Lessons From My Daughter
…adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief.
Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.
…adults, to be kind to themselves, choose disbelief.
Choose not to hear, while children, brave their worst fears.
with their husbands names,
hidden under their teeth…
. The morality of victim is always called into question. I think my story, can easily be summed up as ‘alijipeleka’
Ariel was my role model,
If she could become human,
Then I could be a little mermaid.
And true loves kiss could save me from anything!
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…
My face has mountains and Valleys, lush, life giving terrain. Seeds latent, waiting for rain. You come to me, speaking in languages that I don’t understand until I feel them. But those are just stories I hear. First I must be silent inside. We must slice, from my temple down. On either…