This powerful spoken word performance, written by Eve Ensler and performed by Rosario Dawson, describes a revolution for “all that are life and give life.” The speaker describes this revolution as starting in the body and moving outward, placing women and Mother Earth at its center as it imagines a socially just world apart from the brutality of patriarchy and extraction. This is not a violent revolution, but a revolution against the violence perpetuated by capitalist, colonial, and heteropatriarchal systems that work to disempower women and destroy the planet. The speaker resists these systems and asserts that our “divisions are diversions.” She challenges women to stand together in connection with Mother Earth to build a better world.
