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1. About - Our Story
Created on 30 November -0001
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Created on 30 November -0001
3. Reflecting on the Critical Intersections Webinar
(News & Blog)
... report: race/racism, LGBTQIA+ issues, gender inequities, and religious discrimination.  Another partner researcher Jessica Puri and Project Advisors Aarefa Johari and Saza Faradilla spoke about their ...
Created on 21 March 2025
4. Supporting Survivors in the LGBTQIA+ Community: How Sahiyo Helped Afiqa Attend the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week
(News & Blog)
... Advocacy Travel Scholarship in 2024, which supported my participation in the program.  The leadership program was aimed at building the capacities of LGBTQIA+ activists in promoting the human rights ...
Created on 06 February 2025
5. Sahiyo research uplifts how intersectionality impacts the movement to end FGM/C this February 6th
(News & Blog)
...  The report addresses the following topics within these two themes:  Intersections between FGM/C and Race, LGBTQIA+, Religion, and Gender.  Challenges and Opportunities to Cross Collaboration. From ...
Created on 06 February 2025
6. Sahiyo's response to recent Executive Orders by the Trump Administratio
(News & Blog)
... also concerned. It’s disturbing watching the Trump administration blatantly conflate FGC and gender-affirming care. As we explained in a recent blog, this not only endangers trans and LGBTQ+ youth but ...
Created on 31 January 2025
7. Sahiyo condemns recent executive order conflating female genital mutilation/cutting with gender-affirming care
(News & Blog)
... realities. In fact, Sahiyo studied the intersection between FGM/C and LGBTQIA+ issues in our Critical Intersections Research Project. From our work with survivors, our research, and our experiences, ...
Created on 31 January 2025
8. Helping our Sahiyo community process the 2024 election
(News & Blog)
... National Hotline (RAIN): 800-656-4673 Members of the LGBTQ community can call 1-866-488-7386 or visit www.thetrevorproject.org  The South Asian Network provides a variety of health and wellbeing resources ...
Created on 07 November 2024
9. Interview with Joanne Golden of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... out to GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, to rephrase the bill on FGC so that it didn't conflate gender-affirming surgery with FGC, and also make the former illegal. Joanne says lawyers provide the ...
Created on 04 September 2024
10. Join the FGM/C Prevention and Response in Washington State Advisory Committee
(News & Blog)
... practicing communities and other allies in this work, including related social justice fields such as reproductive health, child protection professionals, LGBTQI+ agencies. We also acknowledge the need ...
Created on 06 May 2024
11. PRESS RELEASE: Sahiyo publishes Examining the Current State of Critical Intersections: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Social Oppressions report
(News & Blog)
... to cisgender and heteronormative ideas of what a woman is. LGBTQ+ survivors are underrepresented in statistics and the FGM/C activist community, and face an intersection of barriers that causes erasure ...
Created on 03 October 2023
12. Critical Intersections
(Programs)
... movement and other related social justice movements. The report focused on prominent intersections discussed in the former two reports: Race LGBTQIA+ Religion Gender Challenges to and opportunities ...
Created on 28 August 2023
13. Proposed legislation in Idaho and Texas discriminates against Transgender Youth and removes protections for children at risk of undergoing FGC
(News & Blog)
... undergo FGC cannot be freely given due to societal pressure. To learn more about the differences between gender-affirming treatments and FGC, read here. According to Equality Texas, 76 anti-LGBTQ+ ...
Created on 01 March 2023
14. Volunteer spotlight: Umme Kulsoom Arif
(News & Blog)
... Retreat, and to be able to share my perspective as someone part of the LGBTQ+ community, especially as someone who is nonbinary. I’ve focused heavily on the healing side of activism and encouraging survivors ...
Created on 16 December 2022
15. PRESS RELEASE: Sahiyo & Asian Women’s Shelter Collaborate to Inform Crisis Line for Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(News & Blog)
... address the urgent and unmet needs of survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking, especially those who are limited English proficient immigrant or refugee women, children, LGBTQ+/GNB people, ...
Created on 24 August 2022
16. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
By Trisha Kini On June 23rd, Sahiyo hosted their webinar A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor in honor of LGBTQ+ pride month. The event was moderated by Sahiyo U.S. ...
Created on 01 August 2022
17. Activists Retreat Reflection: Umme's experienc
(News & Blog)
... Was I less valid within the LGBTQIA+ community because of the trauma I had endured that shaped the way I viewed my gender and sexuality? Was I less valid within the Sahiyo community because I was only ...
Created on 29 July 2022
18. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
...  As growing conversations around the world have sought to address the unique needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) communities, the question remains as to how to meet the needs ...
Created on 25 May 2022
19. Using purity as a means to control women through Christianity and female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... Christians have softened their voices, particularly in regard to the role of women and the LGBTQ community. This may be attributed to the growing resistance from millennials and younger generations against ...
Created on 15 June 2021
20. The End FGM European Network hosts webinar: “Addressing female genital mutilation while leaving no one behind”
(News & Blog)
... in February. The speakers of the event included Helena Dalli, EU Commissioner for Equality; Aïda Yancy, an LGBTQ+ feminist, anti-racist activist currently working at RainbowHouse Brussels and an expert ...
Created on 29 March 2021