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1. FAQs
Created on 30 November -0001
2. The forgotten history of female genital cutting in the United States
(News & Blog)
... prevailing attitudes toward women's sexuality and health of the time period, which included misconceptions about the female anatomy, a tendency to pathologize women's sexual desires, and a patriarchal medical ...
Created on 24 October 2024
3. FGM/C Sexual Education & Prevention: An Interview with Dr. Reham Awwad
(News & Blog)
...  “I usually like to explain specifically about the clitoris – the anatomy of it, how it works. We talk about reaching orgasms, how a woman reaches them, and the misconceptions that are around vaginal ...
Created on 13 November 2023
4. Volunteer spotlight: Development Intern Shatize Pope
(News & Blog)
... her anatomy.  What words of wisdom would you like to share with others who may be interested in supporting Sahiyo and the movement against FGC? Sahiyo is giving a voice to the voiceless while bringing ...
Created on 03 August 2022
5. Consent and gender imbalance: their role in female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... like they are the same thing. Different anatomy, different reasons, and different agendas cannot be clumped together under a single umbrella, as though they are the one and the same. To me, this is not ...
Created on 10 February 2022
6. Reflecting on the 'How to Stop The Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia' webina
(News & Blog)
... expressed how FGC injures much more than the child’s anatomy - any child that suffers unwanted touch will deal with a myriad of mental and psychological effects. However, Kalpana notes that this trauma ...
Created on 09 February 2022
7. Dear Maasi talks about clitoral anatomy
(News & Blog)
Dear Maasi is a column about everything you wanted to know about sex and relationships but were afraid to ask! It’s a partnership between Sahiyo and WeSpeakOut, and is for all of us who have questions ...
Created on 19 July 2021
8. Voices Series: How listening to survivor's stories made me a better advocat
(News & Blog)
... care advocacy, family medicine providers are best positioned to support patient sexuality with initial and ongoing training in female anatomy, counseling strategies on gender orientation and sexual positivity, ...
Created on 16 June 2020
9. Survivor: Why labia elongation is female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... lips of the vulva, arguably one of the most sensitive parts of female anatomy.  “The men in our culture expect that you have your labia the (length) of your middle finger,” Comfort said. “For the first ...
Created on 06 February 2020
10. Discovering female genital cutting in my community
(News & Blog)
... else speaking up about this?  I attended medical school and the more I learned about female anatomy, the more upset I got thinking about FGC. I felt powerless until I heard a friend talking about Sahiyo. ...
Created on 18 June 2019
11. How doctors responded to my genital mutilation: An American woman's 70-year journe
(News & Blog)
... me pictures of normal female genitalia in an anatomy book and said, “Renee, you don’t look like other women.” He thought I could have had a bike accident as a child. He was shocked when I told him my story. ...
Created on 26 February 2019
12. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 5: The “C” Word… and I Don’t Mean Circumcision
(News & Blog)
... Yet, from ancient times to the present, the anatomy of the clitoris has been discovered, repressed, and rediscovered. Hippocrates, the Greek physician, born circa 460 B.C., called the clitoris “columella”: ...
Created on 28 September 2018
13. On The Supreme Court Hearings and The Pro-Khatna FAQs Circulated by Bohras
(News & Blog)
... over the world to get a part of their anatomy removed for no reason. But what scares me is that even if it gets banned, the practice may go underground and still continue. A few members of the Bohra ...
Created on 23 August 2018
14. The subject was heavy, but my heart felt light: My experience at Sahiyo’s StoryCenter workshop
(News & Blog)
... Being a survivor of FGC is a multi-faceted experience. It affects so much more than just anatomy. Even though all of these stories are tied together by the common thread of FGC, they capture so many different ...
Created on 14 August 2018
15. Why men too must speak out against Khatna
(News & Blog)
... a research on the individual experience of Khatna and its effects. Read her other articles in this series – Khatna Research in Mumbai. Khatna, by virtue of being related to female anatomy, is often ...
Created on 27 July 2018
16. Sahiyo U.S. Activists Retreat: A reflection
(News & Blog)
...  I knew nothing about anatomy, or laws, or religious texts, or social rituals surrounding khatna.  I learned everything I possibly could through talking to others in my community, including activists, ...
Created on 09 February 2018
17. Khatna among Suleimanis, from the perspective of an 'outsider
(News & Blog)
... did it to her as a child. I was enraged and worried and immediately took a closer interest in the anatomy of the clitoris, in order to try and understand the implications. It turned out we were fortunate. ...
Created on 11 March 2017
18. From birth to motherhood, a Singaporean Malay’s experience of Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... us. Working adult: I became a nurse. I studied, learned, saw the anatomy of the human body. As a nurse, I cleaned the vagina of women of different ethnicities. Of course, I noticed the difference. ...
Created on 13 February 2017
19. When Sahyog gave Sahiyo an opportunity to engage with young students
(News & Blog)
... talking about the female genital anatomy to explain what Bohras typically cut during circumcision, we realised that most of the girls had never heard of the clitoris, and were not taught about its existence ...
Created on 08 October 2016
20. Community Outreach
(Uncategorised)
... of a movement against it and the obstacles faced by those in the movement. This opens a window to several other discussions relevant to the audience in question: discussions about anatomy, bodily integrity, ...
Created on 05 October 2016