Sudanese women were robbed of the rights to their own bodies throughout the modern ages enduring brutal and unfathomable forms of oppression, abuse, and violations from “Face Sacrification”, “Genital Body Mutilation, “The Leather Strips Ripping (Cutting Al Rahat) a Barbaric Wedding Custom”, to “Fistula” from the Rope Birthing Process, as well as denial of basic civil rights. “Heroic Bodies” explore the various forms of the Sudanese Women’s struggle and resistance to take back their God-given rights to their bodies as well as establish their rights of existence in their Societies and Communities. Utilizing Body Politics techniques in Political Resistance, through demonstrations, civil disobedience, and hunger strikes, exposing themselves to imprisonment and torture; their persistent pursuit of the right to Education, enrollment in scientific training in Public Health and Midwifery, breaking the social norms by becoming artists and Entertainers, as well as embracing a Matriarchal Religion of women worship like “Zar”, where women are allowed to let their bodies run wild.

TRIGGER WARNING: This film mentions experiences with Female Genital Mutilation and reinfibulation which is a medical procedure done to women without their consent.