Results tagged “feminism”

Tonight could have been the night that changed your life. The (International) Noise Conspiracy, "one of the wildest and most uncompromising live acts out there" flying in from Sweden, were to take total charge over the Yuyintang stage, but thanks to certain National Day-flavored machinations, it was cancelled.

China has begun the preliminary stages for selecting its first female astronauts and will formally announce the selection plan by the end of the year, according to China Daily.

China is planning on putting its first woman into space, just months after sending its first women fighter pilots up into the air. According to Yang Wei, China's first astronaut, "I believe Chinese women will be seen in space in the near future." Each astronaut-to-be will undergo two to three years of training and will probably complete their journeys into the great beyond by 2012. As China Daily is wont to do, it included a questionable and unintentionally funny quote about the suitability of women in space. A researcher with the China Academy of Space Technology told the paper that "Women are better at handling loneliness in space where you can only hear the buzzing sound of machines." Yeah, I guess we are pretty good at handling buzzing machines.

Eve Ensler's celebrated play—The Vagina Monologues —is coming to Shanghai. First produced in 1996 and first performed on off-Broadway's Westside Theater and London's West End, the play went on to become a global phenomenon. Each monologue is one woman's story, relating the vagina to sex, love, rape, menstruation, birth and other themes and issues in her life. Translated into at least 45 languages and staged in 120 countries to date, the play is performed as a benefit production around the world as a way to raise money for V-Day, an organization and movement that Ensler founded to help end violence against women.