Listener Stories: How Somali Women Are Surviving Organized, Targeted, Patriarchal Crime

This was awesome podcast and thanks Maya and team to bring awareness about FGM. I hope this series of bringing different perspectives to the podcast will continue!

Maya, thank you for everything you shared. Your eloquence and even some humor in the face of atrocities is a testament to your fortitude and wisdom. You are right, education is so key. Good to hear you’re moving on. May you have freedom, choice and autonomy.

Thank you so much for this episode. It was AMAZING! Maya is so witty and funny and she really shed the light on what’s going on in other communities.

Thank you for also reiterating the importance of pursuing education and not letting the physical nonsense get in the way. I recently had a guy call me a loser and said “you live with your sister and you’re only a medical student, maybe that’s why money matters so much to you.” After I called him out for only getting his mother flowers for her birthday. I often find myself feeling distracted because I sometimes get lonely as a 29 year old single woman. However this episode helped me get my head back in the game.

Thanks for the great episode and shout out to us women out here trying to better ourselves so we can have a comfortable and happy future. ❤️❤️🥳

Maya is so right about the West. The West is so stupid for pretending sex-based issues are a thing of the past or a non-existent issue. Complete idiots.

Thank you so much Maya for bringing more awareness to FGM.

Great podcast, I had no idea the depths of some of these men (like them orchestrating rape of smart intelligent women who reject them, in order to ruin her future prospects). Straight up men should not be accepted as refugees unless they can unequivocally PROVE they are not a threat and can assimilate to progressive values. Wish we could just send all backwards men to their own little island so they can waste away in violence and poverty on their own.

Wait, where is Lilith?

Bringing up FGM in america is always met with "but it's their culture we can't judge!" And "males get circumcised toooooo"

Honestly if you can listen to what FGM actually is and how horrific it is and STILL try to defend those monsters then only a firing squad can fix you

It was really good to hear from Maya. I've come across strong Somali women growing up and they always look like they have their shit together compared to the men.

this was very eye-opening, not only to how different it is in the US, but also to how there is a version of what is happening to Somalia in every culture...and how there aren't any men anywhere organizing efforts to combat this kind of abuse. tell your bros to chill the eff out, bros.