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  • Voices Series: How listening to survivor's stories made me a better advocate

    storytelling, Voices to End FGM/C enables those who have been affected by female genital mutilation/cutting to tell their stories through their own perspectives, in their own words. By Karen Kwok, MSN, FNP-BC I sought participation in the Voices to End...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/voices-series-how-listening.html

  • FAQs

    to End FGM/C, has had several Bohra participants, among others, encourage communities to end cutting through short digital stories detailing their experiences. All for “Izzat” The Practice of Female Circumcision among Dawoodi Bohra Muslims in India, by...

    https://sahiyo.org/component/content/article/faqs.html?catid=2&Itemid=101

  • We must realise that there is an alternative to khatna

    and painful. After, I started to explore the subject more. I read about female circumcision and came across horrifying stories from Africa. I stumbled into many stories of khatna told by the women around me. I had started to understand the terrifying...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/we-must-realise-that.html

  • Our Petition

    many of us have faced within our own communities, our advocacy work is starting to pay off. In the last year, we have place stories in mainstream publications – like the Guardian and Hindustan Times. In 2015, Sahiyo pursued a small-scale study to...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/our-petition.html

  • Sahiyo and Khatna survivors get attacked online through ‘organized trolling’

    the personal experiences of others who have had negative experiences with FGC and have taken the courage to share their stories. While we disagree with pro-khatna rhetoric which has been passed down since generations within the community, we — and the...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/sahiyo-and-khatna.html

  • Sahiyo's Second Annual Retreat: A Space for Healing and Reflection

    in the Bohra community — have come in such a short time. Before 2016, only a handful of survivors had publicly shared their stories and many were anonymous blog posts. The intense community backlash for speaking out has prevented many from being able to...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/sahiyos-second-annual-retreat-healing.html

  • Voices Series: Why we must break the silence of FGM/C

    storytelling, Voices to End FGM/C enables those who have been affected by female genital mutilation/cutting to tell their stories through their own perspectives, in their own words. By Anonymous I’ve been speaking about female genital mutilation (FGM)...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/voices-series-why-we-must-break-the-silence-of-fgm-c.html

  • Voices Series: How I reconnected with my purpose through storytelling

    storytelling, Voices to End FGM/C enables those who have been affected by female genital mutilation/cutting to tell their stories through their own perspectives, in their own words. By Nonya Khedr Sahiyo and StoryCenter created a remarkable experience...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/voices-series-how-i-reconnected.html

  • Voices Series: Why your story is worth sharing

    storytelling, Voices to End FGM/C enables those who have been affected by female genital mutilation/cutting to tell their stories through their own perspectives, in their own words. By Mariam Sabir I walked into the workshop thinking, “I should’ve just...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/voices-series-why-your-story-is-worth-sharing.html

  • Sahiyo participated in key virtual events with global organizations in October

    Since 1993, StoryCenter has collaborated with individuals, grassroots groups, and organizations to centralize first-person stories in social justice efforts. The current political reality demands ever-more creative approaches to advocacy. On Oct 14th,...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/sahiyo-participated-in-key-virtual-events-with-global-organizations-in-october.html

  • Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly

    that speaking out is a “defamation of the faith, its leader and those who practice” khatna. Her piece was one of the top 50 stories of the year for Broadview Magazine in 2020. As she suspected, many women sought her out to share their stories of having...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/bohra-woman-shared-her-experience-pakistan.html

  • My experience of learning about female genital cutting: An outsider’s perspective

    sensory nerve endings. I kept on watching and re-watching documentaries, the narratives on FGC, and listening to survivors’ stories. The more I listened to their stories in an attempt to understand the social process, the more I felt the survivors’...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/my-experience-of-learning-about-fgc.html

  • Voices reflection: Feeling connected even when you may not be

    at the same time? How do you find answers and solace from strangers across continents? It is through experiences and stories. That’s what Sahiyo and Storycenter’s Voices to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) program brought to me. The Sahiyo...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/voices-reflection-feeling-connected.html

  • Voices reflection: Sharing my narrative

    years. In my head, the Voices program was an in-person workshop where a community of people got together to share their stories. However, COVID-19 happened, and this in-person experience was transformed into a virtual series. I was nervous going into...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/voices-reflection-sharing-my-narrative.html

  • Sahiyo partners with FAWCO to lead an educational webinar on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States

    which sounded promising, but that data collection is in its early stages. In another part of the webinar, various survivor stories from the Voices to End FGC project were introduced. Renee Bergstrom’s story was particularly powerful in addressing and...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/sahiyo-partners-fawco-lead-educational-webinar-female-genital-mutilation-cutting-united-states.html

  • Sahiyo staff spotlight: Programs assistant Meg Sinnott

    that my mother sat down and told me about; instead, it trickled into my subconscious through microaggressions, news stories, and personal experiences. Secondly, as a White Atheist living in Europe, I struggled to understand religiously-rooted...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/sahiyo-staff-spotlight-programs-assistant-meg-sinnott.html

  • Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Belong in the Movement to End FGC

    responses as I read words I would normally avoid: cutting, labia, orgasm, vagina, genitals, clitoris, consent. I read the stories of survivors, and I held space for their pain, grief, anguish, and their bravery. Over timeI realized that so much of their...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/survivors-of-childhood-sexual-abuse-belong-in-the-movement-to-end-fgc.html

  • FGC in the United States: How Americans can help end this practice 

    I found the opposite to be true. I was empowered and inspired by the women at Sahiyo who had the courage to share their stories and uplift others. I think it is understandable that people have reservations about this topic; it can be uncomfortable. Even...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/fgc-united-states-americans-help-end-practice.html

  • Topple the system- question the microaggressions

    since our childhood. It is not only a part of our religious scriptures but also has deviously made its way into the stories we tell to our children. Personally, I grew up on stories where women were always the damsel in distress and the prince somehow...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/topple-the-system-question-the-microaggressions.html

  • From Saving Safa to Seven: How authors use writing to shed light on FGC

    as I agreed that the practice of FGC ought to end, I’d never been asked, or asked myself, to sit down and engage with the stories and lessons of the actual activists on the front lines working to end it. As I made my way through Dirie’s critically...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/from-saving-safa-to-seven.html

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