Sankofa Summer School: Female Genital Cutting

Female genital cutting is more commonly called female genital mutilation by international organizations such as the World Health Organization and is noted to affect millions of girls around the world. However, an Afrocentric lens provides the analytical space to rethink the referral to the practice of mutilation and how that renders the Black globalized body as alien. Therefore, through this class, we will not only be looking at the process of female genital cutting through a multifaceted lens that humanizes the women and girls involved, but we will also be engaging with theories that provide us with the space to think about why and how the Black body has been rendered alien through an exploration of the connections between Afrofuturism and related topics.