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1. Survivor and Community Engagement Toolkit
(Uncategorised)
... ~ Katharine Conroy, Sauti Yetu Voices From The Field:   “We want to also effect a change in behavior. So it's why we try to engage the community. Because if they are not aware of ...
Created on 15 March 2025
2. Positive Masculinity; A Critical Tool in the Movement to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... Does it start at home, as one speaker advocated for, at school, or in the media? We are inundated with examples of toxic masculinity, even to the point of admiring the most toxic behaviors in our celebrities, ...
Created on 20 February 2025
3. The Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C Interview Series: Caitlin LeMay
(News & Blog)
... behavior.” These racial stereotypes only serve to perpetuate problems in the U.S. “The root of the US not reconciling with ... is completely rooted in racism and anti-blackness. Not being able ...
Created on 20 August 2024
4. Sahiyo U.S. Releases New Impact Report: Policy Outreach, Education, and Advocacy Program
(News & Blog)
... the practice by acting as a mechanism to shape the behavior of communities or individuals. Policies can be educational tools, deterrents, and influencers for psychosocial change. In guiding the creation ...
Created on 20 August 2024
5. I Didn’t Dare Ask
(News & Blog)
... I want people to know that FGM/C can damage an individual’s self-worth, which can become the root cause of other behavioral or mental health issues. Is there anything in your digital story that you would ...
Created on 11 January 2024
6. Sexual pleasure after female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... as well, and found that it can include: Mindfulness which involves pausing and reflecting during sexual activity to study your body’s behavior which can be key to the healing process. Mindfulness may ...
Created on 11 August 2023
7. Reflecting on Investing in Girls and Women: Unleashing the Power of Philanthropy to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... quick fixes when deciding what programs to invest in, and hence fail to invest in the long-term, multi-year solutions that are really needed to create behavior change to end FGC. Donors may also find it ...
Created on 17 May 2023
8. Policy Outreach, Education, and Advocacy
(Programs)
... or individual’s behavior. As FGC is often considered a social norm in practicing communities, laws against FGC may prevent the practice. Policies can thus serve as educational tools, deterrents, influencers ...
Created on 29 April 2023
9. Proposed legislation in Idaho and Texas discriminates against Transgender Youth and removes protections for children at risk of undergoing FGC
(News & Blog)
... would alter existing policy against FGC to ban gender-affirming care for minors. Gender-affirming care includes social, psychological, behavioral, and medical practices which affirm the gender identity ...
Created on 01 March 2023
10. Reflecting on an Israeli Minister’s decision to not grant asylum for a woman fleeing female genital mutilation/cutting
(News & Blog)
... with and supporting those who face oppression in all of its iterations and holding members of your community accountable for problematic and dangerous behavior. When other Jews fail to use their privileges ...
Created on 11 January 2023
11. Reflecting on ‘Moving Connecticut Ahead: Protecting Girls from FGM/C’, a webinar
(News & Blog)
... the universal truth that every society is influenced by norms that guide behavior and can help to solidify what conduct is acceptable or unacceptable within the group. Individuals may be socially sanctioned ...
Created on 09 November 2022
12. Connecticut Trauma and Gender Learning Collaborative Training Part 2
(News & Blog)
... gender-responsive behavioral health care in Connecticut by providing training, consultation, and information to behavioral health agencies across the state. During this presentation, Sahiyo continued to ...
Created on 08 February 2022
13. Dear Maasi: Is there something wrong with me because I like this kind of sex?
(News & Blog)
... adult sexual behavior, and many participants negotiate communication norms before, during, and after for ongoing consent, and to ensure that partners are still having a good time. For readers curious to ...
Created on 05 January 2022
14. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board spotlight: Jo Keogh
(News & Blog)
Jo Keogh has been utilizing somatic approaches to treat female trauma survivors since 2014. She is currently completing her internship in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Anna Haven Behavioral Health ...
Created on 15 October 2021
15. Mutilation or enhancement: A researcher’s argument for respectful terminology on genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... (FGM). An instance of such pushback came from a respected colleague in response to a paper of mine in Archives of Sexual Behavior, in which I argue against the use of ‘mutilation’ in certain contexts, ...
Created on 14 September 2021
16. Practitioner and advocate training: Best practices for working with survivors of gender-based violence
(News & Blog)
... of gender-based violence, such as domestic violence, FGC is a learned behavior of childhood, and is often surrounded by a culture of silence and shame, and is a form of generational violence. However, ...
Created on 19 July 2021
17. Using purity as a means to control women through Christianity and female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... acts or behavior.  “Boys will be boys,” was the typical attitude when a young man admitted to sexual behavior before marriage. However, if a girl was promiscuous, within the church and my community, ...
Created on 15 June 2021
18. Upcoming Webinar: Addressing Female Genital Cutting in the Clinic
(News & Blog)
... Afterward, she pursued a Master’s degree in Physiology at Georgetown University. She then moved to the Bay Area and participated in neurobehavioral research while working with adolescents diagnosed with ...
Created on 01 December 2020
19. Voices Series: Naima Dido
(News & Blog)
... and me include making my own choices, taking my own chances, and embracing the resulting changes. And still, my mother and our female ancestors—with all of their obedience to culturally expected behavior—inspire ...
Created on 13 April 2020
20. Sahiyo Volunteer Spotlight: Zahra Qaiyumi
(News & Blog)
... She then moved to the Bay Area and participated in neurobehavioral research while working with adolescents diagnosed with ADHD at the University of California San Francisco’s Neuroscape Center. Currently, ...
Created on 12 April 2020