<div class="title">UnCut/Voices Press is a publisher dedicated to ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)</div>
<p><strong>Our Mission</strong></p>
<p>To promote abolition of FGM, thereby saving girls from genital torture, by creating a multi-media platform for dissemination of autobiographies, novels, poetry, plays, and other creative work as well as research, legislation, and histories of the movement.</p>
<p><strong>About Dr. Tobe Levin, Our Publisher</strong></p>
<p><img alt="" src="{{media url="/tobe.png"}}" style="float: left; margin: 0 5px 0 0;" />An educator, translator, and activist who speaks 6 languages, Tobe Levin completed a B.A. summa cum laude in English; earned an M.A. in French (NYU in Paris); a maitr&icirc;se (l&rsquo;Universit&eacute; de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III); and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Cornell University. A Professor emerita of the University of Maryland University College in Europe, she has taught at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and held visiting scholar positions. Presently an Associate of The Hutchins Center at Harvard under the directorship of Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and an Affiliate of the International Gender Studies Centre at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, she researched female genital mutilation in 2004 as a Visiting Scholar at the Five Colleges Women&rsquo;s Studies Research Center at Mt. Holyoke College, in 2006 at Brandeis University and 2010 at Cornell University. Professional recognition includes the Drazek Teaching Award (1999), the UMUC Presidential Award (2002), the University System of Maryland Regents Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship (2009), and a University of Maryland University College Certificate of Recognition for &ldquo;Notable Scholarly Activity / Professional Publications&rdquo; (2013 and 2014).</p>
<p>On the editorial boards of various academic journals, including the <em>Journal on Female Genital Mutilation and Other Harmful Traditional Practices</em> (Inter-African Committee, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), she has published more than 100 academic and popular articles as well as the edited volumes <em>Violence</em>. <em>&lsquo;Mercurial Gestalt&rsquo;</em> (Rodopi, 2008); <em>Empathy and Rage</em>. <em>Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature</em>. (co-edited with University of Ghana professor Augustine H. Asaah. Oxfordshire, Ayebia, 2009); <em>Waging Empathy. Alice Walker</em>, Possessing the Secret of Joy, <em>and the Global Movement to Ban FGM</em> (Frankfurt am Main: UnCUT/VOICES Press, 2014) and with Maria Kiminta, <em>Kiminta</em>. <em>A Maasai&rsquo;s Fight against Female Genital Mutilation</em> (Frankfurt am Main: UnCUT/VOICES Press, 2015).</p>
<p><img src="{{media url="/certificate_of_the_embassy.jpg"}}" style="float: left; margin: 0 5px 0 0;" />An activist against female genital mutilation since 1977 who has been credited with being among the first in Germany, she founded UnCUT/VOICES Press in 2009; co-founded FORWARD &ndash; Germany in 1998 and the Clitoris Restoration and Fistula Repair Fund (UK charity #1169186) in 2016. She is also honored to serve as a Trustee of the Guardian Global Media Campaign against FGM headed by Maggie O&rsquo;Kane (launched in 2017). Moreover, her work to spare girls from the blade was recognized by the Ingrid Gr&auml;fin zu Solms Human Rights Award on 25 November 2002 in Frankfurt am Main; by a Certificat de Reconnaissance (Certificate of Gratitude) for Services Rendered to the Republic of Mali at the Embassy of Mali in Berlin, 22 September 2010; by the Women&rsquo;s Institute for Freedom of the Press &lsquo;Women and Media Award&rsquo; in Washington, DC. 6 April 2014; and by the Global Woman P.E.A.C.E, Foundation Award for anti-FGM Advocacy in Literature on 21 October 2017.</p>
<p>She blogs at <a href="http://www.uncutvoices.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.uncutvoices.wordpress.com</a>.</p>
<p style="clear: both;"><strong>Our Staff</strong></p>
<p><img alt="" src="{{media url="/staff.png"}}" style="float: left; margin: 0px 5px 0 0;" />The founder&rsquo;s sister, <strong>Rebecca Sue Levin</strong>, an activist in the disability rights movement, assists in the United States in all aspects of the project, from editorial to marketing. With her are strong allies in the fight to end FGM: left to right Alvilda Jablonko, director of FGM activities in No Peace Without Justice founded by the former Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino; Lois Herman, Women&rsquo;s UN Report Network; and Dr. Morissanda Kouyat&eacute;, executive director of the Inter-African Committee.</p>