Tonight is the Show

Night One. Nerves, Excitement. Anxious but determined. See you there. If aren't coming tonight, join us Saturday or Sunday evening.

And join us all day tomorrow for Aaina, South Asian Women's Focus. Movies, Discussions, Sisterhood.

If your yoni could run for president, what would be the first item on her agenda?

Free flowing...If my yoni ran for president, the first item on her agenda would be to make the first day of every women's flow a personal day off. All of the women would be given free massages and as much chocolate as they would need to get through the day. These days would be considered sacred and no one would be allowed to bother these fly free-flowing women. They would be allowed to self-select who they would want to spend time with.

Yoni Ki Baat-Seattle 2010, April 9-10

Don't forget to buy your tickets! Friday night is sold out, Saturday is almostsold out. Sunday is a great, relaxed day to witness the performance. Purchase tickets through Brown Paper tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/104025.

What are some of your yoni's funniest dating stories?

More than just a tweet. The Super Hero Saga revealed. Part 1

My yoni is real chill, but she's an undercover superhero. One time, she was on a date with herself at a dance club. There were some super villians hanging out and trying to sneak up from behind her. They didn't even have the decency to introduce themselves from the front. As soon as one of her favorite songs came on and she started moving to the beats, one of these thugs tried to bring her down. So she threw a gin n tonic in his face and kicked his ass. Boo ya!

Yoni Ki Baat-Seattle 2010, April 9-10

Don't forget to buy your tickets! Friday night is almost sold out, Saturday is almost there too. Sunday is a great, relaxed day to witness the performance. Purchase tickets through Brown Paper tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/104025.

PRESS!!!! Hey Hey!

http://www.iexaminer.org/arts/vagina-monologues/

It's in my body.

All week this week & last week, as I've been in my writing-editing-practicing process, I have felt the tensions in my body. It starts at my neck. It works it's way down my back and lands on my lower spine. A throbbing pain dulls after a few minutes, and heat starts to radiate. It's settled there. It's settled, and not moving. I pray, I hope, I believe, it will release once the performance is over. My story has been told.

Yoni Ki Baat-Seattle 2010, April 9-10

Don't forget to buy your tickets! Friday night is almost sold out, Saturday is almost there too. Sunday is a great, relaxed day to witness the performance. Purchase tickets through Brown Paper tickets http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/104025.

My Yoni's Other Yoni-- (explicit)

For a long time now I've been thinking about yoni-oppression. We seem to have gotten yoni-sisterhood and yoni-power down (heck, we even have a yoni-den) but damn, let's talk about yoni-oppression. It's when women talk SHIZ-NIT against other women! I do it ALL THE TIME and you do it ALL THE FUCKING TIME! I know because you said it to my friend who told that bitch who then went to that whore and told me what your dumbass-face said to me! You bitch!

That's what I mean, ladies - that is oppression in the most freakiest of senses! Don't you see it?! Patriarchy is so good at this kind of shit - it's setup a system so that the men can walk away and make sure their women will never rise above them or push for equality because we’re to fucking busy talking shit about each other. IT’S TRUE! Yeah, you might think I’m radical and I’m a femi-nazi but that doesn’t matter right now. And no I’m not saying men actively plan this shit and want to oppress us (even though some do), but I am saying that maybe you should think of this for just a little longer. Spend less time thinking of “that bitch” as that bitch and more time of thinking about her oppression and how her oppression is speaking out. Tell your men about it too and see what they say – if they don’t agree or don’t even want to think about it. Think twice about them.

Love,

That bitch

Question 3: What is Your Yoni's Bio-Data?

Party Postings in the Comment Box Please

Question 2: What Music Does Your Yoni Make?

My Yoni is a Rhythmic Sponge

My yoni's scientific name is Porifera, which means “pore-bearer”.

Its pores are the experiences it has.

They are also the information that it absorbs.

The ostia and osculum allow things both to go in and out.

My yoni is sessile, rooted to a spot on my body due to my gland cells

Myocytes control my yoni's cell size, just so it don't get *too* crazy (just crazy enough to shout its name to the world)

Epithelial cells line it, as does knowledge.

Spicules form its base, its defense.z

Ectoderm is what it shows my predators.

Endoderm is its true inside that only a select few see and experience

Mesenchyme, the space between my layers is also the connection between them.

It filter-feeds the environment, especially bad language towards yonis everywhere.

My yoni has a variety of body forms, encrusting and vase-like.

The encrusting one takes the shape of my surroundings, and learns from the experience of others

The vase-like one is delicate and sensitive

It is asymmetrical, so my yoni is unique.

My yoni has the ability to soak things up, like experiences, information, and messes. My yoni can resurrect myself. Despite the bad, it can always bring itself together, and become whole again.

My yoni is a sponge.

Satprit K.

Nine Questions for Nine Women

Sisters,

There are nine days before the opening of this year's Yoni Ki Baat. We present nine women from throughout our communities, speaking out against violence, speaking up for the voiceless, speaking up for themselves.

In this, our 5th year performance, we will tackle topics of sex and sexuality, gender and race. Infanticide and other violent acts against women's gender, sex and sexual beings.

While heartfelt and emotional, many bring voices of humor both ironic and blatant.

Follow us here on our blog, on Facebook or on Twitter (NWYoniSpeaks) as we post nine questions over the next nine days to our performers and to you out in the community. We encourage all women, South Asian or not, to respond to the questions. Think of these as writing prompts, of dialogues before the monologues.

Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets.

See you at the show,

Anjulie Ganti, Director

Marriage

Is your family or community desperate to marry you off?

My family and community are both STRONGLY encouraging me to get married! Their worries are two fold. First, if I wait too long I will have become too old and then finding a match will become even harder. Secondly, the longer I wait the more likely I will find someone who is not in my community. In turn they fear I will stop attending functions and stop being an active member of the community. The worst part of it all is that sometimes I feel like a carry a burden of saving my family’s honor. You see, my sister married outside of the community and since that day I feel like I am my parents last hope of restoring their reputation. It sounds like a Bollywood drama, but it is not. It is a reality that many of us still face.

I cannot just place the blame on everyone else. Since I was a little girl I always looked forward to the day when I would have my own husband and kids. This is a dream that I actually look forward to and anxiously await. I guess it’s a combination of the cultural influence and what I want for myself that makes me think this way…but really, doesn’t everybody wonder who there life partner will be sometime or another? Now that I am at that age I am starting to get nervous. Why has that not happened for me? When will it happen for me? I see all my friends beginning to settle down and I sometimes feel like I am still at square one, alone.

So as much as I wish I could say that it was only my family and community who desperately want to see me married off I cannot because it would be a lie. Their desperation only reinforces my own.

--Anonymous