Episode 175: Naomi Klein & V (formerly Eve Ensler) - Reckoning

V (formerly Eve Ensler), Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues, and Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and international bestselling author, discuss V's new book, Reckoning.

V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is the author of The Apology (now a play set to debut in 2022), the New York Times bestseller I Am an Emotional Creature, the highly praised In the Body of the World, and many more. She is the founder of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, and One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. She is a co-founder of the City of Joy, a revolutionary center for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege. She is one of Newsweek’s “150 Women Who Changed the World” and the Guardian’s “100 Most Influential Women.” She lives in New York.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and international and New York Times bestselling author of Doppelganger, How To Change Everything, On Fire, No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Naomi Klein is a columnist with The Guardian. She is one of the 100 People Who Are Changing America in Rolling Stone, and The New Yorker has described her as “the most visible and influential figure on the American left.” In 2018 she was named the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair at Rutgers University, and is now Honorary Professor of Media and Climate at Rutgers. In September 2021 she joined the University of British Columbia as Professor of Climate Justice (tenured) and co-director of the Centre for Climate Justice.