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21. Sahiyo spotlight: Incoming U.S. Advisory Board Chair Zehra Patwa
(News & Blog)
... serves on several boards, including Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services (IRIS), and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Sahiyo US Advisory Board. After discovering well into adulthood, that khatna ...
Created on 24 April 2023
22. Moving Forward
(News & Blog)
By Nazneen Vasi The topic of Khatna, also known as female genital cutting (FGC), has always been interesting. Within my family,  there are those who are against it, and those who support it. It is ...
Created on 11 April 2023
23. Sahiyo spotlight: Incoming U.S. Advisory Board Vice Chair Sakina Sharp 
(News & Blog)
... to have laws that define FGC to include khatna. I think those are very important table stakes to set the standard in our community of what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable. I think it’s also important ...
Created on 29 March 2023
24. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Tahir Taherbhai
(News & Blog)
... Sahiyo was hosting its first-ever Auction, I knew I wanted to help in whatever way I could. I knew it would be hard for me to physically get involved because of my age andthe nature of work on Khatna would ...
Created on 27 February 2023
25. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Zehra Patwa
(News & Blog)
... a WhatsApp group of women around the world who were starting to talk about khatna or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the Bohra community. This mighty group of women included the founders of ...
Created on 25 February 2023
26. My thoughts on the Washington Senate Bill to end FGM/C
(News & Blog)
By FA When I was a teenager, my family discouraged me from speaking out against khatna, or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), for fear of repercussions from our community. I wanted to use my ...
Created on 13 February 2023
27. Dear Maasi addresses pain and pleasure
(News & Blog)
... about khatna (FGM/C) and how it impacts our bodies, minds, sexualities and relationships. We welcome you to submit your anonymous questions. Dear Maasi,  My question has to do with sex. Will it ...
Created on 30 November 2022
28. Dear Maasi: "Should I confront the person responsible for my khatna (FGM/C)?"
(News & Blog)
... about khatna (FGM/C) and how it impacts our bodies, minds, sexualities and relationships. We welcome you to submit your anonymous questions.   Dear Maasi,  Over the last year, I’ve been thinking ...
Created on 26 October 2022
29. Moving Connecticut ahead: Protecting girls from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 
(News & Blog)
... well into adulthood, that khatna or khafz (type 1 FGM/C) was practiced in her community and that she, too, had been subjected to it, she decided she could no longer keep silent. Although she has no recollection ...
Created on 21 September 2022
30. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board spotlight: Zahra Qaiyumi
(News & Blog)
... get involved in the fall of 2019 during what was a rough patch in my personal life for a few reasons, khatna, or FGM/C, being one of them.  Why did you choose to join the Advisory Board and what do you ...
Created on 21 April 2022
31. Dear Maasi: Will my daughter ever forgive me?
(News & Blog)
... about khatna (FGM/C) and how it impacts our bodies, minds, sexualities and relationships. We welcome you to submit your anonymous questions. Dear Maasi, My daughter recently read an article about khatna ...
Created on 06 April 2022
32. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: My experience with different Bhaiyos 
(News & Blog)
... and views about community practices and were able to have open conversations on many topics. I decided to ask him if he knew about the practice of Khatna. Z had grown up and was still living in a very ...
Created on 22 March 2022
33. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: Turning my father and law colleagues into Bhaiyos
(News & Blog)
... you and me are aware of. It may be domestic violence, dowry death, sexual harassment in workplaces, etc., but one form of gender-based violence, not known publicly until recently is the practice of khatna, ...
Created on 14 March 2022
34. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: Turning neighbors, friends, and community members into Bhaiyos
(News & Blog)
... in today's age. I feel all my brothers from my community are silent in spite of knowing everything in their minds about female Khatna and pretend to be strangers to people of other religions! I am trying ...
Created on 08 March 2022
35. Dear Maasi: Is there something wrong with me because I like this kind of sex?
(News & Blog)
... about khatna (FGM/C) and how it impacts our bodies, minds, sexualities and relationships. We welcome you to submit your anonymous questions.   Dear Maasi, When I was younger and underwent khatna, ...
Created on 05 January 2022
36. Introducing: Scenarios by Sahiyo
(News & Blog)
... and Areefa, a daughter and mother who disagree about the practice of khatna (the word for FGC in the Bohra community), who must then talk about their respective trauma and guilt together to reach a place ...
Created on 24 November 2021
37. Sahiyo partners with FAWCO to lead an educational webinar on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States
(News & Blog)
... ‘khatna’ and the Dawoodi Bohras, a community that partakes in the  harmful practice of FGM/C. Through her own journey of speaking out as a survivor, she recognised the need for an organised forum within ...
Created on 01 November 2021
38. Dear Maasi: "I’m a transgender man who is also a survivor of female genital cutting" ...
(News & Blog)
... about khatna (female genital mutilation/cutting or FGM/C) and how it impacts our bodies, minds, sexualities and relationships. We welcome you to submit your anonymous questions.   Dear Maasi,  I am ...
Created on 13 October 2021
39. End FGM - Save our daughters
(News & Blog)
By: Arwa  Country of Residence: India Today, I'm referring the most underrated topic 'khatna' or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM/C). I call it underrated because it doesn't seem like educated persons in ...
Created on 30 September 2021
40. FGC in India
(News & Blog)
... modernity within tradition in the debates on female khatna / female genital cutting in India  2022 The Prevalance of Female Genital Mutilation in India 2018 “Heartwrenching’ study ...
Created on 26 September 2021