{"id":13837,"date":"2010-05-02T10:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T15:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13837"},"modified":"2010-07-22T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:45:26","slug":"miguinti-lupi-ngaitana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=13837","title":{"rendered":"Miguinti, Lupi &#8211; Ngaitana!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lupiloops.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ngaitana1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ngaitana!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Female genital mutilation!\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s the nature of the random review  grab pile I have on my desk, folks.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, I would have liked to have  come back to reviewing after an exhausting election season and had  something lighthearted and cheery, but the power of the random grab  compels me.\u00c2\u00a0 This was originally attempted as a 24 hour comic and Lupi  says that it ended up being more like 48 hours.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s fine, it  probably looks a lot better this way.\u00c2\u00a0 This is historical fiction,  taking place in Kenya in 1956 after the Brits attempt to ban female  genital mutilation.\u00c2\u00a0 Crazy, I know, but this story is mostly about the  young women of the time having a hard time accepting that fact and  eventually doing the mutilating themselves.\u00c2\u00a0 Who&#8217;s right and who&#8217;s wrong  here isn&#8217;t discussed, as this does an excellent job of staying a fairly  straightforward piece of historical fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 One note for the  especially squeamish: that cover talks about graphic images but it&#8217;s  really only a graphic image, that of a razor being held up to a vagina.\u00c2\u00a0  I still don&#8217;t know exactly what gets cut during the mutilation process  (although I can infer from the image in here) and, frankly, I&#8217;m good  without that particular piece of information lodged in my brain.\u00c2\u00a0 This  whole comic is up at Lupi&#8217;s website at the moment, along with other  comics that (I&#8217;m only guessing here) have nothing to do with genital  mutilation.\u00c2\u00a0 All told it&#8217;s a fascinating story and I appreciate the  ambiguity, especially with something that damned near every thinking  human being has long ago disregarded as an absurd and horrific  practice.\u00c2\u00a0 No price, but let&#8217;s say $2.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ngaitana2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website Ngaitana! Female genital mutilation!\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s the nature of the random review grab pile I have on my desk, folks.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted, I would have liked to have come back to reviewing after an exhausting election season and had something lighthearted and cheery, but the power of the random grab compels me.\u00c2\u00a0 This was originally attempted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3846,1683],"class_list":["post-13837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-lupi-miguinti","tag-ngaitana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13840,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13837\/revisions\/13840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}