I was told I was a coward if I resisted female genital mutilation. For decades since then, I have worked, and risked everything, to protect other girls
was 14 when my mother and grandmother 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.
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