This weekend is all about Superlove in New Orleans.

Celebrating 10 years of V-Day, hundreds of women and men from all around the world are gathering this weekend in New Orleans for V to the 10th . V to the 10th is a celebration of V-Day, a call to arms, a call to an end to global violence, a call to help New Orleans and the women of New Orleans, a celebration of the anti-violence work achieved in the last 10 years by thousands of activists all around the world.

In February Eve Ensler, founder and creator of The Vagina Monologues told DemocracyNow.org , the play "looks at how we tell our biographies through our vagina".

Ain't that the truth.

How many of us are disconnected from our vaginas? From our bodies? We manufactur our bodies, make ourselves over, commercialize, and easily disassociate from our bodies. Our bodies belong to the world - to the magazines, the fashion designers, the cosmetic companies, the botox technicians, the menstrual product monopoly, the laws of our countries that are are anti-women. What happens when we take the time to tell our stories through our vaginas?

This year I spoke with a woman who went to see The Vagina Monologues for the first time all by herself. She sat in the audience alone, taking in the play, not knowing what to expect. She expected a play. Not the range of emotions that was displayed on stage. When she left the show, she said she had to get out of there quickly for the overwhelming range of emotions was something she wasn't sure how to deal with or expected. She cried, and yet she didn't know why.

What happens when we really take the time to think about our own individual biographies through the context of our vaginas, or our bodies? What does that mean for us, how would our biography change?

V to the 10th marks 10 years of change for thousands of women around the world - but there's so much more to do. Here's to another 10 years of work by V-Day.

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