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41. 31 US States Now Have Laws Against Female Genital Cutting, But Government Will Not Appeal in the Federal Michigan Case
(News & Blog)
... pass their own laws banning genital cutting for girls and women, which is now vital since the District Court has ruled that FGC is a state-level crime.  Meanwhile, in India, a group of grassroots Muslim ...
Created on 05 May 2019
42. For survivors and their doctors: An online tool about female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... in the American-Muslim community, as well as advocates against FGC. The team at GWU was awarded the health-focused funding to do work on a project that would teach other health practitioners how to give ...
Created on 02 May 2019
43. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore: Part II
(News & Blog)
... the cut has no effect on cleanliness, Muslim interlocutors believed it still helps with cleanliness, which was pivotal to their religiosity. Religiously, FGC is expounded upon in a hadith (record of the ...
Created on 30 April 2019
44. Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Issue?
(News & Blog)
... Rights, can only apply to people from “Western” cultures, and different standards should be used to judge the practices of people from “non-Western” cultures like Dawoodi Bohra Muslims. Unfortunately, ...
Created on 20 March 2019
45. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... that female circumcision was found exclusively among Muslims, which led him to believe that it was not an indigenous practice, but rather one “borrowed from the Arabs”. In the only anthropological study ...
Created on 19 March 2019
46. Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance
(News & Blog)
... in getting rid of wanzo. In India, Bohra Muslims are evidentially the most significant community practicing FGC, which is termed as khafz. As per the believers of the community, Da’i al-Mutlaq, also ...
Created on 05 February 2019
47. A mother's side of the story on female genital cuttin
(News & Blog)
... in the case of khatna, which is a custom among the Bohri Muslims in India which involves partial or total removal of the clitoris, girls may subconsciously blame their mother for failing to “protect” them, ...
Created on 22 January 2019
48. Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018
(News & Blog)
... to survivors to privately share their experiences of harm and trauma, a number of Muslim Sri Lankan groups came together to defend their version of female “circumcision”. They claimed that circumcision ...
Created on 16 January 2019
49. Female Genital Cutting Diaries: My first encounter with the tradition of female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... were Christian. The rest were Muslim, and remain among the loveliest people I’ve ever met. Out of love and many other complicated reasons, the Sunni Muslim community members cut their girls, as is the ...
Created on 18 December 2018
50. Mariya Receives Human Rights Storytellers Award
(News & Blog)
The Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA), a civic and community organization committed to promoting individual freedom and diversity, and to celebrating Muslim American heritage, honored Sahiyo Co-founder, ...
Created on 10 December 2018
51. Examining Female Genital Cutting and Intersectionality
(News & Blog)
... extolled the virtues of the economically and educationally advanced Bohras, who were allegedly setting a great example for their impoverished and persecuted Muslim countrymen. Seeing Modi on stage, Bohra ...
Created on 27 November 2018
52. Female Genital Cutting charges dismissed but our work continues: Global reactions to Michigan case news
(News & Blog)
... our elected officials. Two, recently elected, Muslim women representatives from Michigan and Minnesota (the two states involved) have failed to use their platforms to proactively address this issue. FGM ...
Created on 22 November 2018
53. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor (2022-06-23)
(Events Calendar/A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor)
... Igusti (they/them) is a queer non-binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game ...
Created on 29 June 2022
54. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration Live Kick-Off Event (2023-03-08)
(Events Calendar/Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration Live Kick-Off Event)
... event to help raise awareness and funds to support Sahiyo’s work to end female genital cutting and support survivors to heal. Zahra is a Feminist Muslim, Iranian-American comedian, story producer at Snap ...
Created on 05 February 2023
55. Sahiyo Discusses: Cut Woman by Dena Igusti (27 September 2023 19:00)
(Events / Sahiyo Book Club )
... Dena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020), which has been listed as a 2020 Harvard Bookstore Staff Pick and ...
Created on 22 September 2023
56. AFTTAP-Hosted Webinar on Digital Storytelling (01 August 2023 10:30)
(Events / Webinar)
... genital cutting/mutilation (FGM/C). In 2018, Mariya received the Human Rights Storytellers Award from the Muslim American Leadership Alliance for her innovative approach in using storytelling to engage ...
Created on 10 July 2023
57. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration Live Kick-Off Event (08 March 2023 20:00)
(Events / Fundraising Event)
... Muslim, Iranian-American comedian, story producer at Snap Judgment, and cohost of the award-winning podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim. Join us to support an important cause and an evening of entertainment, ...
Created on 28 March 2023
58. Sahiyo to be a part of a new global movement for progressive Muslims
(News & Blog)
From September 29 to October 1, at a unique convention held in Tunisia, more than a dozen progressive Muslim organisations from around the world came together to create a new global movement: the Alliance ...
Created on 21 October 2017
59. U.S. Muslim Leaders Stance on FGM/C (also known as Female Circumcision)
(News & Blog)
(Originally document can be found here. Republished with permission on 6/7/2017) We, Muslim organizations, FGM/C Survivors, Islamic scholars, and leaders, strongly condemn the remarks made in the video ...
Created on 08 June 2017
60. My Body Is Not Mine – A Muslim woman’s commentary on body autonomy
(News & Blog)
... that all Muslims, regardless of gender, had to go through. It wasn’t up for discussion or debate. It was a non-issue to her, and it should be a non-issue to me too.   I didn’t know I had been circumcised ...
Created on 15 September 2016