I Gusti Ayu (Ayik) Aryoni

Language is a means of communication. That was what I learned in college. Humans use it to express their feelings, emotions, and ideas. There are so many languages in this world, and every language has its own history and uniqueness.

In Indonesia, students’ scores in the National Examination have shown poor results in the subject of Indonesian language. While it is not a really good parameter. According to the headfoundation.org in their article “Education in Indonesia: Literacy is the Key to L

My brother just had his second child and it’s another girl. Our relative came to see her and some of them joked that it was unfortunate that she was born a girl, instead of a boy. I was appalled by their remarks, but my family took them lightly because they had also expected a boy. But I also can’t deny that I had expected a nephew, and feel disgusted with myself.

Women are always number two in my family. My parents favored my brother more; he always gets what he wants and it seems OK for him t

I am a woman, and I have never menstruated, nor will I ever.

When I hit puberty, I watched with envy as one by one my friends had their first period. My mother initially thought that I was just late bloomer. But when I still didn’t get my period in my last year of high school, my parents decided that I should see a gynecologist.

The doctor diagnosed me with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome. It’s a congenital condition in which a woman is born either without a vagina and uterus, o