Sahiyo staff spotlight: Editorial coordinator Rachel Wine

lies at the intersection of activism and storytelling, and she loves supporting Sahiyo’s work of elevating survivors’ voices for the empowerment of women everywhere. When and how did you first get involved with Sahiyo? I first started working with...

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

can become better at meeting the needs of LGBTQ+ survivors. 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 margin of conversations on FGC. This webinar will also...

Willing To Learn

workshop was an opportunity that came by and seemed interesting. After the first meeting and learning more about the Voices To End FGM/C program, I was even more intrigued. I wanted to be able to create a story that people would feel deeply and find...

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

respectful, and welcoming to survivors of all gender identities. The event began with two powerful videos from our 2022 Voices to End FGM/C cohort, which were recently released to the public. Dena Igusti’s On being a Nonbinary Survivor of FGM/C...

Sahiyo India holds guest lecture for students in Mumbai

which had over 50 student attendees. The session began with the screening of two short films from Sahiyo and StoryCentre's Voices to End FGM/C series: Why by Fakhera, and A Chorus of Voices by Aarefa. The lecture then helped students understand what FGC...

Sahiyo and StoryCenter to host parallel session at the 65th Commission on the Status of Women meetings

at the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women meetings. At this event, we will introduce our collaborative Voices to End FGM/C project, which centers on storytelling by survivors and those affected by female genital mutilation/cutting...

Bhaiyo engages male allies to empower communities to end female genital cutting during June campaign

we hope to show other men who have not yet become involved in Sahiyo’s work that there is a spot for them and that their voices are crucial in ending FGC. Additionally, we hope to elevate the voices of our amazing male allies who are already engaged in...

Celebrating October 11th - International Day of the Girl Child

Los Angeles. Speakers included: Athia Carrim, Dr. Nina Smart, Mariya Taher, Dr. Brenda Kaye Ingram, Muluemebet Alemayehu. Voices to End FGM/C - A discussion-based event to uplift storytellers from the Voices to End FGM/C digital storytelling project and...

Why sex educators need to know about female genital cutting (FGC)

and eagerly accepted. I covered what FGC is and why it is performed, and interlaced this with survivor testimonies from the Voices to End FGM/C project, a digital storytelling workshop that Sahiyo co-hosts. I also made sure to address any myths that...

FGM/C from an artist’s perspective: Art for cultural change

Sahiyo releases July 2021-June 2022 Annual Report

features comic strips based on real-life stories by activists, advocates, and allies working to end FGC. We hosted our 6th Voices to End FGM/C workshop with 9 participants, bringing the total number of videos created by the program to 55 participants...

Activists Retreat Reflection: Umme's experience

was what being safe truly felt like. I sat, listened, and heard my thoughts, fears, and emotions echoed back to me in the voices of those who — like me — had either gone through or knew someone who had endured an injustice the likes of which I still...

Empowering Muslim Women through Storytelling: A Roundtable Discussion

Description: With the rise of Islamophobia in mainstream media, the need to produce alternative narratives that amplify the voices of Muslim women telling their own stories has never been greater. In the last few years, storytelling collectives like the...

Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries

to the cultural community, makes honest attempts to put herself into the shoes of the believers, and thus, brings out voices both pro and against the practice. In fact, the naming of the documentary is indicative given that it does not merely portray...

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

matters to them. Throughout the month, short videos made by our Sahiyo community will be shared via social media. These voices belong to our volunteers, staff, advisory board and storytellers, each of whom has a different history and experience or...

Global Call to Action From “Uniting forces to make female genital mutilation/cutting a practice of the past: A gathering for global civil society actors”

organisations, champions, survivors and other grassroots representatives came together at Women Deliver 2019 to unite voices around a global Call to Action to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). The pre-conference was an unprecedented...

Support Sahiyo’s Work this Giving Tuesday

and dependent on your financial contributions. Donate now! Thanks to your support, this year we were able to conduct two Voices to End FGM/C workshops in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. At these workshops, 20 individuals affected by FGM/C were able...

The Climate Crisis & Human Rights

on climate justice and human rights. A few days prior to the presentation, the organizers asked if they could use my Sahiyo Voices Video from 2021 to introduce me as a speaker. Elated, I immediately said yes. On the day of the presentation, my colleague...

My story doesn’t end here

and am always looking for opportunities to be a part of the larger conversation. I’m so grateful for Sahiyo, and for the Voices to End FGM/C project for providing me with the platform to bring this story out of the darkness. Nearly two decades later, I...

Moving Forward

there is no science or logic to legitimize this practice– just blind faith in the leaders of the community. I joined the Voices to End FGM/C workshop to share my journey with FGC. My parents did not participate in this custom, and thus I was spared from...