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21. The Good Mother
(News & Blog)
... the conflict was, I knew myself to be a good person but I didn’t want to be a good girl. And every now and then my mother and I would fight for that contested parable-like existence – the good girl. She, ...
Created on 19 December 2015
22. Want to help us end female genital cutting? Vote for Sahiyo in the Shared Nation Contest!
(News & Blog)
... projects participating in the August 2018 contest to be voted on to receive the digital community’s combined funds. Each month, general voting takes place for the first three weeks of the month, and in ...
Created on 01 August 2018
23. Want to help end Female Genital Cutting? Vote for Sahiyo in the Shared Nation Contest
(News & Blog)
... to our world’s biggest problems. This month, nominated by Jonathan Payne, Sahiyo will be one of the projects participating in the May 2018 contest to be voted on to receive the digital community’s combined ...
Created on 01 May 2018
24. Full circle: A bridge from the political to the personal
(News & Blog)
... (FGM) in the US, India and parts of Africa. In 2018, Lakshmi co-authored "The Clitoral Hood A Contested Site: Khafd or FGM/C in India," a field-research study on FGM/C in India. Lakshmi currently works ...
Created on 12 April 2023
25. FGC in India
(News & Blog)
... shows FGM prevalent among India’s Bohra sect  Center Urges SC to Issue Directions to Curb Female Genital Mutilation in India The Clitoral Hood – A Contested Site: khafd of female genital mutilation/cutting ...
Created on 26 September 2021
26. Female genital cutting: A poem
(News & Blog)
... girl, Subjected to female genital cutting. As a mere child of seven, I did not contest, I wasn’t even aware, That all my dignity as well as my rights, Were stripped from me bare. “It is done ...
Created on 18 June 2021
27. Sahiyo Awards and Distinctions
(News & Blog)
... recognized a Voices to End FGM/C video as "Honorable Mention" in the 2020 Peace Motion Graphics Contest. 2019 Sahiyo and StoryCenter awarded recipient of the ViiV Healthcare #EndFGM Positive ...
Created on 02 March 2021
28. Dear Maasi: Where do I begin with psychotherapy after undergoing khatna?
(News & Blog)
... the Dawoodi Bohra Community The Clitoral Hood A Contested Site Khafd or Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in India  Resolving the trauma of khatna can help us live happier, more fulfilling ...
Created on 14 January 2021
29. Research Studies on FGC
(Resources)
... General Report on FGM 2020 2018 Study finds ‘huge’ fall in FGM rates among African girls The Clitoral Hood – A Contested Site: khafd of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in India  ...
Created on 04 December 2020
30. Sahiyo participated in key virtual events with global organizations in October
(News & Blog)
... & Enduring Patriarchal Traditions The first webinar in a series for the Patriarchal Inscriptions: Female bodies contested, invaded defended and owned, this October 15th webinar focused on the persistence ...
Created on 18 November 2020
31. Sahiyo staff spoke in a symposia entitled Mothers and daughters: continuity, love, fear and belonging
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo Communications Coordinator Lara Kingstone and co-founder Mariya Taher were honored to speak on behalf of Sahiyo in a symposia entitled, Patriarchal Inscriptions: Female Bodies Contested, Invaded, ...
Created on 18 November 2020
32. Research study explores female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... qualitative survey and feminist focus group discussions, both anchored online, to explore the links between the need for privacy and feminist-led advocacy in the existing public conversations and contestations ...
Created on 29 September 2020
33. Tracing the Origins of Female Genital Cutting: How It All started
(News & Blog)
... also sought its validation through Islamic scriptures. Doraine Lambelet Coleman says that one of the hadiths in Islam is thought to permit a limited form of cutting, though the hadith is also contested ...
Created on 21 July 2018
34. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 4: Psycho-sexual functioning
(News & Blog)
... Hood – A Contested Site’)     There are 3 primary psycho-sexual complications commonly associated with FGC: painful intercourse (may be due to narrowing of vaginal canal; or excessive scarring, ...
Created on 05 July 2018
35. 'Call it by the Name': A researcher’s dilemma on the FGM-FGC terminology debat
(News & Blog)
... surgeries’ is contested as well, as it appears to validate medicalisation of FGM or in other words implies that FGM is a medical surgery like other standard surgeries. The term FGM received significant ...
Created on 27 June 2018
36. Building the data on Female Genital Cutting in the Bohra Community
(News & Blog)
... continued. A year later, this February 2018 saw the release of a second large-scale research study entitled “The Clitoral Hood – A Contested Site”, conducted by Lakshmi Anantnarayan, Shabana Diler and ...
Created on 19 February 2018
37. A tale of deception: My conversation with an FGC survivor in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
... due to which I want to remain anonymous,” she said. “I understand,” I replied. “I hope your story stirs a conversation and becomes a movement in this country. We need to put an end to this contested ...
Created on 16 February 2018
38. Violated hopes: My struggle to report on Female Genital Cutting in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
... acknowledge the existence of an otherwise contested practice in my country. Every time I think about taking a small step in a positive direction, I am reminded of the faces of responsible individuals shut ...
Created on 23 December 2017
39. Research Studies on FGC
(News & Blog)
... continent   The Clitoral Hood – A Contested Site: khafd of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in India   Perception and barriers to reporting female genital mutilation    ...
Created on 07 July 2017
40. Our History
(Uncategorised)
  Sahiyo began in early 2015 as a conversation between five women who felt strongly about the ritual of female genital cutting (khatna) in the Bohra community. The group includes a social worker, a researcher, ...
Created on 15 June 2016