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41. When Thaal Pe Charcha participants met Mumbai's Veteran Activist
(News & Blog)
... to interact with participants and share their experiences, struggles and the knowledge gained in their journeys as women’s rights advocates.  One of the activists was Flavia Agnes, a veteran feminist ...
Created on 12 January 2020
42. Intern Spotlight: Sahiyo Social Media Intern Kavya Palavalasa
(News & Blog)
... resources that Sahiyo offers are incredibly helpful in starting a constructive conversation about female genital cutting with absolutely anyone. We must not forget that the strength of our feminist movement ...
Created on 14 December 2019
43. The complexities of female genital cutting in Singapore: Part IV
(News & Blog)
... and feminist activists, I slowly clarified my parents’ beliefs, and today they no longer see it as mandatory (“though still good to do”), but I do think chipping away at their long-held beliefs has been ...
Created on 18 July 2019
44. Sahiyo's Second Annual Retreat: A Space for Healing and Reflectio
(News & Blog)
... end gender-based violence. Linda Kay Klein, a feminist who was brought up as an evangelical Christian, discussed her recent book Pure, and the challenges she has faced with speaking up in her community. ...
Created on 16 July 2019
45. 'A Pinch of Skin' to Screen in Berli
(News & Blog)
... in Ireland, also known as the 8th Amendment. This is especially significant as a successful contemporary feminist movement, where women of Ireland voted against the ban on abortion, influencing pro-choice ...
Created on 12 June 2019
46. Sahiyo Stories Shown at Reconference In Nepal
(News & Blog)
... feminism, art, and technology by rethinking, reimagining, and rebooting how to build an inclusive feminist vision of justice.  Sahiyo Stories, a digital storytelling project organized and created by Sahiyo ...
Created on 07 June 2019
47. My experience of healing by attending the 2019 Sahiyo Activist Retreat in the U.S.
(News & Blog)
... name right then. But, after a week of reflection, I can name it now: the Sahiyo facilitators created an intentional space of respect and safety, and then twenty-one feminist Bohri women stepped into ...
Created on 18 April 2019
48. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... would upset the international human rights community such as the United Nations and NGOs as well as receive backlash from the local feminist community. On the other hand, criticising FGC might be seen ...
Created on 19 March 2019
49. Thaal Pe Charcha Launches in California
(News & Blog)
... another that we are not alone in these struggles.  We are all figuring out how to practice our faith with feminist values. This means challenging certain social norms that are oppressive to women, such ...
Created on 15 November 2018
50. Topple the system- question the microaggressions
(News & Blog)
... We think, “It doesn’t happen to us, we don’t do that in our community”. However, as my feminist friend rightly remarked, “We must then observe and understand the microaggressions that happen within our ...
Created on 04 October 2018
51. U.S. Advisory Board
(News & Blog)
... and History from Carnegie Mellon University. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2005. Alisha also serves on the Board of Bitch Media, a feminist media organization. She is an avid gamer and science ...
Created on 16 September 2018
52. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration Live Kick-Off Event (2023-03-08)
(Events Calendar/Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration Live Kick-Off Event)
... event to help raise awareness and funds to support Sahiyo’s work to end female genital cutting and support survivors to heal. Zahra is a Feminist Muslim, Iranian-American comedian, story producer at Snap ...
Created on 05 February 2023
53. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration Live Kick-Off Event (08 March 2023 20:00)
(Events / Fundraising Event)
... listen,” by Oprah Magazine, will be headlining a live virtual event to help raise awareness and funds to support Sahiyo’s work to end female genital cutting and support survivors to heal. Zahra is a Feminist ...
Created on 28 March 2023
54. Remembering Egyptian feminist’s heroic fight against female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
By Madrisha Debnath Despite the fact that the mother of Egyptian Feminist Movement Nawal El Saadawi died at age 89 earlier this year, her fight against patriarchy lives on. Born in 1931, she was an Egyptian ...
Created on 08 August 2021
55. Introducing Nala Feminist Collective: African Women and The 10 Demands, including ending female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... kindness and actual solutions. Our feminist ancestors have taught us that what brings us together is our Pan-African solidarity. As African women, we will not allow anyone to keep us quiet. We know and ...
Created on 18 May 2021
56. Sahiyo teams up with Feminist Challenge 2K17
(News & Blog)
During the week of February 6th, Sahiyo connected with Feminist Challenge to create a challenge around the topic of FGC.  Feminist Challenge is an online newsletter created to encourage men to approach ...
Created on 14 March 2017
57. Supporting Survivors in the LGBTQIA+ Community: How Sahiyo Helped Afiqa Attend the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week
(News & Blog)
... cut was a human rights violation at a feminist-led comprehensive sexuality education workshop. I asked my mother, who readily confirmed that under her instructions, my older sister had brought me to a ...
Created on 06 February 2025
58. Sahiyo research uplifts how intersectionality impacts the movement to end FGM/C this February 6th
(News & Blog)
... other social justice movements, strengthens our overall work to end FGM/C.   Speakers:  Aarefa Johari is a journalist and feminist activist based in Mumbai, India. She has been advocating for an end ...
Created on 06 February 2025
59. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... and discourses around feminist agency reasoning was eye-opening.  So during my second pregnancy, I wasn’t surprised when some educated women around me casually asked whether I would try for a boy next ...
Created on 24 December 2024
60. On My Own Terms
(News & Blog)
... other forms of gender-based violence and oppression because, in many ways, they are all interconnected.  Musu Bakoto Sawo is a feminist human rights lawyer ...
Created on 05 November 2024