Thread by @thegirdlengr

My #FGM TORTURE🩸
Agnes Pareyio Recalls Hers:
"I was 14 when my mom and grandma announced that I was going to have my clitoris, my labia majora and my labia minora cut out. They said that if I resisted I was a coward. In my culture, the worst thing you can be called is a coward.

On the day I was mutilated, I was woken up at three in the morning and taken outside, naked, because the villagers believed that if I felt the morning breeze on my body it would cool me and I would bleed less. I saw that the object they would cut me with was not sharp. I was not

offered any anaesthesia, but I was told not to cry – your father is in the house, they said, and he should never hear you cry.
I was determined to show I was not a coward, so I tried very hard not to show any emotion. As a result, I was cut deeper and I could not stop bleeding. I

drifted in and out of consciousness and I was extremely dizzy when I woke up.
What replaces your vulva after FGM is extreme scar tissue.
I was forbidden from putting my legs together, since the scar tissue could fuse. They tied my legs apart with rope so that they would not touch

, even when I slept. I had to remain like that for days as I healed."

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