Kate C. describes her first true encounter with her "croth-Cthulu."

The Vagina Monologues has been performed at Cornell for the past 11 years as part of V-Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. While V-Day promotes creative events to raise awareness about these issues, a new debate over the performance space has taken center stage.

The Vagina Monologues is a compilation of numerous monologues, each relating to the vagina, read by a varying number of women.

Facing opposition: Vagina Monologues executive director Julie Cantor ’09, left, and artistic director Liana Mancini ’09, who is also a Sun columnist, stand outside of Sage Chapel.

To the Editor:

Re: “Ahhh! Real Pussy Monsters Attack!,” News, Feb. 19

For most of the eight years I have been Director of Cornell United Religious Work, the Vagina Monologues have been held at the Anabel Taylor Auditorium because CURW supports the message and advocacy on behalf of women integral to the Monologues. In an academic environment that prizes free inquiry and a broad spectrum of ideas, the Vagina Monologues — which challenge traditional views of sexuality — provide an important voice to campus and community discourse. Hosting this event in the Anabel Taylor Auditorium reflects the CURW commitment to contributing to the educational mission and intellectual life of Cornell University.

This column is not about sex. But it is about vaginas. So I guess it’s about sex insofar as sometimes vaginas are involved in sex. I know I already spent time pontificating on my love for the vagina’s northern cousins, but this won’t be that kind of column either. This is a column about pussy monsters.

Maybe you’ve heard of a little production called The Vagina Monologues, a play in which pussy monsters are glorified in all sorts of terrible ways. You got ladies talking about touching and loving their pussy monsters. You got ladies talking about what their pussy monsters would wear or say. Most importantly, you got ladies talking about how pussy monsters around the world are being badly hurt — shit that has got to stop.