This is a collection of first hand accounts told by victims, survivors, and participants of forced genital cuttings including stories of male infant circumcisions, female genital mutilations, and gender-norming surgeries.

The purpose of Project: OUCH! is to acknowledge victims’ suffering of having had their genitals forcibly cut, altered, or mutilated. We have created a weblog to accomplish this. We call it blOUCH! It is a place where victims and survivors can tell how they have been physically, spiritually, or emotionally harmed from forced genital cutting.