Uploaded December 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Bodies of Revolution: Women Rise Against the Violence of Police, States & Empire was presented live at Columbia Law school on 5 Dec, 2015 by One Billion Rising, the African American Policy Forum, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies. The two panels were moderated by Laura Flanders, of The Laura Flanders Show. For more information on the event, visit onebillionrising.org/bodiesofrevolution
Monique Wilson is one of the Philippine’s veteran theatre and film actresses – having acted professionally since the age of nine. At 18 she starred as the lead role in the original London West End production of Miss Saigon. In 1994, at 24 years old, she went back to the Philippines and founded the New Voice Company (NVC) theatre group, with a vision to awaken, inspire and transform Philippine audiences with socially provocative and innovative political theatre work. Her theatre group has produced The Vagina Monologues in the Philippines since 2000 and V-Day events since 2001, and helped change the laws on sex trafficking and domestic violence with performances in the Philippine Senate and Congress. Monique recently left a five year post as head of the MA/MFA Acting International course, which she spearheaded, at the East 15 Acting School in London – where she trained postgraduate international actors from over 45 countries, and where she organized V-Day events and directed political plays, to become Director of the One Billion Rising campaign.
Bodies of Revolution: Women Rise Against the Violence of Police, States & Empire was presented live at Columbia Law school on 5 Dec, 2015 by One Billion Rising, the African American Policy Forum, and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies. The two panels were moderated by Laura Flanders, of The Laura Flanders Show. For more information on the event, visit onebillionrising.org/bodiesofrevolution
Monique Wilson is one of the Philippine’s veteran theatre and film actresses – having acted professionally since the age of nine. At 18 she starred as the lead role in the original London West End production of Miss Saigon. In 1994, at 24 years old, she went back to the Philippines and founded the New Voice Company (NVC) theatre group, with a vision to awaken, inspire and transform Philippine audiences with socially provocative and innovative political theatre work. Her theatre group has produced The Vagina Monologues in the Philippines since 2000 and V-Day events since 2001, and helped change the laws on sex trafficking and domestic violence with performances in the Philippine Senate and Congress. Monique recently left a five year post as head of the MA/MFA Acting International course, which she spearheaded, at the East 15 Acting School in London – where she trained postgraduate international actors from over 45 countries, and where she organized V-Day events and directed political plays, to become Director of the One Billion Rising campaign.
