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title: Who Do We Think We Are?
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Who Do We Think We Are?

This American Life • May 6, 2016

> Soon after returning home from mosque, I had words to describe what I thought had happened to me. Female genital cutting. Female genital circumcision. Clitorectomy. Female genital mutilation, or FGM.  
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> I sat with my copy of "Our Bodies, Ourselves" that my American aunt had given me. The book has photos and diagrams of female genitalia, and suggests using a mirror to be able to see and understand your body better. Locked in my bathroom with a hand mirror between my legs, I realized that there was no diagram in the book that could explain what I saw.

  
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