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1. About - Our Story
Created on 30 November -0001
2. Supporting Survivors in the LGBTQIA+ Community: How Sahiyo Helped Afiqa Attend the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week
(News & Blog)
... cut was a human rights violation at a feminist-led comprehensive sexuality education workshop. I asked my mother, who readily confirmed that under her instructions, my older sister had brought me to a ...
Created on 06 February 2025
3. Sahiyo research uplifts how intersectionality impacts the movement to end FGM/C this February 6th
(News & Blog)
... other social justice movements, strengthens our overall work to end FGM/C.   Speakers:  Aarefa Johari is a journalist and feminist activist based in Mumbai, India. She has been advocating for an end ...
Created on 06 February 2025
4. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... and discourses around feminist agency reasoning was eye-opening.  So during my second pregnancy, I wasn’t surprised when some educated women around me casually asked whether I would try for a boy next ...
Created on 24 December 2024
5. On My Own Terms
(News & Blog)
... other forms of gender-based violence and oppression because, in many ways, they are all interconnected.  Musu Bakoto Sawo is a feminist human rights lawyer with over 18 years of experience in children’s ...
Created on 05 November 2024
6. Donor Spotlight: Brad Mazon
(News & Blog)
... male engagement and voices within the movement to end FGM/C? There's no sex that's greater than the other. I believe that I am an anti-patriarchy and feminist man. At the end of the day, as I have gotten ...
Created on 24 September 2024
7. Sahiyo staff spotlight: Editorial Coordinator Sheena Vasani
(News & Blog)
... five billion years later, I saw a job listing for the position. It was perfect timing, because I’d just been thinking how much I wanted to involve myself more with feminist initiatives again, and so of ...
Created on 20 May 2024
8. Staff Spotlight Community Engagement Coordinator: Samman Masud
(News & Blog)
... research explored the intersection of human rights advocacy and social media platforms in light of the #Metoo movement and the possibilities of transnational feminist solidarity networks in the digital ...
Created on 13 February 2024
9. NEW Voices to End FGM/C Podcast!
(News & Blog)
... powerful short videos during our workshops, so much of their narratives remained unexplored. If you’ve always wanted to know more about FGM/C, or if you’re wondering why, as a feminist or social justice ...
Created on 07 December 2023
10. My time at the 2023 Peer-to-Peer National ARP Convening
(News & Blog)
... of work to be done in the gender-based violence space, the feminist solidarity I saw at the convention gave me immense hope about what this growing network can achieve: a future free from violence for ...
Created on 05 December 2023
11. PRESS RELEASE: Sahiyo publishes Examining the Current State of Critical Intersections: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Social Oppressions report
(News & Blog)
... from the FGM/C sphere. Feminism: there are many complexities at the intersection of FGM/C and feminism.  Both the resister and accommodator of FGM/C may argue that their actions are aligned with Feminist ...
Created on 03 October 2023
12. Critical Intersections
(Programs)
... begin with women’s sexual liberation, which played a prominent part in Western second-wave feminist agenda, African feminists have approached FGC by strengthening women’s social, economic, and political ...
Created on 28 August 2023
13. Sahiyo welcomes Kaneez Madraswalla as new U.S. Advisory Board Member
(News & Blog)
... violence, refugee assistance, and grassroots political awareness. Though she was not exposed to female genital cutting (FGC) as a child, Kaneez is an aspiring feminist and Bohra woman raised by a strong ...
Created on 14 August 2023
14. 2023 Kigali Declaration launched at the Women Deliver Pre-Conference
(News & Blog)
... and actions, with women-led organizations and the feminist movement at the center, for women and girls’ bodily autonomy and sexual and reproductive health and rights. It also includes a call for a global ...
Created on 20 July 2023
15. Volunteer spotlight: Editorial Intern Megan Seaver
(News & Blog)
... involvement with Sahiyo impacted your life? It’s encouraged me to be more conscious of my privilege from a feminist perspective, and it’s also caused me to realize that the work I most enjoy doing is ...
Created on 20 July 2023
16. Announcing the Women Deliver 2023 Conference
(News & Blog)
... intersectional feminist principles, will address a wide range of issues impacting girls and women– including (but not limited to) climate change, gender- based violence (GBV) and unpaid care work. The ...
Created on 03 July 2023
17. Full circle: A bridge from the political to the personal
(News & Blog)
... story of a woman with endometriosis was shared within the context of FGM/C on the first day of the Voices workshop. It helped me begin my journey to acknowledge my own pain and see how it informs my feminist ...
Created on 12 April 2023
18. There’s an App For That? Technological Innovation and Change Towards Ending Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting
(News & Blog)
... She addressed and advocated for the urgent need for feminist technological interventions and the limitations and challenges of developing an innovation around the taboo subject of FGM/C. Goswami believes ...
Created on 15 March 2023
19. Dear Maasi addresses pain and pleasure
(News & Blog)
... our virginity”, a concept that has been challenged by feminists as a damaging social construct.   Anonymous, it’s worth thinking about what you mean by “the first time”. Is it masturbation? Penetration ...
Created on 30 November 2022
20. Sahiyo volunteer spotlight: Editorial intern Kristin Grady
(News & Blog)
Kristin received her Certification of Editing through the University of Washington. As an enthusiastic grammarian and dedicated feminist, she is passionate about elevating women’s voices through storytelling ...
Created on 05 January 2022