On Sunday evening, Goshen Monologues hosted its twelfth annual performance in the Church Chapel. Centered on the feminine experience, the Monologues committee collects anonymously submitted stories, and then holds an open casting call to find people to perform those stories. At the beginning of the show, members of the Monologues committee asked that the audience not clap in between pieces. Madeline Bollinger, a senior elementary education major and member of the Monologues committee, shared her thoughts on this practice. “I like to think of it as leaving some silence and space for people to consider what they’ve just heard and...

By Annabelle Bartz • March 13, 2025 • News

Last Sunday, Monologues took the stage for the 11th year in a row, as Goshen College students performed stories from around the GC community highlighting the feminine experience. Mariela Esparza is a senior English major who served on the committee, and remembered how the language used has changed over the years.  “Monologues started as a space for people whose biological sex was female,” Esparza said. “It was really only last year on the committee that we decided, ‘hey, we have to really think about our language.’ Before our language was ‘female identifying,’ and then we changed to ‘feminine identifying.’” For...

By Tyson Miller • March 14, 2024 • News

A group of students identifying with the feminine experience performed at the 10th annual Goshen Monologues last Saturday, sharing powerful stories about relationships, privilege, campus dynamics and identity.  Goshen Monologues began in 2014 and was initially inspired by The Vagina Monologues, a 1996 episodic play by Eve Ensler that explores sexuality, body image and femininity. The student-led tradition has continued every year since then. Ceramic mugs were made by students Brandon Jimenez and Simon Hertzler Gascho and given to the Monologues cast to recognize the significance of the 10th anniversary. The performance occurred in the Church-Chapel, where the mood was...

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