Mime Sir setting up the scene center stage while others wait in the wings. He is explaining that the girl is pregnant, which brings giggles. Actually it led later to the question of whether a girl can have a baby without being married… a discussion for another time. Our girls have a combination of innocence, or rather ignorance, while also having knowledge of sexuality that children of any age should not have. It’s a real knowledge split… the reality of their lives, and their childness. I want them to feel safe as children first… a first step in strength and understanding.
OH NO!
IT’S A GIRL!!!!!!
Gibi’s daughter Preety (Harpreet), fifteen years old, wrote an email to me a few months ago:
Dear Mummy,
How are you? This is for you and the girls.
Love, Preety
I am a girl.
Who am I?
I am a girl,
Born in this world.
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Am I a mistake?
Yes they say so,
They call me a mistake.
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What is my future?
Not the future,
Which they see for me,
But what I see for myself.
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Grandmother tells her son-in-law that he is wrong.
Stressed out, he goes to sleep.
The Fairy comes to him in his sleep. She scolds him, 
and enlightens him…. girls and boys, all of us, the same, the same worth, the same to love.
(From the Author — I give up… this is taking hours. I’ll just post some pics….)
The audience
Mother and Child
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END OF THE FIRST PART…. KABADI… KABADI… KABADI…TO FOLLOW
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