Further to leading consultative workshops in Uganda in January, CrimSL postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ketty Anyeko visited Uganda March 11-20, 2024 for more conversations with youth and children born of wartime forced pregnancy.
Working again with community-based survivor-led organization Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN), Dr. Anyeko spoke with youth and children born of wartime forced pregnancy to explore emerging themes regarding their views on criminalization of a crime they were born of and their senses of justice.
In their own words:
They said I was a bastard
'She is an outcast,' they said
They left me drowning in my sorrows.
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Sometimes I wished we never came back home
Because everyone’s eyes are on me
Holding me accountable for their misfortunes
I am tied up; I am chained even when am free.
We are the aftermaths.
Anyeko and the WAN are developing a policy report from this collaboration.
The trip was made possible by U of T’s Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Black Research Network.