Jessica Wynn

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1378: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) | Skeptical Sunday · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

And there's a long history of large amounts of money going to large international organizations.

And then, you know, a trickle reaching the grassroots groups that are actually doing the work.

But survivor led organizations, community based activists, local women's movements, these groups, unfortunately, they're chronically underfunded, while these institutional machinery around them is very well resourced.

And some anti FGM campaigns have, consciously or not, portrayed African cultures as, you know, savage and in need of civilizing from the outside.

That framing's not just offensive, it's totally counterproductive because it triggers entirely rational resistance from communities that have experienced colonialism and know exactly what that civilizing rhetoric sounds like.

Absolutely.

The answer is to fund local women's organizations, to let these communities lead.

To listen African feminists and survivor advocates who are fighting this battle from the inside.

So many have lived with the consequences of FGM themselves or they've spent their lives working in the communities where it persists.

And that kind of lived experience and local credibility is something no international organization can just, you know, parachute in.

So the goal's the same, ending FGM.

The question is who's leading the effort?

And the evidence is very clear that community led locally owned campaigns are the ones that actually produce durable change.

God, I can't I it's so hard to think about.

I think the most difficult part about survivors is that not all FGM survivors identify as victims and not all of them want it to end.

That's what happens in your world and you know no different.

I mean, there are women who have undergone FGM, including the type three infibulation, with that most severe form.

Who will describe the experience as meaningful, identity affirming, and culturally central to who they are?

So they express pride in having undergone it, and they want their daughters to undergo it.

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