Miami Screenings Were Amazing

Turns out my host is far more nuanced and cool then she came off on the phone... she's super progressive, her Canarsie Brooklyn parents sat in the first row and debated the audience all about sex loudly afterwards... both screenings were amazing.

I was terrified that someone would hate me and yell at me, so I had my camera poised. The first crowd were undergrads who were cute and young, and responsive. I am now connected with a co-founder of NOW because she snowbirds in Sarasota.

Tonight's screening blew me away -- the level of engagement and honsety these kids had. There were several men there, they were vocal and supportive. I had four women disclose that they were victims, publically, so clearly the level of honesty in the film is allowing people to be totally honest with me. I'm soaking it up -- they had great questions, about the Law, about my relatinship to Israel, about why I doubt myself -- if I still doubt myself, how wil I portray the rape? All kinds of great questions.

The photo montage in the beginning -- where I put myself out there, the tits, the drugs and the promiscuity is so strong -- its what is really allowing people to talk freely.

What was amazing is that there was a man there who realized something he had never understood. Because the problem is so endemic, and women were speaking freely, it came out that many women in the room had been raped or had friends or family that had been raped. He not only for the first time understood the enormity of the problem, but he understood that he probably and most certainly knew men who committed rape. I think by having my perpetrator on the screen, you get a picture of who the man is, what kind of man he is, and he is humanized -- so then you can imagine one of your friends having done the same thing.

The Hillel director was thrilled -- both nights they said their students never talk -- and they almost didn't let me leave tonight.

Inspiring! And I will be in Nevada in MAY -- the PIMP SAID YES!!