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Lessons From My Daughter

Posted on November 26, 2022 By rayawambui 4 Comments on Lessons From My Daughter
Lessons From My Daughter

…adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief.

Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.

Poetry

Whats happening with Meena?

Posted on December 2, 2016 By rayawambui 1 Comment on Whats happening with Meena?

It would be irresponsible to interfere with an ongoing court case, so I wouldn’t want to do that.

Journaling, Kenyan Mind, Malindi Mentions, Woman in the Two Thousands

Night Terrors

Posted on June 10, 2016 By rayawambui 1 Comment on 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.

Kenyan Mind, Poetry

Why I Would Not Wear A Mini In Town

Posted on August 11, 2015 By rayawambui 2 Comments on 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.

Journaling, Kenyan Mind, Woman in the Two Thousands

The Patience For Inspiration/ Will You Judge?

Posted on July 28, 2015 By rayawambui 12 Comments on 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’

Journaling, Kenyan Mind, Woman in the Two Thousands

To Silence

Posted on July 21, 2015 By rayawambui 2 Comments on To Silence

In our ideology of morality,
Silence is the right answer.

Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

Breast

Posted on June 10, 2015 By rayawambui 3 Comments on 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…

Kenyan Mind, Poetry, Woman in the Two Thousands

Throwing stones

Posted on February 19, 2013 By rayawambui 2 Comments on 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…

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