Thread by @monaeltahawy

#Egypt now has the region’s first ever multidisciplinary center for #FGM survivors, where services include clitoral reconstruction surgery and therapy. Thank you @SanamF24 for highlighting co-founder Dr. Reem Awwad’s work to help survivors and #EndFGM

So many women I love in #Egypt - in my extended family and outside of it - have been subjected to the torture that is female genital mutilation/cutting. It crushes my heart.
And so I am so glad to know of the work of Dr. Reham Awwad and the centre she co-founded to help survivors

"We have 40 million women in #Egypt who are victims of #FGM and who have nowhere to seek treatment," Dr. Reham Awwad, plastic and restorative surgeon on why she co-founded Restore FGM. #EndFGM

“We provide genital restorative surgeries, non surgical therapies as well as psychological therapy because it’s v important to take the woman as a whole & try to heal her because FGM affects her on several different levels, not just physical level but also psychological level”

I wrote this in 2016: Something that hurts so many girls and women is kept silent and taboo because it has to do with our vaginas and with sex theguardian.com/society/2016/a…

And this in 2014: We need nothing short of a recognition that ending FGM is part of the...revolution that we began in Egypt in January 2011...those chants of our revolution are essentially demands for autonomy and consent — for all. nytimes.com/2014/11/17/opi…