What Had Happened Was Episode 4: Why the Vagina Tree was way more controversial than we thought. - a podcast by Dayton.com

We knew the Yellow Springs vagina tree was controversial, but grrrrrrrrrl was it ever.

Amelia Robinson caught up with the ladies behind one of the most talked about stories of 2017 for the latest edition of the What Had Happened Was podcast.She chatted with the vagina tree’s creators Kate Hamilton, Corrine Bayraktaroglu and Karen Jane Russell, before Bayraktaroglu hightailed it out of the area for a new journey in Arizona.

As you may remember, the vagina tree caused all sorts heated debate on Dayton.com’s Facebook page with some people not understanding why anyone would put felt vaginas in a perfectly innocent tree.The artist collectively called Viva La Vulve and The Craftivism Sisterhood of Yellow Springs explain the whys as part of this new podcast episode.

You might also remember that the vagina tree was infiltrated by a man packing felt penises.As it turns out the man with the felt penises was not the only one who took offense to the vagina tree. As the craftivist explain, he was just the tip of the iceberg.

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