I could've been that young girl being mutilated had I been born on a different continent, I could've been that young woman being burnt alive had I been born a little earlier, I could've been that child bride. I don't think we truly realise how astronomically close we came to being subjected to such atrocities and avoided them only by chance, but for some of us these practices are a reality, some of us have gone through all the horrors we can think of for no other reason than their biology and their misfortune. (and of course we might not be excused of them for the remaining rest of our lives, safety is not guaranteed no matter where you live) I never want to hear somebody say that feminism is no longer needed.


















