26.06.2021 · In 2013, a doctor was sent to prison for only three months for performing FGM on a 13-year-old girl. Mr Eldanbouki has met the girl’s mother and the doctor who conducted it. “The doctor says there
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews·Female genital mutilation (FGM): ‘I had it, but my daughters won’t’Female genital mutilation (FGM): ‘I had it, but my daughters won’t’Two mothers subjected to FGM tell how they will not let their daughters suffer the same.bbc.com
Many thanks to Peter Jordens for sending these two articles by Kendra Winchester: “6 of the Best Audiobooks by Women for Caribbean Heritage Month” and 6 More of the Best Audiobooks by Women for Caribbean Heritage Month” (Book Riot). I have listed her twelve choices below (ordered alphabetically, by authors’ names); see articles (links below) […]
12 of the Best Audiobooks by Women for Caribbean Heritage Month — Repeating Islands
It’s one of those terrible truths of the world that bad things happen to good people, and the case of Sister Catherine Cesnik is one of those examples. Cesnik was a teacher in Baltimore, attempting to help students who were allegedly being abused. Her murder remains unsolved. For all the press and notoriety that this case would get in the long run, it started out exceedingly normal. According to the Baltimore Sun, as evening fell on November 7, 1969, Sister Catherine Cesnik left her unassuming apartment, heading to the Edmondson Village Shopping Center around 7:30 p.m. As far as her roommate, Sister Helen Russell Phillips, could tell, she was headed out to buy an engagement gift for her sister, as well as run a few errands. Another article put out by the Baltimore Sun tried to paint a clearer image of the evening. At some point, probably the first thing…
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