Furore about Female Genital Cutting in Kerala: Impact of Sahiyo’s investigation

some level of acceptance and support for FGC amongst a considerable number of followers. Not surprisingly, almost all the voices defending FGC on Malayalam social media are those of men. Women’s voices are nowhere to be heard.

StoryCenter-A digital storytelling workshop for Bohra women in the United States

StoryCenter led a digital storytelling workshop in collaboration with the Women’s Foundation of California to highlight the voices of women who participated in the Women’s Policy Institute. As an alumni of this program, I was invited to attend and share...

Sahiyo staff spoke in a symposia entitled Mothers and daughters: continuity, love, fear and belonging

of becoming invested in, or complicit with, systemic injustice?” Taher and Kingstone discussed and presented Sahiyo’s Voices to End FGM/C: Using Storytelling to Shift Social Norms & Enhance Prevention as part of the panel on Mothers and daughters:...

Sahiyo Volunteer Spotlight: Isabel Panno Shepard

months after I graduated from Duke University last spring. When I came across the job listing and read about programs like Voices to End FGM/C, I wanted to be a part of Sahiyo’s mission to end FGC through survivor-centered advocacy and collective...

Webinar: Female genital cutting is an under-recognized form of gender-based violence in the U.S.

also answered the audience’s questions about their work and experience. Like many Sahiyo events, we also utilized the Voices to End FGM/C films throughout the presentation to help contextualize what the audience was learning and help them understand the...

UnChained At Last: The United States’ Child Marriage Problem webinar reflection

Girls You Have Destroyed, filmed by survivors of child marriage. By highlighting the stories of survivors (not unlike the Voices to End FGM/C videos by Sahiyo) they were able to show the real impact of this issue and highlight its deeply personal...

Sahiyo partners with FAWCO to lead an educational webinar on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States

but that data collection is in its early stages. In another part of the webinar, various survivor stories from the Voices to End FGC project were introduced. Renee Bergstrom’s story was particularly powerful in addressing and disrupting common...

Sahiyo staff spotlight: Editorial coordinator Rachel Wine

lies at the intersection of activism and storytelling, and she loves supporting Sahiyo’s work of elevating survivors’ voices for the empowerment of women everywhere. When and how did you first get involved with Sahiyo? I first started working with...

A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor

can become better at meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ survivors. The goal of this panel is to center and uplift the voices of LGBTQ+ FGC survivors whose identities and needs are too often pushed to the margin of conversations on FGC. This webinar will also...

Willing To Learn

workshop was an opportunity that came by and seemed interesting. After the first meeting and learning more about the Voices To End FGM/C program, I was even more intrigued. I wanted to be able to create a story that people would feel deeply and find...

Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor

respectful, and welcoming to survivors of all gender identities. The event began with two powerful videos from our 2022 Voices to End FGM/C cohort, which were recently released to the public. Dena Igusti’s On being a Nonbinary Survivor of FGM/C...

Sahiyo India holds guest lecture for students in Mumbai

which had over 50 student attendees. The session began with the screening of two short films from Sahiyo and StoryCentre's Voices to End FGM/C series: Why by Fakhera, and A Chorus of Voices by Aarefa. The lecture then helped students understand what FGC...

Sahiyo and StoryCenter to host parallel session at the 65th Commission on the Status of Women meetings

at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women meetings. At this event, we will introduce our collaborative Voices to End FGM/C project, which centers on storytelling by survivors and those affected by female genital mutilation/cutting...

Bhaiyo engages male allies to empower communities to end female genital cutting during June campaign

we hope to show other men who have not yet become involved in Sahiyo’s work that there is a spot for them and that their voices are crucial in ending FGC. Additionally, we hope to elevate the voices of our amazing male allies who are already engaged in...

Celebrating October 11th - International Day of the Girl Child

Los Angeles. Speakers included: Athia Carrim, Dr. Nina Smart, Mariya Taher, Dr. Brenda Kaye Ingram, Muluemebet Alemayehu. Voices to End FGM/C - A discussion-based event to uplift storytellers from the Voices to End FGM/C digital storytelling project and...

Why sex educators need to know about female genital cutting (FGC)

and eagerly accepted. I covered what FGC is and why it is performed, and interlaced this with survivor testimonies from the Voices to End FGM/C project, a digital storytelling workshop that Sahiyo co-hosts. I also made sure to address any myths that...

FGM/C from an artist’s perspective: Art for cultural change

Sahiyo releases July 2021-June 2022 Annual Report

features comic strips based on real-life stories by activists, advocates, and allies working to end FGC. We hosted our 6th Voices to End FGM/C workshop with 9 participants, bringing the total number of videos created by the program to 55 participants...

Activists Retreat Reflection: Umme's experience

was what being safe truly felt like. I sat, listened, and heard my thoughts, fears, and emotions echoed back to me in the voices of those who — like me — had either gone through or knew someone who had endured an injustice the likes of which I still...

Empowering Muslim Women through Storytelling: A Roundtable Discussion

Description: With the rise of Islamophobia in mainstream media, the need to produce alternative narratives that amplify the voices of Muslim women telling their own stories has never been greater. In the last few years, storytelling collectives like the...