Clitoraid

A new charity lets you “adopt a clitoris” and help a woman who was genitally mutilated pay for surgery to have her clitoris rebuilt. It sounds totally absurd but it’s for a good cause! If you read Alice Walker in middle school like we did, the atrocities of genital mutilation should be an issue particular dear to your hearts, too.

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  • Clitoraid's campaign urges supporters adopt African women's clitorises is completely humiliating to me as an African woman! According to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Clitoraid has successfully mobilized over U.S.$120,000 from U.S. supporters alone in support for their demeaning clitoris adoptions. They have raised even more in countries like France and Australia.
    Clitoraid is a project of the Raelian movement (http://www.clitoraid.org/page.php?2). A UFO religion that believes that all life on Earth was created in scientific labs by a species of extraterrestrials. Their previous venture, Clonaid was met with a kind of skepticism that Clitoraid has not.  Feminists Challenging Clitoraid is a group mobilizing a vocal challenge to the humiliating and racist exploitation of the issue of Female Circumcision for dubious fundraising purposes and we could really use your support. In response to Good Vibration's recent dismissal of our challenge (http://wp.me/pLcYS-20) we are calling for reinforcements and we need you to lend your voice in pushing back. Instead of supporting Clitoraid please support any of the numerous African women's organizations who have been mobilizing around the issue for generations. Supporting a cult is not the same as supporting African women's own initiatives! This is not to encourage the continuation of Female Circumcision! It is a call for all of us to respect African women when addressing this important issue.

    wanjiru
    2 years ago
  • wanjiru
    2 years ago

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