What Does It Mean to Be A 29-Year-Old Woman Without Her Ovaries? Top image from 'Send Me to the Clouds' by Teng Congcong. RICE is the official media partner of SGIFF 2019. Sometime after I started menstruating, my mom told me that my grandma had had her uterus and one ovary removed. I was bewildered: was it possible to remove an entire sexual organ? I had by Marianne Chua November 5, 2019