Thread by @monaeltahawy

Quick answer: no, because FGM aims to control female sexuality and unless you tackle the patriarchy that enables such control and the misogyny that translates it into cutting off parts of the genitals, laws won’t work, as has been clear for years in #Egypt

https://twitter.com/The_NewArab/status/1364272589829525504

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…

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

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1361761455780036612

The centre provides services which include clitoral reconstruction surgery and therapy.

FGM is a form of torture. Therapy is so important for survivors and I hope the centre gets the funding it needs and provides much-needed archives to as many women as possible in #Egypt

#Egypt has the greatest number of women and girls who have been subjected to this crime of FGM in the world.

Fuck virginity, hymens, chastity and "purity" that make parents cut and mutilate their daughters. refworld.org/pdfid/5a17eee4…