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d, w. ah, me, it's the worst act of violence in history against the u. s. l. g b t q. community. 5 years ago. a gunman killed 49 people, 53 more well, 100 game night club pulse in orlando. amanda grow only survive because she hits herself on the other victims bodies. her physical wounds took months to heal. she still has nightmare and wakes up screaming in the arms of her wife. ah. for the 1st time in 4 years, amanda returned to the site of the massacre. she was shot on the dance floor of the

shooter open. fired and was critically wounded by 4 gunshots. would friend her son, philip was murdered that night? i wish i could've done more the same you amanda only survived by hiding under the bodies of the victims. it took a 3 r, a hostage situation and gunfight before police shot omar martinez dead. his motive so unclear to this day, shortly before the attack, he swore allegiance to the so called islamic state. i remember crying and screaming and pleading to please, you know, no more enough is enough. then we'd hear a blast. that's when a fire and police came in there with the t's and paramedics and saying that, you know, who stated who they were and that were safe now. and that that they killed

them in no say from them that they need us to try to get out as quickly as we can. so they could get us to the hospital. i had to tell him that i can't walk. i can't really move. so i had to drag my body across the the bathroom floor. jasmine ralph amanda's wife, accompanies her to the memorial on the 5th anniversary of the shooting. oh, i can never, ever forgive him, ever. god forgive, but you can't forgive amongst you like me a practicing christian. she asked the murder victims what she should do through prayer i've been rainbow so that was my sign from them saying, you know,

do it, do any go be any t fire, fire paramedic. go help people in this world that really need help and try to save their lives. so hopefully something like this or anything else in the world will happen. just just to be there for me. amanda followed through and successfully and training as an emergency medical technician. give me a sense of purpose to know that you know when i'm out there and i'm helping somebody, whatever the situation is, whether we have to do cpr or somebody was going to accident or an elderly maybe have fallen just to know that that they that they see us and they know that we're going to take care of them. it's just, it's just gives me just a warm feeling. and scientists happy that i can help somebody and need

just been working with. i be brenner for the past year. the ship are 12 hours long . sometimes longer they do this an average of $8.00 to $10.00 medical emergencies per day. the tight space in the ambulance have allowed them to get to know each other well. me the the best person to talk about it with somebody who's been through if i've seen her interact with trauma patients. she's great. i see that with twins, but she's moving through it. i know this job because sometimes depending on what we go to sometimes you know, tragedies miss like a little bit. it's

hard because i know she's been through me. and i show your day good. how is yours? her home gives them enough strength and a feeling of safety. she and jasmine have known each other for

a long time. a year ago. they got married and now live with jasmine children. as a family you like it was saying if you look at 2 signs of what i was talking about, feel it makes me feel helpless like i just wish there was something more i could do . especially in times like when we're on the beach and they start the fire work start and in some expected cause. daytime or something. and she just starts running and you know, she, she's looking for some way to go to run from, you know, gunshot sounds, you know, cuz that's what it sounds like to her. and i'm chasing her and i'm, we're trying to go some more safe somewhere to. so that she doesn't have to hear that and feel that way. bring it all back. you know? so it's like i said, flashbacks, that i get when that happens. so. but you being there it's that's, that's enough for me that,

that is doing something. so i don't want you to feel like amanda and her whole family, including her parents and her brother, live in temple, an hour and a half by car, from orlando. and i know always had a good relationship with her parents and her brother. but they have gotten closer since the shooting that night. the head all celebrated her father's birthday. afterwards. amanda wanted to briefly go to the club to dance with her friend chris . she had been there only half an hour in the hall began 911 recordings portray people waiting in panic for help to arrive. ready ready ready ready ready i don't know what's the location of the emergency call for, and i need you to stay where you are. i'm going to try to cheryl in the police department, but we have multiple calls coming in. they're working the shooting out there. okay

. ready ready ready he's still inside the shooters, inside what address coach cole, the amanda called her mother from her hiding place in a bathroom stall. the phone rang, i immediately looked at the clock every time before if, because my kids and so if it's late i'm i panic. so i jumped, i answer the phone and all i got was mom. i've been shot unlike amanda, where are you? she she said was paul some like wars. paul, she says orlando, i said orlando. i said amanda, where in orlando is paul. so i don't know, mom, please call 911 i've been shot and then i got a dial tone, whom i said, there's always been a type of person that will just give us your offer back. she's always been a very loving accepting person. i know we joke around about about her, but she truly is an awesome person. i don't see that because she's my sister just. you can just see it from her. she always wants to help people. we always make a joke that if she's got $5.00 in your pocket, she'll give you $10.00. and so how this changed her. i feel is that just more of an advocate,

more to help people and understanding of what happened to her and but not let her define her. i couldn't even imagine moving it was, it was rough. i get like the only one i think amana or talk to somebody about it, but for the most part, you know, we're just happy family and just happy that she is here with us to it'll continue life, me and brandon wolf. it's also a survivor who there's a lot that has to be done to stop things like pulse from happening. we have to have a conversation policy wise about how we treat guns in this country. it is far too easy for dangerous people to get their hands on weapons that are designed to kill

as many people as quickly as possible. before the attack, brendan was a manager at starbucks. now he's active is fighting for stronger gun control laws and against anti l g b t q discrimination. what happened at pulse was not an operation. it was an avid ability. the ingredients, the l g anti l g b, g q, violence are ever present. they're the same ingredients that show up when a trans kid had give slammed into a locker, they're the same ingredient that exists when a black trans women has gone down on the street. when i was growing up, church wasn't a safe place for me. school was on a safe place for me. home was not always a safe place for me. and that's true for a lot of l g b t q people. and for that reason we carve out the safe spaces like whole as sort of lifelines where we can be authentically ourselves without having to be afraid or look over our shoulder 1st.

ah, i oh, i amanda and brandon on meeting for the 1st time. exactly 5 years after the massacre from all over the world, people are just coming together as a community and just kind of lending their, you know, their shoulders in their hearts. and you know, if we needed help or anything like that, i'm just coming trying to be like united. so that was, that was very lovely when they, when the world was doing a re commitment to a world where we can be ourselves unapologetically and do it in honor of the people that were stolen from ah. ready gratefully

dara teach fronted by the mash shooting in the pulse club. shouldn't hide the fact that the members of l. g b t q. community have to live that the daily threat in the same country where as the president himself has termed it, gun violence is an upper demick. oh, oh i, i the, the initiation really would still take place african things and humiliations on the path to manhood, to female genital mutilation. when it comes to young people who are talking, smash gender stereotypes,

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do it on the w. me. hello, welcome to the 77 percent the show for you africa hughes. i am mike looting this edition of the show is coming to you from our crop in gonna yes. what's coming up for you can wrap up monday. goal shows us around the downside of done dora boxed up, patricia for last. just want to talk through the parson, pitts, income paula and in our street to debate would discuss at the initiation, right, female genitalia police and our main topics to be harmful and deadly initiation. right? before we talk about f t m, let's look at what some young men have to go through. the numbers may not be as high, but this stuff on the grid, mental and physical pain, across africa, different cultures. monk,

the transition from boyhood to manhood. what initiation rituals in south africa, many young men lose our lives. as a result, we do african close to the fall river early in the morning and these initiation students practice traditional chance. it is a highly secretive process. we're lucky, out of 20 students these 5 and that teacher are willing to talk. they perform a cleansing ritual in the river every morning. these schools are infamous for the allegedly brutal methods, but this young initiate shows no sign of fear. some guys are scared, hampton, but that's only because other people like century things. so some have this fear, but because this is our culture, i fear nothing. i for, i feel like most of the boys here have to go through it over when i was in the, the traditional class and pay to ethnic groups believe a boy can only become a man if it goes through the rites of passage like chanting, stick,

fighting and hunting, the rite of passage culminates with the circumcision of the students performed in an open field by a traditional healer. while only a my nora t of the schools are accused of mistreating the students. many push questionable ideas about masculinity. because once you come from this, please, you can or to cry. it's like if someone a u. f post their way or even if you feel pain, use like here with forming leg tinney a little bit to be as soon as your attitude like this made this young man's experience all the more painful at the age of 18 or lani acosta were sent by his father to an initiation school. as soon as he arrived in his cousin was subjected to daily beating the colonies, cousin was a proud young man and defied the humiliation. so he was often taken aside and punished repeatedly with further beatings. one evening the eldest took him away

once again to teach him a lesson. this time he never returned. my cousin never came back cuz he was a fighter. you know, was one person can stand up for himself. like they beat him to a plan whereby they killed it and then they realize that the quality too far then they just came back. and i think the initiation schools on to registered or monitored much like female genital mutilation initiates, can also die as a result of budget circumcisions, traditionally known as local or lose one manhood forever. when kalani asked about the whereabouts of his cousin, one of the eldest threatened him with the same fate line. he knew then that he had to flee for me. i had to choose in terms of her to my

mother and my father by being a desert to her to my mother and my father by being did so i assume you said and, and thought which one is best buy online opted for life. that's nice. he ran away and never returned, but his decision brought disgrace on his family and he's too scared to go back to his community. today. years after the ordeal, he still lives far from his village and has no contact with his parents. i've been in a lot of fights and actually because even this one like you, you constantly have to prove yourself, isn't that? and i don't think that will end. and can i get that confirmation from having an open discussion about the point of initiation rights is almost impossible

because the young men are not supposed to talk about their experiences. many who had traumatized carried with them for the rest of their lives. in south africa loan more than 400 young men have lost their lives in the past 7 years. now, the tunnel just raised by these young men is multiplied a 1000000 ford. when we talk about a young woman, i'm referring here to female genital mutilation, or of g m. for most young women and girls, it's a booty, violation of the physical and mental well being cherished cars with mall. hello there and welcome to the spread a safe space where we get to discuss everything specs and relationship. so there are 4 types of female genital cutting, also known as female genital mutilation, or s g, m, c. type one is the partial or total removal of the collector is tied to is

a partial, a total removal of the tourists and the menorah type 3 is the narrowing of the virginal orifice. then fusing the wound shut, they leave a small hole, the size of a pinkie, finger to urinate, and for ministration. once she has intercourse for the 1st time, it's up to the man to open her up again, which obviously causes a lot of pain and bleeding. type for includes all of the harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non medical purposes. for example, passing banning or incision so many women have and continue to experience both sexual and reproductive health issues. as a result of this, some of the effects could include complications during their ministration, u t. i. hemorrhage and infection, so severe they cause death in an effort to end f gmc, there are communities worldwide that are working hard to eradicate the practice.

this involves having conversations about the dangers involved, all types of f t m, i still come on in many african countries for the latest addition of our street to be our water. it is good money. problems to the not in k, now that in can yes, my side region, many young women are still expected to undergo this painful proceed. yeah. to speak to a young woman about what she went through and consulted mother before her to be come in the year 2011. can you passed a law that basically said the female genital mutilation was illegal despite this it's still being practiced across the country and even she away, we are in narrow county and we want to investigate why. and i'd like to begin with selina, who is actually a member of this community and an activist. i know for a fact that you had said to your mother that you didn't want to undergo this right

. and she forced you to i think so me and my mom of course she wanted me to grow up later. no more my say go. because my grandmother i used to go to watch many guess being sick unsafe. so it was such a jo matic experience for me and i kept telling my mom that it's something i never want to go through so she didn't think that my vision or my choice counted. so she went ahead and said for me, we even planned as a surprise ceremony. and upon coming home from visiting my uncle, everything was said and i found a group of women and they just locked me in and close to me. so my mother possibly just heard from your daughter that you forced her to get f. jim, why did you do that? give me land. now go away on the, you know, the number after they move it in your area in the middle,

you might not even happy. so you mean to tell me that if there was no law against f t m, you would still practice it? come i said i love 19, the mo numb's am i say good them and that other one and then i see them. then i made a mama, i guess i can add that they'd let them i don't understand why young doesn't work. so let me ask the men in this community. we have some very good looking morales here. dodie, come out. one, know me. what you must say when there's a co, a modem can buy, had to cut off. when this is dedrick was muscular that they've good to go, was ended my day. but i did. we're talking about humphrey practice here. what are the long term effects of f d m? what have you had to contend with psychologically if jim is not something that in with the day you are caught it something that follows you for a lifetime. 2 hours after the cut, you start shivering. you start feeling fever,

your body temperatures, right? so you can construct infections, but those other short times after you are know much you or even the mrs. coming out is a challenge. another thing is that when you're married again, you go through a process called the relation. it's another, the opening. then when you are, you want to give bath and in our community we give, but as long as we can. so that means after every bus you have to be cut for you to pass this the child. yes. alright, we're also hearing from all these women who've undergone f g m, that it does cause complications that is harmful. so do you want another one of your daughters to go through that matter right? now, ma'am, he num ella mother, gwen, i'm was will. and i mean my was an issue with you guys have

one in, i mean you good by the she's here you are, somebody comes to the police station and says of just being forced to go through the gym and we've read some instances where the police officers ask them for photos of the thing happening. this is not realistic. what make these guys not report at the time they go there. that being mess a seminar on the new i said the demo was stigmatized this day. yeah. that is that that is out. should be because most of this patients don't predict him most of this to him at that time, maybe that go to the to put to the police station. so, but isn't that why we have so many layers of administration so that if the police, if you, as a chief is not able to come to this community, should you be able to send people to survey? i sent people just have to check. and i mean if we're saying that the people being circumcised, or you know, going through g m a 9 or 10. what,

how will they know to come to report what we do? and that's the head pass a lot. we, we collaborate to the churches, philadelphia, as, and the community added at lag. okay, but to, to be fair, chief, we already know that that's not working. it's not really working entirely. so let's talk about arrests. have there been any people arrested in network? yes, i for many even the kids. ok, so i do not agree with you, but i want to come to selina 1st because is this ringing true to you? do you feel like you can trust the police officers to enforce the law festival? we don't have any police this one in my village chief, we're being told you don't even have a police station here. so where would you even begin? in fact, we have a she's saying she's saying and most mostly in fact that is no. so how do you enforce a law when the forces are not there?

we do we try. ok. so speaking of stakeholders, kaz, what more can we do as women to work with the women who are still going through this? how can we be more active stakeholders? i feel like we really need to be able to understand the ways in which different communities are able to absorb information and then use that and take that and find ways to educate women and make more precise question is, how do we begin to change the mindset of mama who is old and very fetching how, how do we begin to educate or to have conversations with her in a way that she can have a ha moment where she's like, actually we need to stop that. ok. edification is something that you're very keen on. is this the way for her to stop after him? do you think we have a center in most row with more of a rescue center now? because guess i fling into that institution is getting married. and if jim,

so creating sets, if this isn't guess a new case and will be a huge being that can solve this issue of if jim ok said yeah, what is your proposal moving forward? how do we finally get rid of this? we need to have county and community based approaches for my community may be in gauging the religious leaders will watch for the mass. i may be alternative right, right of passage my what? because these people have values attached to it. so how do we link if jim, from religion, how do we link if jim, from culture, what other political leadership doing about our female politicians to begin with? you're talking about changes right from the top all the way to the bottom. this is where we have to call it her up. they've been fantastic solutions, which have been suggested. i really hope the people who can implement them listening. speaking to you, chief,

thank you for watching. the raising awareness is the best way to cause lasting change. and in a recourse that is exactly what some young people are doing. they've created a radio program, and on this program, they discussed all manner of topics like rape abortion, and f g m. 18 year old greece has been a junior report for 6 years. she lives to not be shown the capital of the ivory coast. it has society, women do not have the same right. that men on certain topics like female genital mutilation, simply not talked about, but grades that the same way from tough topics. today's radio report is about abortion. people didn't talk about it. the things they seem to keep secret from the families, which cues a lot of young groups are going to be complicated to talk to people about ambush. and, but i do my best to convince them

a copy we have to interview them to form will be the subject is terrible in the advocacy because many people consider it's amanda. all interference with god's will many abortions take place in secret without medical support. and under hygiene italy unsafe conditions. greece wants to open the conversation level and i think we noticed that more and more you have an abortion i would like to know. what do you think about risky? the girl could die, become infer, time will have consequences for her social life. it could hurt physically, women's empowerment remains the challenge in topic in the country. i veterans are not used to being asked to these questions, especially not by a young woman. breaking the code of silence. this is the goal of the radio show, a young person, a message. here. everything will be discussed sexuality, domestic violence, rape or female genital mutilation. the project was launched in 2014 since then.

greece and her colleagues produce the one our show every saturday. stephanie k is one of the senior let him suppose the junior reporters automatically the. we notice the kids opened up. they express their feelings. they talked about things they would not have talked about before. they got involved unusual lashelle. what used to be awkward have become normal for the 18 year old, and that feels graces and with cried. list sick. we need to congratulate young girls like grace we take initiative, because thanks to them, we can move forward. really we need to encourage them our percentage level encouraging young girls to speak up. this is what greece and her program stanfull center on the street football. yes, they bought the instead of 4000 grease as decided to study journalism and she's determined to empower of a young girls like hair. the very, very difficult to get over shined is, but i encourage my friends, my grandparents,

my parents, my brothers and sisters, the people i knew to talk about taboo subjects. but if we don't talk about, no one will do it for us. we want to continue speaking out for the voiceless, not raising her voice is simply not an option anymore. speak up, raise your voice. that is the message that i got from the last report. and here was another strong voice straight out of come paula, you've got the books up, patricia apple lot. she's there, raymond weld kickboxing come on, but that to time will try to hold office. she won't calibrate until she defeated sexual harassment in you can transport. listen, you don't want to mess with me. we're searching titles to him. name patricia, a polite is the reigning, well keep boxing champion in the female lightweight division. if it gets

a lot courage to stand up, it takes a lot of courage to make it. it's all i never when you make it to the talk, some people doubt. but if you listen to the voices of other people and listening to yourself, you find out you look out yourself from what really you want to be. the 2 i'll take area, she has faith naked, see me. nation in uganda. kickboxing is considered immense on the sport. so patricia rise to the top was an uphill struggle. the people born jumped. that's what i want to change. you either choose to be one or you want to be a champion. why? because when i was a young guy had a look, bedrooms don't come easily. so i reached a point where i said, i have followed enough what people are telling me. but what do i have to tell my on

the, to the time world champion isn't just it's half open and in the ring. she also supports female atlas. we have suffered sexual harassment and violence. apollonia has a very clear message for the perpetrators people are mentally sick because you have some things to show to the world, but someone is actually limiting your access to which way you want to go. men of the gods were crying about sexual harassment. a lot of them, but it never occurred to me because one i showed them what i wanted. no one even ever thought about coming that. hey, patricia this and this because for me, since my, my school day i'll bid to hell out of you today. patricia upload knows that she can't just let her speak for themselves in a home village. laura, the 29 year old founded a club or mostly young female keep boxes. she believes that hope for a better future. that's with the young generation. especially if leaders also work towards creating

a safer environment to further develop the autonomy we can do this, we can achieve that we are good than we are actually we at the beginning of everything in this year, she is focused on defending and well titled he is convinced that he achievement to inspire more african go to stay focused on what was the last time you raise up your voice. how did you speak up against inequality and your oppression of women? let us know. 7 to 7, d, w dot com all through our community on facebook. now from compiler we had straight tonight will be to meet the wrap up my the goal in her hood of done daughter, significant thing about done tonight is that it's a slum, built on dom site. not that kind of place you expect rob to be,

but i leave you to be the job that introduce in my the goal and it done dora rock project might be the the mic. no, no. we make it much easier. most people think that music is done and then kimmie continued because you people say that only men can do it app. so the that i've gotten i new people. but when they, when they make, i feel like i'm in my own when in my, in my name you most people do. i'm and i just didn't know that you were thinking we need to be treated in

people think that but then it must have been done due to next. the largest dumpsite is majority of robin's most of the it ends up here. they're not actually nora. many people see a crisis we see, i said beyond the doubt know right of c t, we are going to change that. it's not let people be to be here because i will give and what they know. the name of the ladies i tell the live is to stand out and believe the motto on this to munitions fissions. louis.

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