19. Surviving FGM, Navigating Trauma and Community Surveillance, and “Cut Woman” with Poet Dena Igusti

This week, poet and playwright Dena Igusti comes onto Homecoming to share what is what like growing up in Queens, New York as a queer, non-binary Indonesian Muslim and their experience with female genital mutilation (FGM) and the trauma it resulted in. Dena also just released their new poetry book, “Cut Woman” (see link below to buy it!), so she also talks about what inspired different poems from the anthology, the creative process of creating “Cut Woman,” and their statement about Indonesia at the very end of the book.

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