Asking Women To Rise Is Pretentious

Unless you brave it yourself

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What do you know about Mauritania and its women? Probably as much as I do, which is close to nothing. But that has changed.

Today, I stumbled across an eye-opening article concerning the deplorable situation of women in this West African country. More specifically, of teenage women and girls. I learned about the barbaric practice…