Ebook: Slut: a play and guidebook for combating sexism and sexual violence

Why StopSlut? / Jennifer Baumgardner -- Reality check from young voices -- Why SLUT? Theater as activism / Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney -- SLUT : the play / Katie Cappiello -- Production notes -- Discussion questions -- Slut in the age of the Internet / Leora Tanenbaum -- Who really benefits from slut shaming? / Duane de Four -- My story : shaming and assault in the queer community / John Kelly -- An open letter from black women to the SlutWalk / Farah Tanis -- Slut on the Latina body / Veronica Arreola -- When cyberbullies attack, teen girls will fight back : a countermeme / Jamia Wilson -- Dress codes or how schools skirt around sexism and homophobia / Soraya Chemaly -- Decoding Title IX / Sarah Rankin -- The global slutting of female sexuality : an interview with Yasmeen Hassan / The Arts Effect All-Girl Theater Company -- Teaching SLUT : empowering students to understand slut shaming and rape culture / Ileana Jiménez -- It's time to StopSlut / Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney -- Vive la girl résistance! An afterword with Carol Gilligan / Jennifer Baumgardner.;""SLUT is truthful, raw, and immediate! Experience this play and witness what American young women live with everyday."--Gloria Steinem - Remember the slut at your school? Whether used as a slur or reclaimed as an expression of sexy confidence, this word has been used as an acceptable excuse for rape, bullying, and the sexual double standard. In the spirit of The Vagina Monologues, this riveting, critically acclaimed play, written in collaboration with New York City high school students, sheds light on enduring feminist issues. The play is accompanied by production notes, a guide for talk-backs, and provocative essays by Carol Gilligan, Jennifer Baumgardner, and Jarrod Chin of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), among others, providing the resources to inspire change within our communities and ourselves. Katie Cappiello and Meg McInerney are the creative director and managing director of the revolutionary feminist acting school The Arts Effect. In their ten years of teaching, they have brought theater arts programming to public, private, and special education schools worldwide. Their work has been hailed by Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler, Kathy Najimy, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Tina Fey, and Amy Poehler, and they have been honored by The National Women's Hall of Fame and The United States Congress for their dedicated, cutting-edge work empowering young girls. Jennifer Baumgardner is the executive director of The Feminist Press at CUNY as well as an author, activist, and filmmaker."--