Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment TED

翻译人员: Yumeng Guo 校对人员: Wei Wu

Hi.

大家好。

Today I'm going to share my personal journey

今天我想通过自己的亲身经历，

with female genital mutilation, FGM.

分享一下我对女性割礼（FGM）的看法。

Feel free to cry, laugh, cross your legs,

请放心大胆地大哭，大笑 不要拘束，想盘腿就盘腿，

or do anything your body feels like doing.

舒服就好，

I'm not going to name the things your body does.

你们做什么我都不会有意见。

I was born in Sierra Leone.

我生于塞拉利昂。

Did anybody watch "Blood Diamond"?

有人看过《血腥钻石》这部电影吗？

If you have any thoughts --

如果你有什么打算的话——

I don't have any diamonds on me, by the way.

我身上一颗钻石都没有，顺便说一下。

If you have heard of Ebola, well, that's in Sierra Leone as well.

如果你听说过埃博拉病毒， 塞拉利昂境内也有埃博拉感染案例。

I don't have Ebola. You're all safe.

我不是埃博拉病毒携带者。 你们都很安全。

Don't rush to the door.

不要冲向那扇门。

Be seated. You're fine. I was checked before I got here.

坐着就好。我来这演讲前体检过了。

My grandfather had three wives.

我的祖父有三个妻子。

Don't ask me why a man needs more than one wife.

不要问我为什么一个男人需要很多妻子。

Men, do you need more than one wife?

男人啊，一个妻子真的不够吗？

I don't think so. There you go.

我不这么认为。随他去吧，

He was looking for a heart attack, that's what I say.

他自找心脏病，我就是这么觉得的。

Oh yeah, he was.

哦，好吧，他真的得心脏病了。

When I was three, war broke out in Sierra Leone in 1991.

1991年我三岁时， 塞拉利昂爆发了一场战争。

I remember literally going to bed one night, everything was good.

我清晰地记得，某天晚上当我躺下入睡时， 什么都还没发生。

The next day, I woke up,

第二天，当我醒来时，

bombs were dropping everywhere,

已是硝烟四起，

and people were trying to kill me and my family.

我和我的家人都受到了生命威胁。

We escaped the war and ended up in Gambia, in West Africa.

我们逃亡了，最后到达西非国家冈比亚。

Ebola is there as well. Stay away from it.

那儿也有埃博拉病毒，不要去那。

While we were there as refugees,

身为难民，

we didn't know what was going to become of us.

我们不知道前方等待我们的是什么。

My mom applied for refugee status.

我妈妈申请了我们的难民身份。

She's a wonderful, smart woman, that one,

她是一个不可思议母亲，也很聪明。

and we were lucky.

我们很幸运，

Australia said, we will take you in.

澳大利亚接纳了我们。

Good job, Aussies.

多亏你们了，澳大利亚人。

Before we were meant to travel,

在我们远走他乡之前，

my mom came home one day, and said,

有一天我妈回家后跟我说，

"We're going on a little holiday, a little trip."

「我带你去旅游一下，很近的。」

She put us in a car,

她带我上车，

and we drove for hours and ended up in a bush

几个小时之后，我们到达冈比亚境内

in a remote area in Gambia.

一个偏远的灌木林地带。

In this bush, we found two huts.

丛林中有两个小棚屋。

An old lady came towards us.

一个老女人向我们走来，

She was ethnic-looking, very old.

她像一个原始部落人，非常老。

She had a chat with my mom, and went back.

她跟我妈谈了一会就回来了，

Then she came back and walked away from us into a second hut.

后来不久又离开我们到另一个棚屋里。

I'm standing there thinking,

我站在那儿，不禁想，

"This is very confusing. I don't know what's going on."

「真奇怪，到底要做什么。」

The next thing I knew,

然后，

my mom took me into this hut.

我妈带我走进了那个棚屋。

She took my clothes off,

她脱下我的衣服，

and then she pinned me down on the floor.

然后把我放倒在地上。

I struggled and tried to get her off me, but I couldn't.

我拼命挣扎，想要把她推开， 但无济于事。

Then the old lady came towards me with a rusty-looking knife,

然后那个老女人走上前来， 手拿一把生了锈的刀子，

one of the sharp knives,

那种锋利的，

orange-looking, has never seen water or sunlight before.

锈成褐色却依旧锋利的刀子。

I thought she was going to slaughter me,

我以为她要杀了我，

but she didn't.

但她没有。

She slowly slid down my body

她的手缓慢地滑过我的身子，

and ended up where my vagina is.

停在了阴道处。

She took hold of what I now know to be my clitoris,

她捏住我的下体， 后来我才知道那是阴蒂，

she took that rusty knife, and started cutting away, inch by inch.

然后用生锈的刀子一点一点地割下它。

I screamed, I cried,

我歇斯底里地哭叫，

and asked my mom to get off me so this pain will stop,

让我妈杀了我以了却这番痛苦，

but all she did was say, "Be quiet."

但她只是在那说，「不要出声。」

This old lady sawed away at my flesh for what felt like forever,

这个老女人割下来我的肉， 好似永生难忘的痛，

and then when she was done,

完事后，

she threw that piece of flesh across the floor

她把我的那块肉丢在了房间另一侧，

as if it was the most disgusting thing she's ever touched.

好像那是她碰过的最恶心的东西一般。

They both got off me, and left me there bleeding,

她俩从我身上下来，留我一个人在那流血，

crying, and confused as to what just happened.

哭泣，却茫然不知所措。

We never talked about this again.

后来我跟我妈没谈起过这件事。

Very soon, we found that we were coming to Australia,

不久，我们就要动身前往澳大利亚了，

and this is when you had the Sydney Olympics at the time,

那时正举行悉尼奥运会，

and people said we were going to the end of the world,

有人说现在去对我们而言是世界末日，

there was nowhere else to go after Australia.

除了澳大利亚，我们别无选择。

Yeah, that comforted us a bit.

好吧，这的确让我们感到些许宽慰。

It took us three days to get here.

我们花了三天才来到这。

We went to Senegal, then France, and then Singapore.

我们途经塞内加尔，法国， 然后到新加坡。

We went to the bathroom to wash our hands.

我们去洗手间洗手，

We spent 15 minutes opening the tap like this.

花了十五分钟也没让这个水龙头流出水来。

Then somebody came in,

一个人走了进来，

slid their hand under and water came out,

把手放到了下面，水就出来了，

and we thought, is this what we're in for?

我们当时想， 这真的我们即将生活的地方吗？

Like, seriously.

真的，不可思议。

We got to Adelaide, small place,

我们到达了阿德莱德，一个小地方，

where literally they dumped us in Adelaide, that's what I would say.

事实上是他们把我们丢在了阿德莱德， 我不得不这么说。

They dumped us there.

他们把我们丢在了那儿。

We were very grateful.

我们心中感激万分，

We settled and we liked it.

在那儿安定下来，喜欢上新的家园。

We were like, "We're home, we're here."

我们心里所想的是， 「我们到家了，这就是家。」

Then somebody took us to Rundle Mall.

某一天有人带我们去Rundle购物中心。

Adelaide has only one mall.

阿德莱德只有一个购物中心，

It's this small place.

毕竟这是个小地方。

And we saw a lot of Asian people.

我们在那儿看到了许多亚洲人。

My mom said all of a sudden, panicking,

突然我妈妈惊慌了，说，

"You brought us to the wrong place. You must take us back to Australia."

「你带错路了，必须带我们回澳大利亚。」

Yeah. It had to be explained to her that there were a lot of Asians in Australia

好吧，我们好不容易说服她 有很多亚洲人住在澳大利亚，

and we were in the right place.

我们没离开澳大利亚，

So fine, it's all good.

我们很安全。

My mom then had this brilliant idea

后来我妈想出了一个「绝妙」的点子，

that I should go to a girls school because they were less racist.

说我应该去女子学校， 那儿的歧视会相对弱一些。

I don't know where she read that publication. (Laughter)

我不知道她哪来的消息。（笑声）

Never found evidence of it to this day.

到今天也没有证据来证实她这句话。

Six hundred white kids, and I was the only black child there.

六百个白人孩子，我是唯一的黑人孩子。

No, I was the only person with a bit of a color on me.

不，我是唯一的一个有一丁点 白色以外皮肤的孩子。

Let me say that. Chocolate color.

或者说，是巧克力色。

There were no Asians, no indigenous.

学校里没有亚洲人，没有土著人。

All we had was some tan girls,

唯一的白色以外的颜色就是晒黑的，

girls who felt the need to be under the sun.

那些喜欢晒太阳的女孩子。

It wasn't the same as my chocolate, though. Not the same.

但这跟我的巧克力色不同。不一样的。

Settling in Australia was quite hard,

在澳大利亚生活真的不容易，

but it became harder when I started volunteering for an organization

但自从我为一个名为 全国女性健康的组织做志愿者开始，

called Women's Health Statewide,

生活就更不容易了，

and I joined their female genital mutilation program

我加入了这个组织的女性割礼项目，

without any awareness of what this program was actually about,

当时我对这个项目的内容一无所知，

or that it related to me in any way.

也不知道它跟我有什么关系。

I spent months educating nurses and doctors

后面的几个月时间里， 我为护士和医生们讲述

about what female genital mutilation was

女性割礼的概念，

and where it was practiced:

以及割礼盛行的区域：

Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and now, Australia and London and America,

非洲，中东，亚洲，如今， 还有澳大利亚，伦敦和美国，

because, as we all know, we live in a multicultural society,

因为，我们都知道， 我们住在一个多元化的社会，

and people who come from those backgrounds come with their culture,

世界各地的人将其自身文化带到新的地方，

and sometimes they have cultural practices that we may not agree with,

他们的文化或许不被我们认同，

but they continue to practice them.

但他们一直秉持着原有文化习俗。

One day, I was looking at the chart

有一天，我在看不同类型

of the different types of female genital mutilation,

女性割礼的图解说明，

FGM, I will just say FGM for short.

后面我就将女性割礼简称为FGM吧。

Type I is when they cut off the hood.

类型一是切除阴蒂；

Type II is when they cut off the whole clitoris

类型二是切除整个阴蒂

and some of your labia majora, or your outer lips,

和一部分大阴唇，或外阴唇；

and Type III is when they cut off the whole clitoris

类型三是切除整个阴蒂后

and then they sew you up

将下体缝合，

so you only have a little hole to pee and have your period.

只留一个小洞作为排尿和经血之用。

My eyes went onto Type II.

我的目光盯在了第二类上。

Before all of this, I pretty much had amnesia.

在那一天前，我确信我有一段缺失的记忆，

I was in so much shock and traumatized by what had happened,

那件事给我带来撕心裂肺的苦楚 和难以名状的震惊，

I didn't remember any of it.

我却忘得一干二净。

Yes, I was aware something bad happened to me,

没错，我知道痛苦曾降临到我身上，

but I had no recollection of what had happened.

但具体是什么我却想不起来。

I knew I had a scar down there,

我知道我身上有一道伤疤，

but I thought everybody had a scar down there.

但我一直以为人人都如此，

This had happened to everybody else.

这应该是人人都要经历的。

But when I looked at Type II, it all came back to me.

但那天当我看到类型二时，所有的记忆都回来了。

I remembered what was done to me.

我想起来了我遭受的一切，

I remembered being in that hut

我想起了在小棚屋里

with that old lady and my mom holding me down.

我被我妈和那个老女人压在地上。

Words cannot express the pain I felt,

我的伤痛和疑惑

the confusion that I felt,

无法用言语表达，

because now I realized that what was done to me was a terrible thing

因为那时我终于意识到发生在我身上的是

that in this society was called barbaric,

一件被这里的人认为是可怕的、 野蛮的事情，

it was called mutilation.

它被称作残害。

My mother had said it was called circumcision,

我妈说这叫割礼，

but here it was mutilation.

但这里的人们称之为残害。

I was thinking, I'm mutilated? I'm a mutilated person.

我当时就想，我是残缺的吗？ 我是一个残缺的人，

Oh my God.

天啊。

And then the anger came.

我心中的怒火无法抑制。

I was a black angry woman. (Laughter)

我是一个愤怒的黑人女子。（笑声）

Oh yeah.

没错，

A little one, but angry nevertheless.

我虽然年纪尚轻，但确实很愤怒。

I went home and said to my mom,

我回到家中，对我妈说，

"You did something."

「你做了什么！」

This is not the African thing to do, pointing at your mother,

非洲国家的人很少会这样对着母亲说话，

but hey, I was ready for any consequences.

但是，我已经顾不得了。

"You did something to me."

「你对我做了什么！」

She's like, "What are you talking about, Khadija?"

她说，「你在说什么呢，Khadija？」

She's used to me mouthing off.

她已经习惯我顶嘴了。

I'm like, "Those years ago, You circumcised me.

我说，「许多年前，你对我实施了割礼，

You cut away something that belonged to me."

你割掉了我身体的一部分。」

She said, "Yes, I did.

她说，「没错，

I did it for your own good.

我是为你好，

It was in your best interest.

都是为你着想。

Your grandmother did it to me, and I did it to you.

你的祖母对我这样做，我也对你做啊。

It's made you a woman."

这样才能让你成为女人。」

I'm like, "How?"

我说，「怎么就成女人了？」

She said, "You're empowered, Khadija.

她说，「这样你才会变强，Khadija，

Do you get itchy down there?"

下面有没有痒过？」

I'm like, "No, why would I get itchy down there?"

我说，「没有，为什么下面会痒？」

She said, "Well, if you were not circumcised,

她说，「如果没把你下体割去，

you would get itchy down there.

你那里就会觉得痒，

Women who are not circumcised get itchy all the time.

那些没受过割礼的女人会一直觉得痒，

Then they sleep around with everybody.

她们就会四处鬼混，随便跟人睡觉，

You are not going to sleep around with anybody."

你不会随便跟人上床的。」

And I thought,

我当时就想，

her definition of empowerment was very strange. (Laughter)

她对「变强」的理解真的好奇怪。（笑声）

That was the end of our first conversation.

那次谈话就这么结束了。

I went back to school.

我后来回到了学校。

These were the days when we had Dolly and Girlfriend magazines.

那个年代《Dolly and Girlfriend》杂志正红，

There was always the sealed section. Anybody remember those sealed sections?

每期都有「少儿不宜」的部分， 还有人记得吗？

The naughty bits, you know?

蠢蠢欲动的孩子，

Oh yeah, I love those. (Laughter)

哦耶，我爱不释手。（笑声）

Anyway, there was always an article about pleasure

总之，这本杂志每一期 都会刊登男女关系的文章，

and relationships and, of course, sex.

当然，性话题免不了。

But it always assumed that you had a clitoris, though,

只有有阴蒂的女性 才会有文章中描绘的那些感受，

and I thought, this doesn't fit me.

我想，这都跟我无关。

This doesn't talk about people like me.

文章中写到的那些女性肯定不是我这样的。

I don't have a clitoris.

我没有阴蒂。

I watched TV and those women would moan like, "Oh! Oh!"

我看到过电视里有的女人总会低吟， 「哦！哦！」

I was like, these people and their damned clitoris.

我想，靠，这些女人也有阴蒂。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

What is a woman without a clitoris supposed to do with her life?

没有阴蒂的女人这一辈子要怎么过？

That's what I want to know.

我很想知道，

I want to do that too -- "Oh! Oh!" and all of that.

我也很想像那些女人一样低吟 「哦！哦！」

Didn't happen.

这注定不会发生了。

So I came home once again and said to my mom,

又一天回到家后，我对我妈说，

"Dolly and Girlfriend said I deserve pleasure,

「《Dolly and Girlfriend》说我理应享有快感，

that I should be having orgasms,

我也应该有高潮，

and that white men should figure out how to find the clitoris."

白人男人应该研究如何找到女人的阴蒂。」

Apparently, white men have a problem finding the clitoris.

很明显，白人男人找阴蒂总是很困难。

(Laughter)

（笑声）

Just saying, it wasn't me. It was Dolly that said that.

我只是告诉我妈，这不是我说的， 是Dolly说的。

And I thought to myself, I had an inner joke in my head

当时我脑子里想，我脑子里蹦出一个笑话，

that said, "I will marry a white man.

「我要嫁给一个白人，

He won't have that problem with me." (Laughter)

他就不会有困难了。」（笑声）

So I said to my mom,

我对我妈说，

"Dolly and Girlfriend said I deserve pleasure, and do you know

「《Dolly and Girlfriend》说我应有快感， 你知道吗，

what you have taken away from me, what you have denied me?

你剥夺了它，你让我体验不到！

You have invaded me in the most sacred way.

你用最残酷的方式糟蹋了我。

I want pleasure.

我要快感，

I want to get horny, dammit, as well."

我也要淫荡，靠！」

And she said to me, "Who is Dolly and Girlfriend?

她对我说，「Dolly and Girlfriend 是谁？

Are they your new friends, Khadija?"

是你新结交的朋友吗，Khadija？」

I was like, "No, they're not. That's a magazine, mom, a magazine."

我说，「不，不是的， 这是一本杂志，妈，是杂志。」

She didn't get it.

她明白不了我的呐喊。

We came from two different worlds.

我们来自两个不同的世界。

When she was growing up, not having a clitoris was the norm.

在她成长的那个年代， 切除阴蒂的习俗是社会默许的文化，

It was celebrated.

是被称许鼓励的。

I was an African Australian girl.

我是一个非洲裔澳大利亚女孩，

I lived in a society that was very clitoris-centric.

我成长的社会却是「阴蒂中心」的。

It was all about the damn clitoris!

一切都围着阴蒂转！

And I didn't have one!

我却没有！

That pissed me off.

这惹毛了我。

So once I went through this strange phase of anger

自这引发了我莫名的气愤、痛楚

and pain and confusion,

和疑惑的事件之后，

I remember booking an appointment with my therapist.

我跟我的心理医生预约了一次诊疗。

Yes, I'm an African who has a therapist. There you go.

没错，我是个有心理医生的非洲女孩。 随你们想吧。

And I said to her,

我对她说，

"I was 13. I was a child.

「我十三岁了，还是个孩子，

I was settling in a new country,

在新的国度安了家，

I was dealing with racism and discrimination,

面对种族主义和歧视，

English is my third language, and then there it was."

英语是我的第三语言，基本上这样。」

I said to her, "I feel like I'm not a woman

我对她说，「因为发生过不幸的事情，

because of what was done to me.

我感觉我不是一个女人。

I feel incomplete.

我感觉我不完整，

Am I going to be asexual?"

我此生都不会有性生活吗？」

Because from what I knew about FGM,

我这么问是因为就我所知，

the whole aim of it was to control the sexuality of women.

FGM的目的就是控制女性的性欲，

It's so that we don't have any sexual desire.

扼杀女性的性欲。

And I said, "Am I asexual now?

我说，「我是无性人吗？

Will I just live the rest of my life not feeling like having sex,

从今往后做爱时我都感觉不到什么吗？

not enjoying sex?"

不会有所享受是吗？」

She couldn't answer my questions,

她回答不了我的问题，

so they went unanswered.

这些疑问就留在了我的心中。

When I started having my period around the age of 14,

在14岁迎来了初潮后，

I realized I didn't have normal periods because of FGM.

我意识到因为FGM，

My periods were heavy, they were long, and they were very painful.

我的生理周期不正常，流量大， 持续时间长，疼痛难当。

Then they told me I had fibroids.

有人告诉我我患有子宫肌瘤，

They're like these little balls sitting there.

肿瘤就像球状物附着在那儿，

One was covering one of my ovaries.

其中一个裹住了我的卵巢。

And there came then the big news.

随后是一个晴天霹雳，

"We don't think you can have children, Khadija."

「你可能不能有孩子，Khadija。」

And once again, I was an angry black woman.

又一次，我成了愤怒的黑人女子。

I went home and I said to my mom,

回到家后，对我妈说，

"Your act, your action, no matter what your may defense may be" --

「你的所作所为，无论是出于怎样的目的」

because she thought she did it out love --

因为她是出于对我的爱才这么做——

"what you did out of love is harming me, and it's hurting me.

「你的爱对我而言却是伤害，带给我伤痛。

What do you have to say for that?"

你不应该为此说什么吗？」

She said, "I did what I had to do as a mother."

她说，「作为一个母亲，我不得不做。」

I'm still waiting for an apology, by the way.

至今我依旧在等她的道歉，顺便说一下。

Then I got married.

后来我结婚了。

And once again --

FGM依然是

FGM is like the gift that keeps giving.

挥之不去的阴影。

You figure that out very soon.

结婚后不久我就知道了。

Sex was very painful.

性爱总是很痛苦，

It hurt all the time.

始终在折磨我。

And of course I realized, they said, "You can't have kids."

当然，那个声音一直在心里回荡， 「你生不了孩子的。」

I thought, "Wow, is this my existence? Is this what life is all about?"

我想，「天啊，我就这样了吗？ 这就是我的一生吗？」

I'm proud to tell you,

我很自豪地告诉你们，

five months ago,

五个月前，

I was told I was pregnant.

我得知我怀孕了。

(Applause)

（掌声）

I am the lucky girl.

我是个幸运的女孩。

There are so many women out there who have gone through FGM

有那么多经历了FGM的女孩

who have infertility.

怀不了孩子。

I know a nine-year-old girl who has incontinence, constant infections, pain.

我认识一个9岁的女孩，不仅大小便失禁， 还有无休止的感染和伤痛。

It's that gift. It doesn't stop giving.

这就是FGM带来的，给数不胜数的女孩

It affects every area of your life,

生活的方方面面带来伤害。

and this happened to me because I was born a girl

我也经历了这一切，只是因为我生在了一个

in the wrong place.

错误的地方，

That's why it happened to me.

一切都源于此。

I channel all that anger, all that pain, into advocacy

我把心中的愤懑和伤痛都倾吐了出来，

because I needed my pain to be worth something.

因为我不想让我的经历变成毫无意义的伤痛。

So I'm the director of an organization called No FGM Australia.

为此，我成为了一个名为「澳大利亚无FGM」 的组织的领头人。

You heard me right.

你没有听错，

Why No FGM Australia?

为什么叫「澳大利亚无FGM」？

FGM is in Australia.

因为澳大利亚存在FGM。

Two days ago, I had to call Child Protective Services,

两天前，我不得不给儿童保障局打电话，

because somewhere in Australia,

因为在澳大利亚某个地方，

there's a four-year old

一个母亲正

there's a four-year-old whose mom is planning on performing FGM on her.

打算给她四岁的女儿实施割礼，四岁。

That child is in kindy. I'll let that sink in: four years old.

小孩是无辜的。你们想想，四岁啊。

A couple of months ago, I met a lady who is married to a Malaysian man.

几个月前， 我遇到一个嫁给马来西亚男人的妇女，

Her husband came home one day and said he was going to take their daughters

某一天她丈夫回到家后跟她说， 他要带女儿们回到

back to Malaysia to cut off their clitoris.

马拉西亚割掉她们的阴蒂。

And she said, "Why?" He said they were dirty.

她说，「为什么？」 他说不割阴蒂的女人是肮脏的。

And she said, "Well, you married me."

她说，「但你还是娶了我。」

He said, "Oh, this is my cultural belief."

他说，「好吧，但这是我的文化信仰。」

They then went into a whole discussion where she said to him,

然后他俩彻夜长谈，她说，

"Over my dead body will you do that to my daughters."

「我死也不会让你带我女儿去那儿。」

But imagine if this woman wasn't aware of what FGM was,

想象一下， 如果这个母亲不知道FGM是什么，

if they never had that conversation?

如果他俩没进行过谈话，

Her children would have been flown over to Malaysia

他们的孩子就要被带去马来西亚，

and they would have come back changed for the rest of their lives.

再回来时一生的轨迹就已经变调了。

Do you know the millions of dollars

你们知道我们处理这些问题

it would take us to deal with an issue like that?

要投入数百万美金吗？

[Three children per day] in Australia

每天平均有三个孩子

are at risk of having FGM performed on them.

面临遭受割礼的危险。

This is an Australian problem, people.

这是澳大利亚的问题啊，

It's not an African problem. It's not a Middle Eastern problem.

这不只是非洲、中东的问题，

It's not white, it's not black, it has no color, it's everybody's problem.

不只是黑人或白人的问题， 无关乎肤色，这是所有人面临的问题。

FGM is child abuse.

FGM就是虐待儿童，

It's violence against women.

是对女性的暴行，

It's saying that women don't have a right to sexual pleasure.

FGM的目的是女性没有享受性爱的权利，

It says we don't have a right to our bodies.

我们没有权利保护自己的身体。

Well, I say no to that, and you know what? Bullshit.

我对这种暴行说不，你知道吗？ 这个习俗真烂。

That's what I have to say to that.

这就是我要说的。

(Applause)

（掌声）

I am proud to say that I'm doing my part in ending FGM.

我在为根除FGM贡献自己的力量， 为此我很自豪。

What are you going to do?

你会不会也做些什么？

There may be a child in your classroom who is at risk of FGM.

也许在你的教室里某个孩子 面临FGM的危险。

There may be a patient who comes to your hospital

也许你所在医院里的某个人

who is at risk of FGM.

正面临FGM的危险。

But this is the reality,

这就是事实，

that even in our beloved Australia,

即便是我们挚爱的澳大利亚，

the most wonderful place in the world,

就在这个世界上最美好的地方，

children are being abused because of a culture.

孩子正因为某种陋俗而面临危险。

Culture should not be a defense for child abuse.

习俗文化不应成为虐待儿童的借口。

I want ever single one of you to see FGM as an issue for you.

我希望你们每一个人 都把FGM看成是切身相关的事情。

Make it personal.

FGM就在你的身边，

It could be your daughter, your sister, your cousin.

或许是你的女儿，你的姐妹，你的表亲。

I can't fight FGM alone.

我不能孤单地挑战FGM，

I could try, but I can't.

我会努力，但一个人的力量不够。

So my appeal to you is, please join me.

我对你们的希望是，跟我站在一起。

Sign my petition on Change.org

在 Change.org 写下我的请愿， (译注：一个国际性的请愿网站，大陆无法访问)

and type in Khadija, my name, and it'll come up, and sign it.

并输入我的名字，Khadija， 它会出现，然后签下。

The aim of that is to get support for FGM victims in Australia

我们的目的是为澳大利亚 受割礼之害的儿童提供帮助，

and to protect little girls growing up here

并保护在这里成长的女孩，

to not have this evil done to them,

不让割礼发生在她们身上，

because every child has a right to pleasure.

因为，每一个小孩都有权利享乐。

Every child has a right to their bodies being left intact,

每一个小孩都有权利保护身体不受伤害。

and dammit, ever child has a right to a clitoris.

每个小孩都有权利拥有阴蒂。

So please join me in ending this act.

请跟我一起，让这个陋俗灭绝。

My favorite quote is,

我最喜欢的一句话是，

"All it takes for evil to prevail

「善良的人不作为，

is for a few good men and women to do nothing."

邪恶就会蔓延。」

Are you going to let this evil of female genital mutilation

你们希望让女性割礼

to prevail in Australia?

在澳大利亚盛行吗？

I don't think so,

我想不是的，

so please join me in ensuring that it ends in my generation.

那么就请跟我一起， 让割礼在我们这一代终结。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

（掌声）