By being a visual artist

Kenya 🇰🇪 "I often paint my body in my performances. If I can touch one person in an audience then I've done my job. This performance is about putting war-paint on and preparing oneself to go out in Nairobi at night. I call it the mask that Nairobi women have to wear and I think it can extend to large parts of the world. But in particular I think of Nairobi and what I've been through in my life.

From my earliest memories, from about three-years-old, I remember my dad sexually abusing me. Later on when I was about nine-years-old, his brother came to our house one summer to take care of my brother and I.

“The journey is difficult, but for anyone going through this, I would like you to know that you will emerge as an incredible woman.”

During that visit, he sexually abused me. The memories were hidden deep within and about four years ago, they came to the forefront. I was astounded at the pain that I felt. Not talking about it for so many years was really debilitating. Being able to let it out through performance is a release. The element of just feeling emotion is there in the performance and I feel that people can connect with me on that level. When a woman is going through something like this, it probably feels like the hardest thing she has been through, but when she comes out on the other side, she will emerge so much stronger. The journey is difficult, but for anyone going through this, I would like you to know that you will emerge as an incredible woman.”