Hi, folks.
It's not everyday that you get an email with the subject line: "Vagina songs?"
But with the Republican War on Women, the silencing of Reps. Lisa Brown & Barb Bynum for saying the "V" word in the Michigan House of Representatives, the vast range of anti-abortion bills, from forced ultrasound to fetal personhood, cropping up all over the country, the vitriolic hyperbole against the extension of women's reproductive health care that we all received via the Affordable HeathCare Act yesterday, etc. etc., the concept is just that much more . . . likely.
So on Monday, when our friend & co-director of CodePink, Rae Abileah wrote asking if we knew any songs to fit the theme of "Bring Your Vagina to the RNC", their upcoming demonstration in Tampa with Eve Ensler's V-Day, Pat instantly thought, "Let's just write one." So, she did.
Pat wrote "Take Your Vagina to the RNC!" on Tuesday afternoon and, that evening, we recorded it, posted it on our YouTube Channel and started to put out the word.
Almost immediately, we got cheers from folks on our FaceBook page and hilarious comments like Geoffrey's "I would if I could!" (to which Sandy replied, "Check out this picture on the Codepink website. You can bring an honorary one!) and our former housemate, Alice's "I never leave home without mine." Our assistant Maria reposted the song and got this response from a Canadian cousin: "haha I don't know what RNC is but I totally wanna take my vagina there just because of this song lol awesome"
Rae and CodePink co-founders Medea Benjamin & Jodie Evans were thrilled with the song. And Jodie forwarded it to Eve Ensler, who wrote back--from her extraordinary project in the Congo--"this is hysterical. love it."
