Blog #7
“I had learned that prayer was what kept me going, enabling me to see beyond the grim gray walls of this place I was forced to call home.” (2)
“I’ve heard that during the procedure, four women spread your legs wide apart and hold you down so that you can’t move. And then, the eldest woman takes a knife that is used to cut hair and scrapes your woman parts off. There are no painkillers, no anesthesia. The knife isn’t sterilized. Afterward, the women wrap your legs from your hips to your knees and you have to stay in bed for forty days so the wound can close. After the forty days, you are “reborn” for your husband, and delivered to his house to begin your new life as his wife.” (3)
“My family was very religious but not as strict as some others, so my sisters and I wore short skirts-not real short, but up to the knee- and some of the old people disapproved. They called us modern children. “Oh these modern children, what’s happening to the young people today” They walk around naked.”"(11)
Kassindja, Fauziya, and Layli Miller Bashir.
