![]() ![]() I write because I want to give a long-overdue voice to a community that has experienced a tremendous array of challenges but who constantly face these challenges with the most wicked sense of humour, humility and dignity. I do this because the media representation of the global Somali community is one that is carved out of derivative clichés crammed with pirates, warlords, passive women and girls whose entire existence seems to be nothing more than a footnote on the primitive dangers of FGM. But my primary interest is in representing the complex but universal experience of Somalis. ![]() Who do I write for? I thought about this again and again over the next few days until the answer crystalized in my consciousness. As I sat on the bus, however, I gave the question serious consideration. ![]()
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