[2] Through V-Day, activists stage royalty free, benefit performances of The Vagina Monologues "to fund local programs, support safe houses, rape crisis centers, and domestic violence shelters, change laws to protect women and girls, and educate local communities to raise awareness and change social attitudes toward violence against women"[2] during the month February, with most of the benefit productions taking place on or about February 14.
"[2] Since its inception, the movement has expanded its use of art and activism to include screenings and reading—most notably of the documentary V-Day: Until the Violence Stops (2004) and the compilation A Memory, Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer.
Marches and festivals that have been held as part of the movement include UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS: NYC (June 2006), and the ten-year anniversary V TO THE TENTH at the Louisiana Superdome and New Orleans Arena in 2008.
V-Day also launched the Karama program in the Middle East and coordinated community briefings on the missing and murdered women of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
V-Day included the first ever all transgender version of The Vagina Monologues in 2004, with a performance by eighteen notable trans women under the mentoring of Jane Fonda and Andrea James of Deep Stealth Productions.
It was then estimated that $80 million had been raised since the movement's inception with over 12,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in The Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Egypt and Iraq receiving funding.
[5] The organization seeks to strengthen existing anti-violence efforts by raising money and consciousness, and to lay the groundwork for new educational and protective legislative endeavours for women throughout the world.
After five years of local activists attempting to promote awareness about the violence, V-Day finally put a spotlight on the incident and made it a global issue.
After this critique was published, many performances of The Vagina Monologues began advocating for the Intersex Society of North America by providing literature at the plays and urging the audience to donate.