Mariya – Extended Cut
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Featuring never-before-heard scenes and a post-award interview with Mariya Karimjee, this is an extended version of the award winning documentary, “Mariya.” A story about Mariya’s journey to figure out sex after FGM.
Released in May 2016, “Mariya” received the Gold Award (Best Documentary) at the Third Coast International Audio Festival.
Mariya Karimjee is a writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. Read her original essay here.
Editorial support from Brendan Baker, Allen Watts, Kelsey Padgett, Samara Breger and Nadia Bajwa. Additional support from Kari June.
Another version of this story can be heard on This American Life.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Maddie Kelly. I'm a writer and comedian and along with my co-host, Mark |
| 0:04.6 | Chavez, and Ryan Biel. We are setting out to write a romantic comedy movie script that |
| 0:09.5 | is genuinely romantic and actually funny. |
| 0:12.9 | Give me something that's both sexy and romantic. |
| 0:15.6 | LaCrosse. The sport. |
| 0:18.2 | And when we run into trouble, we'll get help from some serious rom-com experts. People |
| 0:22.3 | who have worked on everything from 10 things I hate about you to Mamma Mia. |
| 0:25.5 | This is all gold. |
| 0:27.7 | It's Let's Bake a Rom-com. |
| 0:29.4 | Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome to the heart. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm Caitlin Prest. |
| 0:41.3 | Every year there is this magical audio festival called the Third Coast International |
| 0:47.3 | Audio Festival, where the best work in the industry gets recognized. |
| 0:55.0 | Meetra and I go every year and this year we came back with gold. |
| 1:01.2 | Like the best documentary of the year, gold. |
| 1:05.1 | The piece that we won for was the one that we worked on with Maria Karimji about her |
| 1:10.0 | personal experience of pursuing a sex life after FGM. |
| 1:16.6 | Her story that was originally published under the title Damage has gone farther than any |
| 1:21.2 | of us could have ever hoped. |
| 1:23.8 | Not only did it go on to this American life, an award, a book deal for Maria, but publishing |
| 1:30.9 | this story propelled Maria into being a resource in her community and beyond her community |
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