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81. Sahiyo stands with AAPI communities experiencing racist violence
(News & Blog)
... there are resources meant to support and protect Asian women. You can also check out powerful zine, Asian American Feminist Antibodies , a collaboration between the Asian American Feminist Collective ...
Created on 26 April 2021
82. The End FGM European Network hosts webinar: “Addressing female genital mutilation while leaving no one behind”
(News & Blog)
... in February. The speakers of the event included Helena Dalli, EU Commissioner for Equality; Aïda Yancy, an LGBTQ+ feminist, anti-racist activist currently working at RainbowHouse Brussels and an expert ...
Created on 29 March 2021
83. Four women who were pivotal to the movement to end female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... for women and girls. Nawal El Saadawi & her brutal honesty Nawal El Saadawi, a doctor, feminist and writer, who was born in a community outside of Cairo, Egypt, was a survivor of FGC. She campaigned ...
Created on 25 March 2021
84. Sahiyo in the Media
(News & Blog)
... a global response. 2019 Filmmaker Insia Tells Us How She Saved 4 Girls From Female Genital Cutting In 2019, Let’s Do Our Bit By Donating To These 7 Feminists NGOs “Don’t Mention It” Episode ...
Created on 02 March 2021
85. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Zenab
(News & Blog)
... to describe you? Islamic feminist and human rights activist   What are your hobbies?   Reading, writing and cooking   What is your profession or what career would you like to be in? I was a university ...
Created on 09 December 2020
86. Voices to End FGM/C
(Programs)
... always wanted to know more about FGM/C, or if you’re wondering why, as a feminist or social justice activist, you should care about the topic, tune in now. All episodes are available on the Voices to End ...
Created on 03 December 2020
87. Sahiyo participated in key virtual events with global organizations in October
(News & Blog)
... the hierarchy of suffering and about inter-/national feminist ambivalences? Council of the Great City Schools Fall Conference  Council of the Great City Schools held its 64th Annual Fall Conference ...
Created on 18 November 2020
88. From Saving Safa to Seven: How authors use writing to shed light on FGC
(News & Blog)
... and The Subtweet “Seven is an intimate, gutsy feminist novel that exposes the lasting, individual impacts of making women’s bodies fodder for displays of religious obeisance.”—Michelle Anne Schingler, ...
Created on 08 October 2020
89. Research study explores female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... qualitative survey and feminist focus group discussions, both anchored online, to explore the links between the need for privacy and feminist-led advocacy in the existing public conversations and contestations ...
Created on 29 September 2020
90. SEVEN, the first novel of its kind to address female genital cutting in the Bohra community, releases this month
(News & Blog)
... more than she imagined. 2016 is a time of unrest within her insular and conservative religious community, and there is no escaping its politics. A group of feminists is speaking out against khatna, an ...
Created on 13 September 2020
91. We are listening: Sahiyo's statement on protests against police brutalit
(News & Blog)
... by Nelson Mandela Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks Listen: About Race Code ...
Created on 05 June 2020
92. An ode to every woman fighting social norms around the world
(News & Blog)
... does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists ...
Created on 27 February 2020
93. Intern Spotlight: Sahiyo Social Media Intern Farhan Zia
(News & Blog)
... intersections of law with human rights, gender and religion, and has a deep interest in engaging with theology and religion from a feminist and modern perspective. He is a student researcher at the FGM ...
Created on 14 January 2020
94. 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
95. 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
96. 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
97. Sahiyo's Second Annual Retreat: A Space for Healing and Reflectio
(News & Blog)
... with other faith communities working to 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 ...
Created on 16 July 2019
98. '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
99. 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
100. 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
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