By: Keri Luvsyou
Dear Editor,
I am writing to express my urgent concern about the femicide crisis in Kenya.. As a country that says it sincerely values its youth, I felt it was important to express my view of what it is to be not only a student but 15 and, most importantly, a woman in Kenya. Most have spoken about their fears of feeling unsafe, about how this country as a whole as a community and institution has made everyday life a danger zone for young women. My peers and classmates are forced to grow up in a society that has thrown us to the bottom of the pit, as if gender-based violence, limited education, and child marriages weren’t enough.
I have been caught in the same stagnant feeling, wrapped up in the thought that when I originally walked into women’s rights advocacy, there was always a solution to set forward and an action to take. But with femicide i ask you to think about the agony it must cause me to be 15 and stuck with the thought, “How can I help a dead woman?” When I read yet another article or I’m presented with yet another post, I want the older generations to know I do not have the time to think of my safety; it is the last thing I worry about. I have no time to be scared or terrified; I must be angry first.
I don’t know when we ended up in an inhumane society that doesn’t value human beings and souls out of the sheer simple fact that they are human beings first, but I have been forced to swallow the hard pill that not everyone in this city is walking around with an active soul. Some of yours must be dormant. I am angry that more than 90 lives have been lost and we are continuing to function in society as if femicide is the norm. A woman dying at the hands of a man is as fatal and evil as cannibalism or whatever else most of this society deems evil. I am disgusted because I have been told I am too young to do anything. By the standards of this society, I am not too young to get assaulted, I am not too young to get married, and I am not too young to die, but I am too young to protect and to be protected.
We have rendered feminism similar to drizzling drizzling is rain, but not enough to carry an umbrella. I want Kenya to know that whether it is a storm or a slight drizzle, everybody still gets wet. You must start to recognize femicide is an upcoming raging storm. One person’s life is a loss that affects us all, and to the institutions and systems that are meant to protect this woman you are terribly wrong for being able to sleep comfortably, or at all, at night.
#EndFemicide
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