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61. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... who are taken by their mothers or aunts under false pretenses, and the dilapidated building you spoke about is an element of a story we hear girls who have gone to Mumbai and had it done often talk about. ...
Created on 25 June 2020
62. Part II–Medicalising khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... has led to people taking increasingly different positions, and making more conscious decisions about continuing the practice. While mothers and women of the family used to be primary decision-makers of ...
Created on 23 June 2020
63. Voices Series: We should all speak up against female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... a source of trauma that affects our daughters and sisters and mothers, and this is enough for men to stand up and speak out against it. Around the globe, females are robbed of their innocence in the form ...
Created on 04 March 2020
64. An ode to every woman fighting social norms around the world
(News & Blog)
... concept. We should look at what we are subjecting our living mothers, sisters, and daughters to in the name of a God who never even said all menstruating women should be shunned.  “Culture ...
Created on 27 February 2020
65. Khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... experiences involved traditional cutting by a dai or a midwife, in unhygienic conditions; where mothers and other women in the family played a vital role. It was a highly secretive and taboo practice, ...
Created on 25 February 2020
66. Voices Series: Finding my voice through storytelling on female genital mutilation/cutting
(News & Blog)
... of FGM/C, we need to create awareness among all facets of the society. Blaming the mothers or the families will not solve the problems. Storytelling is one of the strategies we can amplify our voices and ...
Created on 12 February 2020
67. How Melinda Gates’ Moment of Lift addresses female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... including in the United States. We also had a member who knew that girls in our own town were being cut. Our book club is made up of mothers who live in an upper middle class, educated area in which all ...
Created on 12 January 2020
68. I was impressed with the courage of young women at Sahiyo's Activist Retrea
(News & Blog)
... to reporters and young students ranging in age from high schoolers to college students about the practice of FGM/C in the Bohra community. I have also counseled and educated young mothers and girls on ...
Created on 24 October 2019
69. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore: Part III
(News & Blog)
... force. It’s a natural next step.” This tradition is usually passed down a matrilineal lineage, with the grandmothers and mothers of the family encouraging and sometimes even forcing their children to ...
Created on 02 July 2019
70. My mother thought she was saving me with khafz
(News & Blog)
... priests and their wives at the mosques, preach to the parents and especially to the mothers that “your daughters will have an extramarital affair or pre-marital sex if you do not do this. Save your family’s ...
Created on 20 June 2019
71. The experience of hosting my very own Thaal Pe Charcha
(News & Blog)
... like ours, where one person’s word is law, it is so hard to try to reason with women and mothers, to give them more clarity by pleading with them to not hurt their children. Often, they never seem to be ...
Created on 16 April 2019
72. Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries
(News & Blog)
... FGM, The Cruel Cut- Female Genital Mutilation, and The Cutting Tradition are produced respectively by Al-Jazeera, Channel4 and SafeHands for Mothers in collaboration with the International Federation of ...
Created on 19 February 2019
73. A mother's side of the story on female genital cuttin
(News & Blog)
... them “trusted” their mothers to love them and to protect them. They stated that their mothers had “broken my trust” by continuing a practice without even attempting to understand its implications. Thus, ...
Created on 22 January 2019
74. Female Genital Cutting Diaries: My first encounter with the tradition of female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... case for why many Shia Muslim Dawoodi Bohra mothers and fathers perpetuate the practice 5,000 miles away in India and among diaspora communities such as the one in Detroit, Michigan. I am struck by ...
Created on 18 December 2018
75. Female Genital Cutting charges dismissed but our work continues: Global reactions to Michigan case news
(News & Blog)
... is our federal government sending out to all doctors, mothers, and members who carry out this act? That it’s okay for them to violate girls without any real consequences. And what message are they sending ...
Created on 22 November 2018
76. To ban or medicalise? Sri Lanka grapples with debates on Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... or hood of the clitoris was removed. “It is something that is arranged and done by women. Those who say this is male oppression against women are mistaken. It is we who do it just like our mothers and ...
Created on 17 October 2018
77. To All of You Extraordinary Women Who Survived Female Genital Mutilation, You Are Strong
(News & Blog)
... that your mothers forced upon you, and cried until your lungs were sore. You have a voice. I praise you, my fellow ladies. You fought your mothers, your grandmothers, your aunts, and the person who ...
Created on 11 July 2018
78. Storytelling with Sahiyo: Four actors narrate FGC survivor stories at a unique event
(News & Blog)
... an anonymous mother who regrets getting her daughter cut. The stories highlighted the different ways in which FGC affects women who are cut and the difficult decisions that mothers often have to make when ...
Created on 23 April 2018
79. The U.S. Sahiyo retreat taught me there are different ways of being Bohri in America, and we can all end FGC
(News & Blog)
... our mothers, our sisters, our friends, and ourselves. Everyone came to the retreat with powerful stories about when they first found out about this practice (often when they first underwent it) and what ...
Created on 19 April 2018
80. I attended the U.S. Bohra Activist Retreat because I hope to see an end to FGM/C in my lifetime
(News & Blog)
... of other activists and survivors. At the Sahiyo retreat I was able to hear, grasp and digest information on FGC and how to approach and begin a conversation about FGC to the mothers and especially the ...
Created on 28 February 2018