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shawnmooney
Do They Hear You When You Cry | Fauziya Kassindja
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https://youtu.be/B7MLDWAINXY?si=PK0YQLuLt8PdOUoV

Chatting about:
‘A brief cultural history of crying while reading‘ by Janet Manley - on LitHub: https://lithub.com/a-brief-cultural-history-of-crying-while-reading/

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BookwormM
Do They Hear You When You Cry | Fauziya Kassindja
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#ReadAroundtheWorld #Togo

A powerful story about how the USA treated female refugees and how one girls case lead to a reform in thinking.

Full review and facts about Togo here https://thereadersroom.org/2019/12/21/read-around-the-world-togo/hickleberrypunc...

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Currey
Do They Hear You When You Cry | Fauziya Kassindja
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#readingaroundtheworld #Togo My December Book on Togo did give me an intimate glimpse of life in a small tribal town in that African country. However, the story is largely the drama of a young girl running away from a forced polygamous marriage to an old man and from the FGM he insisted upon. Most of the book details the horrors of the US immigration detention system which treats asylum seekers like criminals and her lawyers fight to free her.

rockpools I‘m glad it was a pick! Hoping to read this in the quiet days after Christmas (cos they exist, don‘t they?!) 4y
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charissharpe
The War on Women | Sue Lloyd Roberts
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Started this today, I think it's going to be a chapter at a time kind of read. Straight in at the deep end with chapter one being on #FGM. One to read bit by bit and process. When the subject matter is so outside the realms of anything you personally have encountered it is worth thinking about before reading more. Alternating with some fiction, The Essex Serpent.
#feminism #feministbookclub #womensstudies #bookish #amreading #bookworm

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lucymuse
The River Between | Ngugi wa Thiong'o
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brilliant book looking at Gikuyu ttibal politics - having just read a book on #fgm it's i teredting to read a novel that recognises its cultural weight (but i think in a equitable manner). #kenya #readingafrica #gikuyu