Yoni Ki Baat is a growing collection of authentic, bold, vivid, tender, powerful, and poignant stories told by South Asian women. YKB acknowledges that female sexuality is an essential aspect of identity, experience and expression. This transformative space encourages South Asian women to express their challenges, hopes, dreams, breakdowns, breakthroughs, and aspirations for change on behalf of their bodies.
“Yoni Ki Baat" is back for its 7th fabulous show in Seattle and this year we want to do things differently because we are all wickedly funny and not afraid of laughter. Near the end of her life, Lucille Ball told her audience, at the Kennedy Center: “I’m not funny. My writers were funny. My direction was funny. The situations were funny. But I am not funny. What I am is brave.”
We want to see our brave women step up and help us crack up! We want this year's YKB to focus on the funny side of our experiences, no matter how uncomfortable or angry they may have made us at the time. As we know, the redemptive qualities of humor can heal and bring about poetic justice.
Seattle’s Yoni Ki Baat has taken a creative life of its own in a unique space of sharing and community through sourcing and presenting true stories from local South Asian women. Each year our narratives shed light on the special challenges and opportunities experienced in the South Asian socio-cultural context, whether in native lands or in adopted homelands. Acknowledging female sexuality as an essential aspect of identity, experience and expression, this transformative space encourages South Asian women to express their challenges, hopes, dreams, breakdowns, breakthroughs, and aspirations for change on behalf of their bodies.
Inspired by Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, Yoni Ki Baat was originally started by South Asian Sisters, a progressive collective of South Asian women based in San Francisco area in 2003. Today, Yoni Ki Baat is performed across the United States by South Asian women telling authentic, bold, vivid, tender, powerful and poignant stories. 5% of the ticket sales will be donated to API Chaya.