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61. Dear Maasi: "Should I tell my new partner about my experience with khatna?
(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’m forty ...
Created on 13 September 2020
62. To my surprise, my friend defended khatna
(News & Blog)
... practice was known as khatna.  My heart sank as I realized that a very close friend by the virtue of being from the community must have undergone FGM/C. As a concerned friend, but with pre-conceived ...
Created on 20 August 2020
63. Rejection of khatna must be a step in the liberation of Bohra women
(News & Blog)
By Zarina Patel Khatna, or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) within the Dawoodi Bohra community, is not a distinct or unique ritual. It has a context and it is important that Bohra women (and ...
Created on 13 August 2020
64. Part II–Medicalising khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... drivers of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), law can play an additional critical role in disincentivizing khatna. The arrests in the U.S. and Australia due to the medicalisation of FGM/C, led ...
Created on 23 June 2020
65. 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
66. Khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... practice khatna, or female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) within India, as well as in other parts of the world. I learned about this over dinner with my family when I was 17. A woman who went by the ...
Created on 25 February 2020
67. How the Sahiyo Activist Retreat helped me gain perspective from other khatna survivors
(News & Blog)
... perspective from other women who had been victims of khatna as well. For the first time in my life, I openly discussed what happened to me and my own feelings about khatna. The memory of that day is still ...
Created on 30 July 2019
68. Why I care about khatna: Reflections from the 2019 Sahiyo Activist Retreat
(News & Blog)
By Alisha Bhagat I first found out about female genital cutting, or khatna, in my community in my twenties; my mother told me it had been done to her. At the time I was shocked. I thought this was something ...
Created on 06 June 2019
69. My experience at the Sahiyo U.S. Activist Retreat made me reflect on my khatna
(News & Blog)
By Anonymous  Country of Residence: United States  Age: 45 years old I often wondered what the two women closest to me thought about khatna. I wondered because I never really talked with my sister ...
Created on 06 April 2019
70. The Legal Side of Khatna or Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... research on the individual experience of khatna and its effects. Read her other articles in this series: Khatna Research in Mumbai. Female Genital Cutting or khatna or khafz, as it is also called in ...
Created on 04 December 2018
71. Khatna Isn’t Black Or White, Just Like My Story
(News & Blog)
... afraid and seek advice, support, and shared empathy from others. I have not undergone khatna, and I was the only one in the group who had not. My digital story touches on how I sometimes feel like an outcast ...
Created on 28 August 2018
72. On The Supreme Court Hearings and The Pro-Khatna FAQs Circulated by Bohras
(News & Blog)
By Shabana Feroze Country: Bahrain The Supreme Court of India is very close to deciding a ban on Female Genital Cutting (FGC) or khatna, and I couldn’t be happier. As a survivor of FGC myself (I live ...
Created on 23 August 2018
73. Why men too must speak out against Khatna
(News & Blog)
... a research on the individual experience of Khatna and its effects. Read her other articles in this series – Khatna Research in Mumbai. Khatna, by virtue of being related to female anatomy, is often ...
Created on 27 July 2018
74. Khatna and the law, Part 1: Legislative Framework on Female Genital Cutting in Egypt
(News & Blog)
By Bhavya Singh Since the recognition of the presence of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, efforts have been made to eliminate it in these areas. At the international ...
Created on 13 July 2018
75. Feeling drained after talking about Khatna? Here are some resources that can help
(News & Blog)
... a research on the individual experience of Khatna and its effects. Read her other articles in this series – Khatna Research in Mumbai. As human beings we are trained to react immediately, lessen the ...
Created on 15 June 2018
76. Sahiyo and Khatna survivors get attacked online through ‘organized trolling’
(News & Blog)
... a safe space where opinions on the practice could be heard and tolerated, not trolled and shunned. By attacking online and publicly shaming, the pro-khatna supporters have displayed their intolerance against ...
Created on 25 May 2018
77. A conversation with change makers: women who chose to speak up about Khatna
(News & Blog)
... a research on the individual experience of Khatna and its effects. To read Priya’s first blog in this series, visit ‘How I found out Khatna exists and why I choose to speak out’. The first time I heard ...
Created on 19 May 2018
78. How I found out Khatna exists and why I choose to speak out
(News & Blog)
... it is integral that while holding a discourse on Khatna, the emotions be incorporated within the facts. While presenting FGC as a topic in my school and college years, I often noticed the discomfort ...
Created on 07 May 2018
79. My fight with a male cousin who thinks Khatna is good
(News & Blog)
By: Shabana Feroze Every year, Feb 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation by the United Nations. Being a survivor of FGC myself, I’m an active volunteer with Sahiyo, ...
Created on 17 February 2018
80. Here I am, sharing my story: Watch a Dawoodi Bohra woman narrate her Khatna experience
(News & Blog)
In October 2017, at Sahiyo’s third Thaal Pe Charcha event, a young Indian Bohra woman, Saleha Paatwala, shared her experience of being subjected to “khafz” — also known as khatna or Female Genital Cutting ...
Created on 06 February 2018