Monthly Archive

2019

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 85 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.

Seeking Storytellers for Voices to End FGM/C - A U.S. based digital storytelling workshop

07 Apr

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Seeking Storytellers for Voices to End FGM/C - A U.S. based digital storytelling workshop

For the second year, Sahiyo and StoryCenter will collaborate to host a 3-day in-person, U.S. based digital storytelling workshop from September 20th-22nd, 2019 for survivors of Female Genital Cutting/... read more..

06 Apr

News & Blog

Sahiyo

My experience at the Sahiyo U.S. Activist Retreat made me reflect on my khatna

By Anonymous Country of Residence: United States Age: 45 years old I often wondered what the two women closest to me thought about khatna. I wondered because I never really talked with my ... read more..

Sahiyo's New Video Campaign: No More Female Genital Cutting -Volunteers Share Their Stories

02 Apr

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Sahiyo's New Video Campaign: No More Female Genital Cutting -Volunteers Share Their Stories

As April is known as Sexual Assault Awareness month, as well as a National Child Abuse Prevention Month and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is an issue which lies at the pivotal intersections between the... read more..

21 Mar

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Survivor of Mumbai: Plight to End Female Genital Cutting

By Brionna Wiggins (An alias was provided to protect the survivor’s identity and family.) There was once a girl who was seven-years-old in Mumbai, India. She and her mother visited a woman so that she... read more..

Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Issue?

20 Mar

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Issue?

By Maryah Haidery Country of Residence: United States Last month, the Columbia University South Asian Feminisms Alliance organized a panel discussion in New York City to discuss female genital mutilat... read more..

The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore

19 Mar

News & Blog

Sahiyo

The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore

By Saza Faradilla Country of Residence: Singapore This blogpost is the first in a four-part series about female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore. This first installment details the historical, socia... read more..

17 Mar

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Sahiyo Staff Spotlight: Lara Kingstone

Lara Kingstone started her career in community organizing in a UK-based program designed to integrate London communities and empower youth to become active and engaged citizens. Lara earned a BA in Po... read more..

12 Mar

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Wrestling with trust and fear in regard to female genital mutilation

By Farzana Esmaeel Country of Residence: United Arab Emirates Trust and fear are two emotions that have an interesting correlation to input and output of human behavior. One emotion, trust, establishe... read more..

Experiencing Sahiyo’s Activist Retreat in Mumbai

07 Mar

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Experiencing Sahiyo’s Activist Retreat in Mumbai

By Xenobia Country of Residence: India There are those who talk about change, and then there are those who do things and bring about the change. I would like to tell you about the time I decided... read more..

The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation

05 Mar

News & Blog

Sahiyo

The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation

by Lorraine Koonce-Farahmand In the Zero Tolerance campaign to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), what has been noted is the arc of progress. Increasingly, women and men from practising groups have ... read more..

28 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

The importance of creating a body of knowledge on female genital cutting

By Cameron Adelman My ultimate career goal is to work in sexual health with underserved populations. Access to sexual and reproductive health services is incredibly difficult in most states in the Un... read more..

How doctors responded to my genital mutilation: An American woman's 70-year journey

26 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

How doctors responded to my genital mutilation: An American woman's 70-year journey

By A. Renee Bergstrom, EdD Country of Residence: United States Renee chronicles her experiences with American physicians from the time she was cut at three years of age until seventy years later when... read more..

Voices to End FGM/C: Seeking artists for social norm change project

24 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Voices to End FGM/C: Seeking artists for social norm change project

Sahiyo is thrilled to announce the “Voices to End FGM/C” global storytelling project in collaboration with StoryCenter , which will support a group of ten women who have experienced female genital mut... read more..

Voices to End FGM/C: Seeking Storytellers for Social Norm Change

23 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Voices to End FGM/C: Seeking Storytellers for Social Norm Change

This year, Sahiyo looks forward to continuing our partnership with StoryCenter, a community-arts organization that has for 20+ years worked with grassroots groups on participatory digital storytelling... read more..

21 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

My decision as a mother to not cut my daughters

By Masuma Kothari Country of Residence: United Kingdom A vivid memory of my cut has lived through so many years that I can recall the entire act. This experience always intrigued me and it did lead m... read more..

19 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries

By Debangana Chatterjee Though films and documentaries related to female genital cutting (FGC) promise to uphold the realities surrounding the subject, there are undeniable strings of subjective inter... read more..

Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance

05 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance

By Debangana Chatterjee The reasons why female genital cutting (FGC) continues are multifarious and overlapping. Complex and interconnected sets of reasons for FGC are woven into the faiths of th... read more..

Sahiyo and StoryCenter win the #EndFGM Positive Action Challenge

01 Feb

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Sahiyo and StoryCenter win the #EndFGM Positive Action Challenge

In May 2018, Sahiyo and StoryCenter, hosted a digital storytelling workshop where FGC survivors from across the U.S. could come together to share their experiences. In September 2018, the digital stor... read more..

A Nigerian Nurse's Perspective on Female Genital Cutting

29 Jan

News & Blog

Sahiyo

A Nigerian Nurse's Perspective on Female Genital Cutting

By Brionna Wiggins Female genital cutting (FGC) occurs in many countries around the world. Through my future posts, I hope to explore a few of these places by meeting with those who can speak on them.... read more..

A mother's side of the story on female genital cutting

22 Jan

News & Blog

Sahiyo

A mother's side of the story on female genital cutting

By Priya Ahluwalia Priya is a 22-year-old clinical psychology student at Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Mumbai. She is passionate about mental health, photography, and writing. She is currently ... read more..

Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018

16 Jan

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018

For everyone invested in laws and norms around the practices of FGC, 2018 was an incredibly eventful year. On January 22nd, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Liberian president and first female head of st... read more..

15 Jan

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Reflections on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting & Intergenerational Trauma

By Anonymous Country of Residence: United States I am not a survivor of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). In fact, my father is vehemently opposed to the practice. Even though I was shielded ... read more..

Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Maryum Saifee

14 Jan

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Maryum Saifee

As Sahiyo’s U.S. operations and programs have grown, in 2018, we invited various individuals from a host of backgrounds and professions to join our inaugural U.S. Advisory Board. The advisory board pr... read more..

Sahiyo Stories screened in Massachusetts

07 Jan

News & Blog

Sahiyo

Sahiyo Stories screened in Massachusetts

In May 2018, the Sahiyo Stories project brought together nine women from across the United States to create personalized digital stories that narrate the experience of undergoing female genital mutila... read more..

01 Jan

News & Blog

Sahiyo

A response to the letter written by Tasneem Yunus Burhani, Mubaraka Tambawala, Farida Mustafa Hussain, Fatemah Hussain, and Shakera Bohra published in Detroit News

By Umme Kulsoom Arif In response to your letter published in The Detroit News, “Dawoodi Bohra Women of Detroit speak up,” I write to you as a woman who grew up in a part of the Dawoodi Bohra community... read more..