🏅 Victory day ♀️ Anti-violence movement

V-day

7.2

A global movement that works to end violence against women and girls

noun
/viː-deɪ/

: Día V

Every year local activists organize a V-day march and performances supporting survivors.

Examples

The university hosted a V-day benefit reading and talk to educate students about consent.
She joined V-day to help raise funds for survivors of gender-based violence.
Join us on V-day!
Every year, we celebrate V-day to raise awareness about violence against women.
She joined V-day to help raise funds for survivors of gender-based violence.
The university hosted a V-day benefit reading and talk to educate students about consent.
Every year local activists organize a V-day march and performances supporting survivors.

Surface Forms

V-day singular

V-days plural

Morphology

V-day = V + day (opaque) = V + day

Although the name contains 'V' and 'day', the activism-brand sense is not transparently built from those parts for an ordinary learner.

Etymology

V-day for the movement was started by writer Eve Ensler and uses the letter V to link to 'Valentine', to her play The Vagina Monologues, and to 'victory' over violence. So V-day now names events that raise money and speak out to stop violence against women and girls.