happened through grass-roots activists in their local communities standing up, finding their vagina warrior power to end violence and take back their bodies. and, you know, i wish you could see some of these women who have been doing the show and doing, you know, v-day for maybe five years-- they're fierce, and they're loving, and they're funny, and they're sexy, and they're alive, and they're into pleasure, and they're running for office. and they're, you know... and they're coming into power in a whole new kind of way. >> hinojosa: well, i guess this leads us into your own story. you were growing up in, what you like to call a wonderfully secure, suburban america-- scarsdale, new york; white picket fence, the whole thing... >> literally. >> hinojosa: literally. but there wasn't a lot of dialogue about what was happening behind that white picket fence. >> no, and i think that's the sham, right? that's the sham. you know, inside my house, you know, i had a father who was, like, a corporate president, and meanwhile, he was violent; he was a perpetrator. my life was completely violent, you know? >>