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81. In the Name of Your Daughter: A film for change
(News & Blog)
... medical analyses and journal articles that characterized the girls’ bodies by their body parts. To watch the film and hear firsthand from filmmaker Portenier and activist Susan McLucas was eye-opening. ...
Created on 28 February 2021
82. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Aarefa
(News & Blog)
... is how a lot of my friends describe me!  What are your hobbies? Music and reading.  What is your profession or what career would you like to be in? I wear two main hats.  I’m a journalist, and also ...
Created on 08 December 2020
83. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Shabana
(News & Blog)
... an average day look like for you?  I wake up, journal, do a workout, shower, start work (from home) running my creative agency, wind down with family or a good book in the evening, play with my cat, journal, ...
Created on 06 December 2020
84. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Samina
(News & Blog)
... to say my very first thought as a child of what I wanted to be when I grew up was to be a journalist who would organise events, too! What is your favourite food? I am a foodie good with everything!  ...
Created on 05 December 2020
85. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Jumana
(News & Blog)
... What are some of your passions?  Journalism, scuba diving, creative writing, unconventional traveling What does an average day look like for you?  Exciting! Play with my kids, write, edit a newspaper, ...
Created on 29 November 2020
86. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Fatema
(News & Blog)
... my faith in Allah.   What are five words to describe you? Compassionate, Lazy, Genuine, Driven and Anxious  What are your hobbies? Writing in my journal and reading up new things until I get bored ...
Created on 28 November 2020
87. Voices Series: Why I keep sharing my personal khatna story, again and again
(News & Blog)
... my story of undergoing khatna, or female genital cutting (FGC), dozens of times in the past seven years. I have written about it in blogs, described it to journalists during interviews, shared it on camera ...
Created on 11 March 2020
88. U.S. Sahiyo Board Member Spotlight: A. Renee Bergstrom, EdD
(News & Blog)
... by several others, including photojournalist Meeri Matilda Koutaniemi of Finland who is writing a book about FGM/C survivors.  After going public, two other white Christian North American FGM/C survivors ...
Created on 17 November 2019
89. Cofounders
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... her at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Aarefa Johari is a journalist based in Mumbai, India. She has four years of experience as a reporter and feature writer with Hindustan Times, a national daily, and currently ...
Created on 02 July 2019
90. Learning new methods of data analysis to conduct research on female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... my data analysis completed, I’ve begun the work of writing the paper that will hopefully be submitted for publication in a research journal at the end of the semester. The results so far suggest unique ...
Created on 25 April 2019
91. My experience of healing by attending the 2019 Sahiyo Activist Retreat in the U.S.
(News & Blog)
... journalled my realizations. Later, in a pair-share exercise with the woman sitting next to me, I found myself relating to an aspect of her story, even though it was quite different from my own. It ...
Created on 18 April 2019
92. The experience of hosting my very own Thaal Pe Charcha
(News & Blog)
... world. The conversations bordered around what each one was doing in their lives, professionally and otherwise. We discussed issues such as soft-feminism, journalism, opinions on certain movies and the ...
Created on 16 April 2019
93. Sahiyo Staff Spotlight: Lara Kingstone
(News & Blog)
... Communications at IDC Herzliya, an Israeli University, while working as a journalist at The Culture Trip and producing and hosting a human rights radio program. She then worked at an educational center ...
Created on 17 March 2019
94. Journal
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Created on 19 August 2021
95. Violated hopes: My struggle to report on Female Genital Cutting in Pakistan
(Article tagged with: Journal)
By Hina Javed Country: Pakistan When sporting my journalistic hat, I tend to sniff out stories from unlikely sources, wherever they are hidden. I look out for news, dropping into places to see what ...
Created on 23 December 2017
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