Writer's blogk is refusing to leave me. I think it might be the reason I've been having strange dreams about orphan children being left on my doorstop, bodily functions gone mad and boats sailing across angry oceans. On the other hand, it could be because I'm desperate for a little sugar.
Sigh.
So until I get my mojo back, please accept this link to an article that will simultaneously crush your heart with hopeless sadness yet lift it to the skies in buoyant optimism.
I can't even begin to comprehend how brave this little girl is, and how awful the system (however grassroots in terms of the fact it was sanctioned by her parents) that allowed this to happen to her in the first place.
UPDATE: Case resolved.
"I am happy that I am divorced now. I will be able to go back to school," Nojud Mohammed Ali said, after a public hearing in Sanaa's Court of First Instance.
Maximum awesome. But extremely sad when we have confirmation from her abuser that the 'marriage' was consummated. Sick fucker.
On a side note, I interviewed Martha Wainwright this morning, and my overwhelming feeling post phoner was this:
I knew there was a reason I didn't do music interviews.
Because I fucking suck at them.
And now she knows it.
UPDATE: I still suck.
Peace out (Martha...)
PS Coming up! Posts on Zoo's divorce comp, brazillian waxes for 8 year olds, cosy winter dinners at the homestead and the madness that is an IKEA instruction manual. I'm nothing if not endlessly optimistic.
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Oh my. You're right, that is one incredibly brave little girl right there, but also so terribly saddening that we live in a world where this could even happen.
um, do you think martha will marry me?
Oh god, I love Martha. I understand your predicament. I'm sure I'd dissolve into a sycophantic puddle in her presence rather than retain any facade of cool.
Makes me pretty impressed by that Yemeni girl. I couldn't stay coherent in front of a musician and she can face a court on her own at the age of 8!
I suck at music interviews also... I just don't have the lingo down and end up asking really stupid questions like "so your last album had lots of slow songs on it, will this one have faster songs?". It's almost as bad as my sports interviewing ability. "So, what did you do to win the match?"..."Why do you like sport?". So lame!
Oh no - are you a Martha fan? Music interviews nearly always suck when you're interviewing someone you really like. You end up being stuck between wanting to scream "OH MY GOD YOU'RE SO FREAKIN AWESOME, SERIOUSLY, THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING THING FOR ME, GETTING TO TALK TO YOU!!" and wanting to act all cool by pretending to care what model mixing desk they used on their last album, cos it sounds "really tight, man".
Worse still is when you agree to interview a band you DON'T care about, to the point where you don't even know what country they're from or what their music sounds like, and then the phone rings and it's them and you've completely forgotten to do any research, and you realise that the next 20 minutes is going to be rather like an extended version of the game on "Who's line is it anyway" where one person has to guess the other's secret identity through cryptic clues.
Not that that's happened to me ever.
I would really really suck at music interviews. Which is why I don't do them. I wouldn't know the lingo and I would definitely come off sounding dumb. I'm sure you weren't as bad as you think though. If you actually decided to do one, you must be better at it than me.
And hey, you totally rock at author interviews ...
That is so scary! So brave to go to court by herself, but in the interview she soudned far more mature than an 8-year old should have to be. Not surprising considering what she went through, but so so sad!
Have gone back and read the article now ... that's so sad, but so inspiring, too. What an amazing girl. EIGHT!!!! Thanks for posting it.
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