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1. Sahiyo’s Second Annual Silent Auction & Comedy Show Reflection
(News & Blog)
... talented women by sharing their gifts of inspiration, poetry, artwork, and much more on our social media platforms.  We are especially appreciative of our sponsors who helped make this event possible: ...
Created on 14 March 2024
2. South Asian SOAR launches Zine
(News & Blog)
... features the stories of survivors, told through narratives, poetry, videos, artwork, and more. One of the pieces featured in the Zine is Sahiyo co-founder and Executive Director Mariya Taher’s story Shattered ...
Created on 17 July 2023
3. Reflecting on Sahiyo’s International Women's Day Celebration & Silent Auctio
(News & Blog)
... Zahra Noorbakhsh, Marga Gomez, Pallavi Gunalan, and Zahra Ali. Throughout the rest of the week, we highlighted talented women by sharing their gifts of poetry, artwork, dance, and much more on our social ...
Created on 14 April 2023
4. Self-love to Sunera
(News & Blog)
... and facing the monsters in the face. It's saying it loud and clear, enough. It is to make of your entrails, deliberate poetry. It's allowing yourself to exist without shortcuts, nor rhymes that others compose ...
Created on 30 January 2023
5. Sahiyo Discusses: You Still Look the Same, a discussion with Farzana Doctor
(News & Blog)
In our latest Sahiyo Discusses event, which took place on September 21st, we were joined by Farzana Doctor, to discuss her newly released poetry book, You Still Look the Same. A profoundly moving collection ...
Created on 24 October 2022
6. Sahiyo Discusses book club holds next event in September
(News & Blog)
... Dear Maasi, a sex and relationships column on Sahiyo’s blog for FGC survivors. Her newest collection of poetry, You Still Look the Same, is both an intimate deep-dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous ...
Created on 04 August 2022
7. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Farzana
(News & Blog)
... What are some of your passions? Writing, traveling, reading, activism What does an average day look like for you? 8am-9am: meditate and check social media; 9am-12pm: write novels/poetry; 12pm-2pm: walk ...
Created on 28 November 2020
8. Voices to End FGM/C Launch: 27 survivors and activists create videos to share their stories
(News & Blog)
... share this process with other women was a beautiful process of collective empowerment that allowed us not to be invisible and do so while using our imagination, art, poetry, music, colours.” The program ...
Created on 05 February 2020
9. Voices to End FGM/C
(Uncategorised)
... Sharing this process with other women was a beautiful process of collective empowerment that allowed us to be visible, while using our imagination, art, poetry, music, and colours.”  –Storyteller Su ...
Created on 13 December 2019
10. Discovering female genital cutting in my community
(News & Blog)
... My aunt is more liberal and expressive; she writes poetry and is an activist in her own ways. Surely, she would have more to say about this. She told me it was done supposedly to moderate a woman’s sexual ...
Created on 18 June 2019
11. Sahiyo’s Second Annual Silent Auction & Comedy Show Reflection
(News & Blog)
... talented women by sharing their gifts of inspiration, poetry, artwork, and much more on our social media platforms.  We are especially appreciative of our sponsors who helped make this event possible: ...
Created on 14 March 2024
12. South Asian SOAR launches Zine
(News & Blog)
... features the stories of survivors, told through narratives, poetry, videos, artwork, and more. One of the pieces featured in the Zine is Sahiyo co-founder and Executive Director Mariya Taher’s story Shattered ...
Created on 17 July 2023
13. Reflecting on Sahiyo’s International Women's Day Celebration & Silent Auctio
(News & Blog)
... Zahra Noorbakhsh, Marga Gomez, Pallavi Gunalan, and Zahra Ali. Throughout the rest of the week, we highlighted talented women by sharing their gifts of poetry, artwork, dance, and much more on our social ...
Created on 14 April 2023
14. Self-love to Sunera
(News & Blog)
... and facing the monsters in the face. It's saying it loud and clear, enough. It is to make of your entrails, deliberate poetry. It's allowing yourself to exist without shortcuts, nor rhymes that others compose ...
Created on 30 January 2023
15. Sahiyo Discusses: You Still Look the Same, a discussion with Farzana Doctor
(News & Blog)
In our latest Sahiyo Discusses event, which took place on September 21st, we were joined by Farzana Doctor, to discuss her newly released poetry book, You Still Look the Same. A profoundly moving collection ...
Created on 24 October 2022
16. Sahiyo Discusses book club holds next event in September
(News & Blog)
... Dear Maasi, a sex and relationships column on Sahiyo’s blog for FGC survivors. Her newest collection of poetry, You Still Look the Same, is both an intimate deep-dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous ...
Created on 04 August 2022
17. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Farzana
(News & Blog)
... What are some of your passions? Writing, traveling, reading, activism What does an average day look like for you? 8am-9am: meditate and check social media; 9am-12pm: write novels/poetry; 12pm-2pm: walk ...
Created on 28 November 2020
18. Voices to End FGM/C Launch: 27 survivors and activists create videos to share their stories
(News & Blog)
... share this process with other women was a beautiful process of collective empowerment that allowed us not to be invisible and do so while using our imagination, art, poetry, music, colours.” The program ...
Created on 05 February 2020
19. Voices to End FGM/C
(Uncategorised)
... Sharing this process with other women was a beautiful process of collective empowerment that allowed us to be visible, while using our imagination, art, poetry, music, and colours.”  –Storyteller Su ...
Created on 13 December 2019
20. Discovering female genital cutting in my community
(News & Blog)
... My aunt is more liberal and expressive; she writes poetry and is an activist in her own ways. Surely, she would have more to say about this. She told me it was done supposedly to moderate a woman’s sexual ...
Created on 18 June 2019
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      • Critical Intersections
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