Surviving and Ending FGM with Nimko Ali

Doing It! with Hannah Witton

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Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 651 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, Hannah chats to Nimko Ali, who is the co-founder of The Five Foundation (the Africa-led Partnership To End FGM), and author of the book ‘What we’re told not to talk about (but we’re going to anyway)’. Nimko shares her own experience of FGM, and her work to end FGM worldwide by 2030. They talk about how Nimko’s new book came about, getting the balance between being honest and being safe, and look at how we define FGM. Finally, Hannah and Nimko explore why we need to invest our financial aid in women on the front line of these services.

Nimko: https://twitter.com/nimkoali

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0:00.0	Summers out there.
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0:27.7	Terms and conditions apply.
0:29.8	So there's this level of ownership,
0:31.8	policing how I dress or what I say or what I do.
0:34.6	Like, I wanted to write it as honestly as possible,
0:37.6	but then I also wanted to write it as safely as possible.
0:40.1	And I think the idea of thinking...
0:41.3	No, seriously, the idea of thinking I could be killed is a bit scary.
0:48.7	Welcome to Doing It with me, Hannah Witten,
0:51.4	where we talk all things, sex, relationships, dating and our bodies.
1:00.8	Hi, welcome back. So this week I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with Nimco Alley,
1:07.4	whose book comes out this week. It's called What We're Told Not to Talk About,
1:12.1	but we're going to anyway women's voices from East London to Ethiopia. Now, Nimco is an FGM
1:18.7	survivor and activist working to end FGM. So parts of the conversation that you're about to hear
1:25.4	are quite heavy, but I learned so much from her,
1:29.5	especially about how so many of these issues that we're trying to combat in the world
1:35.3	are all connected. So FGM, poverty, education, capitalism and climate change, all of them are
1:42.4	connected. Nimco and other activists actually have
1:45.9	a tangible plan to end FGM by 2030. So listen up. Also, we talk about her experience
1:53.7	standing for election in 2017 and labiaplasty and male circumcision. We cover so much. Her book is out tomorrow, Thursday the 27th of
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