Massachusetts Women's College Cancels THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES for Transgender Students
A women's college in Massachusetts has announced the cancellation of its annual theatrical production, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES.
A student theatre organization at Mount Holyoke College made the executive decision to cancel their Valentine's Day show in order to not offend transgender students. The cancellation of the 20-year tradition came about following a student survey regarding the production.
Written by Eve Ensler, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES depicts short stories dealing with female issues such as sex, love, and violence.
The students' intention is to pen their own monologues to include transgender characters.
Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women. Mount Holyoke is renowned for educating women leaders, from medical pioneers to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights.
Mount Holyoke College is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review Guide's 2011 edition of its annual guidebook, The Best 373 Colleges. Mount Holyoke ranked first in the category of "best classroom experience," and was highly rated in other categories, including "most politically active students" (#3), "most beautiful campus" (#7), and "school runs like butter (#9).
Our 2,183 students hail from 47 states and 78 countries. Twenty percent of MHC students are international citizens, and 34 percent of domestic students identify as African American, Asian American, Latina, Native American, or multiracial. Sixty-two percent of incoming first-year students were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes.
Source: Fox News
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