'No uterus, no vagina' - Wani Ardy's mission to normalise sexual health conversations

MALAYSIANSKINI | Once known only as the "girl with the guitar", 36-year-old Wani Ardy found her voice through music and the spoken word and is now on a mission to normalise conversations surrounding sexual health.

In the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Subang Jaya native released her debut full-length album Raskat last year and is involved in several ongoing writing projects.

Wani Ardy is the stage name for Nur Syazwani Abdul Rahim, a former lecturer who also goes by the name Guritno Purwakanti, a moniker chosen as a tribute to her love for poetry and her late grandfather's Javanese ancestry.

She is also a woman born without a uterus and with an underdeveloped vagina, a rare condition known as Mayer Rokitansky Kuster Hause (MRKH). While little is known about it, it impacts one in every 5,000 women.

Wani's journey to raise public awareness led to her latest assignment where she was a script advisor for a local television drama that featured a leading character with MRKH.

The chosen title "Rahimah Tanpa Rahim" caught public attention even before the series was aired, with some netizens questioning whether "Rahim" was a man's name or a literal reference to a woman's uterus which they claimed...