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Spring 2002, Volume 3, Number 1
 
Focus on SMC
Changing Roles
The Vagina Monologues:
Looked at (and Listened to) by a Male Senior Citizen

My Irish Eyes in Cuba
My Monologue Experience
The Vagina Monologues

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Changing Roles
In the past century, women have broken countless stereotypical barriers and earned a place in the forefront of the American work force. Despite prime examples of this on campus, nowhere is it more prevalent than right in SMC's own police department. Read On

My Irish Eyes In Cuba
Kathy Flynn has been preparing the last twenty years of her life for a quest that has taken her across the globe to an unlikely place. Her adventure and passion for people carried her to Cuba. It was in Cuba where she found part of her roots and became the instrument to reunite a lost and forgotten family.
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My Monologue Experience
Before the show, I had worked with the fervor of a seasoned director, choosing the amber lights to drench the women, the haunting blue to elicit empathy, the shocking red that pungently accentuated my favorite piece "My Angry Vagina". The weeks leading into this were filled with rehearsals, during which we let the material become us...
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The Vagina Monologues
The year I wrestled hardest with emerging memories of molestation was the year I first found the Vagina Monologues. I remember the book as it sat on my bedside table and how its deep red cover shone under the reading lamp, creating a glow that bathed the walls of my bedroom and warmed my bed. Read On

The Vagina Monologues
Looked At (and Listened to) by a Male Senior Citizen

The vagina, a female body part from which I emerged and have spent a significant part of my adult life trying to get back into, was not a normal, usual or "politically correct" topic of conversation during my adolescence, college days or young adulthood. For me, "The Vagina Monologues" is an outstanding example of the major changes that have taken place in our society during the last fifty years.
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