Full circle: A bridge from the political to the personal

BBy Lakshmi Anantnarayan I recently attended Sahiyo and Story Center’s Voices to End FGM/C Digital Storytelling workshop to share my experience as an anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) advocate. I certainly did not expect the process to be so...

It's a Marathon, Not a Race

to participate in the digital storytelling workshop presented itself, I challenged myself to be part of the amplified voices. Voices that not only narrate similar stories about FGM/C but also give a human face to FGM/C. In our digital world, people are...

Sahiyo's Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Arefa Cassoobhoy

on Wednesday, March 6th and close on Sunday, March 10th. During this five-day fundraising event, we'll celebrate women's voices with comedy, video spotlights, stories, and entertainment. We’re incredibly grateful to all of our generous sponsors and...

Our Fight to End FGM in The Gambia: Who is Listening?

effective – to actually be heard – we need all of you to help tell our parents, “Enough is enough.” Our campaign has given voices to many young girls who continue to unapologetically lead movements to help change social norms. But today, we also need to...

Turning Grief into Purpose

Gugu Makhari learned about the Voices to End FGM/C digital storytelling project through a friend and through personal research online. She wanted to share a story about how both female genital cutting (FGC) and male circumcision are normalized in her...

2022 Voices to End FGM/C Workshop

Why the khatna conversation needs men's voices too

(First published on June 7, 2016) by Ammar Karimjee Age: 24 Country: Pakistan I found out when I was 19. I’d just heard about the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in an Anthropology class, and had dismissed it as something that simply...

Voices to End FGM/C Oct-Dec 2022 Cohort Video Screening

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Voices to End FGM/C Healing Circle

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More News on FGC

Sahiyo in the News Press Release: Voices to End FGMC FGC in Dawoodi Bohra Community FGC in Asia: FGC in Asia and the Middle East Map Following our report, Facebook removes ‘Islamic Female Circumcision’ page promoting FGM Report on Female Genital...

A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor

question remains as to how to meet the needs of LGBTQ+ survivors of FGC. The goal of this panel is to center and uplift the voices of LGBTQ+ FGC survivors whose identities and needs are too often pushed to the side of the conversation of FGC. This...

What can Bohras learn from a new report on the global status of female genital cutting?

To those who say that Sahiyo is not their voice...

practice. To those who say that Sahiyo is not their voice, I would like to clarify what Sahiyo is. Sahiyo is a cacophony of voices, a roar from a collective of activists whose voices unite. We are individuals who speak for ourselves and on behalf of...

Furore about Female Genital Cutting in Kerala: Impact of Sahiyo’s investigation

some level of acceptance and support for FGC amongst a considerable number of followers. Not surprisingly, almost all the voices defending FGC on Malayalam social media are those of men. Women’s voices are nowhere to be heard.

StoryCenter-A digital storytelling workshop for Bohra women in the United States

StoryCenter led a digital storytelling workshop in collaboration with the Women’s Foundation of California to highlight the voices of women who participated in the Women’s Policy Institute. As an alumni of this program, I was invited to attend and share...

Sahiyo staff spoke in a symposia entitled Mothers and daughters: continuity, love, fear and belonging

of becoming invested in, or complicit with, systemic injustice?” Taher and Kingstone discussed and presented Sahiyo’s Voices to End FGM/C: Using Storytelling to Shift Social Norms & Enhance Prevention as part of the panel on Mothers and daughters:...

Sahiyo Volunteer Spotlight: Isabel Panno Shepard

months after I graduated from Duke University last spring. When I came across the job listing and read about programs like Voices to End FGM/C, I wanted to be a part of Sahiyo’s mission to end FGC through survivor-centered advocacy and collective...

Webinar: Female genital cutting is an under-recognized form of gender-based violence in the U.S.

also answered the audience’s questions about their work and experience. Like many Sahiyo events, we also utilized the Voices to End FGM/C films throughout the presentation to help contextualize what the audience was learning and help them understand the...

UnChained At Last: The United States’ Child Marriage Problem webinar reflection

Girls You Have Destroyed, filmed by survivors of child marriage. By highlighting the stories of survivors (not unlike the Voices to End FGM/C videos by Sahiyo) they were able to show the real impact of this issue and highlight its deeply personal...

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

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 disrupting common...