Lessons From My Daughter
…adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief.
Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.
Tag: Children’s Rights
Whats happening with Meena?
It would be irresponsible to interfere with an ongoing court case, so I wouldn’t want to do that.
Night Terrors
…we were all told not to speak of it.
But in the night, these memories haunt, lips sealed, we see each other different.
Why I Would Not Wear A Mini In Town
. To know, that that act was possible, and in plain view of other human beings, has broken me in ways that I’m yet to learn how to express.
The Patience For Inspiration/ Will You Judge?
. The morality of victim is always called into question. I think my story, can easily be summed up as ‘alijipeleka’
To Silence
In our ideology of morality,
Silence is the right answer.
Breast
So, while the NAN can tells me,
that mothers milk is best.
It’s not accepted, in public,
For me to pull out my breast…
Throwing stones
It’s 3:00am, and I can’t get back to sleep. My mind is preoccupied by young faces from yet another FGM Kenya documentary I put myself through yesterday. It is not a hidden fact, that the age for circumcision is getting younger and younger. Perhaps its in order to combat the increasing awareness of…