Singing telegrams with a feminist edge
EUGENE, Ore. - The singing telegram, the candy-gram, the cupid-gram.
But the vagina-gram?
“The vagina-grams are something that the students came up with last year to fundraise and bring attention to the Women’s Center and the work that we do,” said Brandy Ota, the director of the University of Oregon’s Women’s Center.
Students, faculty and community member can order vagina-grams. They can be delivered anywhere on campus, be it in the middle of the Erb Memorial Union or the middle of a lecture.
“I’d say for the most part it’s been pretty successful. People find it humorous, and it’s an interesting twist on the old idea around singing telegrams, but it obviously has its feminist edge to it,” said Ota.
“People are typically pretty embarrassed that someone is dressed like a giant vagina and singing to them," said Jennifer Busby, a student who organized this year’s vagina-grams. "but they’re usually pretty good humored about it.”
A vagina-gram costs either $5 or $10, and the money raised goes toward a fundraiser of the Women’s Center’s choosing.
This year the money is going towards Siren, the campus’s oldest and only feminist publication.
