FGM/C Shifting Sands

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Colonial Legacies in 'FGM'

The Princess, the Witch and the Fairy Godmother: Colonial Legacies in ‘FGM’

June 26, 2024 Comments Off on The Princess, the Witch and the Fairy Godmother: Colonial Legacies in ‘FGM’

In this interesting, controversial and provocative paper

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Celebrated FGM specialist suspended from NMC register

Celebrated FGM specialist suspended

June 24, 2024 Comments Off on Celebrated FGM specialist suspended

World-renowned specialist midwife and female genital mutilation (FGM) campaigner Comfort Momoh

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Are designer vaginas & FGM the same?

Are designer vaginas and female genital mutilation the same?

June 13, 2024 Comments Off on Are designer vaginas and female genital mutilation the same?

Reader, what does ‘mutilation’ mean?

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Questioning the anti-FGM movement

Questioning the anti-FGM movement

June 25, 2023 Comments Off on Questioning the anti-FGM movement

Mamasa Camara talks about her research and activism in regard to FGM and women’s health in the Gambia.

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Is trans surgery just state-sanctioned mutilation?

Is trans surgery just state-sanctioned mutilation?

June 27, 2022 Comments Off on Is trans surgery just state-sanctioned mutilation?

Brendan O’Neill spiked’s chief political writer recently published this insightful piece.

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Gender equality in Abrahamic circumcision – why or why not?

Gender equality in Abrahamic circumcision – why or why not?

March 7, 2022 Comments Off on Gender equality in Abrahamic circumcision – why or why not?

A recently published issue of Global Discourse uses Professor Richard Shweders essay

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I have always believed she was innocent and overcharged

“I always believed Dr Nagarwala was innocent and overcharged”

February 21, 2022 Comments Off on “I always believed Dr Nagarwala was innocent and overcharged”

A criminal defence lawyer asserted this when she wrote the following

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FGM sentence suspended for young mother

Lisbon Court suspended sentence for mother convicted of FGM

September 25, 2021 Comments Off on Lisbon Court suspended sentence for mother convicted of FGM

Lisbon Court suspends sentence to woman convicted of FGM.

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FGM: a cause célèbre

FGM: Perils of a cause célèbre

May 25, 2021 Comments Off on FGM: Perils of a cause célèbre

A patronising and draconian response to FGM risks victimising women who have already been abused writes Ella Whelan.

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Am I a victim?

Am I a victim?: My experience with female circumcision

December 17, 2020 Comments Off on Am I a victim?: My experience with female circumcision

This poem, by Malaysian born Idura Hisham, concluded a blog written by her,

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