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81. Dear Maasi: “Did khatna impact my sex life or is it all in my head?”
(News & Blog)
... a negative impact on their sexual lives: fear, anxiety, shame, and difficulty trusting sexual partners  low arousal, inability to feel sexual pleasure and over sensitivity in the clitoral area  In ...
Created on 16 April 2021
82. Dear Maasi: “How do I tell my husband I haven’t enjoyed sex for 15 years?”
(News & Blog)
... more relaxed. Would you like to try that?” instead of “I don’t enjoy sex with you.” Use mindfulness to help you pause when something doesn’t feel right and to deepen pleasure. If you need some guidance ...
Created on 14 March 2021
83. Sahiyo highlights programs intern for scholarship win
(News & Blog)
... Economics, and Arabic. While working at Sahiyo she has helped to organize many dynamic webinars, including Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After FGC, Art, Activism, and Healing: In ...
Created on 08 March 2021
84. Art, Activism, and Healing webinar: In Conversation Around Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... can use art to make a change in their communities, and working toward prevention efforts to end female genital cutting.  Following the vein of one of our previous webinars, Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure ...
Created on 08 January 2021
85. Dear Maasi: How to address sex-negativity and misogyny in a conservative community
(News & Blog)
... Bohra families, sex is seen as a duty that a woman performs. To even have conversations about your own pleasure is so difficult. When I talked about khatna and its impact on sexuality, my mother asked ...
Created on 07 December 2020
86. Sahiyo Resources
(Resources)
... against racist narratives in their work and in their journey toward healing, as well as how systemic racism can delay substantial change on this issue. Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and ...
Created on 04 December 2020
87. Dear Maasi: Why you may want to speak to a trauma-informed therapist after khatna
(News & Blog)
... to understand if khatna might have impacted you in this way.  Fatema, I want you to know that it’s possible to recover and heal from this. You have a right to a pleasure-filled sex life!  —Maasi About ...
Created on 15 October 2020
88. From Saving Safa to Seven: How authors use writing to shed light on FGC
(News & Blog)
... will speak about her work and activism at the Sahiyo webinar, Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After FGC, on October 22nd, at 12 noon. Expert panelists Joanna Vergoth and Sarian Karim-Kamara ...
Created on 08 October 2020
89. My meaningful experience as an intern at Sahiyo
(News & Blog)
By Nicole Mitchell In early 2019, I had the pleasure of joining the Sahiyo team as a Social Media Intern. I remember being a bit nervous, as working fully remote at a new company was something I had ...
Created on 29 September 2020
90. Crave Foundation recognizes Sahiyo co-founder Mariya Taher as 2020 grantee
(News & Blog)
... to end FGC. She is one of five 2020 grantees. The Crave Foundation acknowledges that “pleasure is a universal human right that can not be fully realized where there is injustice and violence against ...
Created on 06 August 2020
91. Volunteer Spotlight: Programs Intern Hunter Kessous
(News & Blog)
... much more than I anticipated. I’m eager to continue broadening my knowledge and understanding of FGC through my work with Sahiyo. I’ve also had the pleasure of meeting many wonderful anti-FGC advocates ...
Created on 30 July 2020
92. How COVID-19 impacts programs devoted to ending gender-based violence, including female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... Scars and Magool came together to co-host the Africa Led Movement Webinar series. In May, I had the pleasure of attending the second part of the series which addressed GBV during the current pandemic.  ...
Created on 21 July 2020
93. Sri Lanka’s first survey on FGM/C: Survivors need space to talk and access to medical care
(News & Blog)
... the practice of FGC from the perspective of survivors; to interpret the practice in relation to their health, sexual pleasure, bodily integrity and relationship with family, community and faith; and to ...
Created on 14 April 2020
94. Survivor: Why labia elongation is female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... the genital area.” Labia elongation is encouraged to enhance sexual pleasure not only for men, but for women as well. Whether the prior WHO classification, which actually included “stretching of the ...
Created on 06 February 2020
95. Discovering female genital cutting in my community
(News & Blog)
... a child at the age of seven and altering her anatomy forever is not okay. That depriving a woman from experiencing pleasure during sexual activity is not okay. That potentially causing severe pain and ...
Created on 18 June 2019
96. When I found out my friend had undergone female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... is purely to reduce or remove a woman’s sexual pleasure, and I fail to see how that benefits anyone. To the parents: If you think it will help you control your teenage daughter’s raging hormones better, ...
Created on 07 May 2019
97. Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries
(News & Blog)
... Reversing Female Circumcision: The Cut that Heals (2015), The Cut: Exploring FGM (2017), Jaha’s Promise (2017), Cutting the Cut (2018). Another talked about documentary of 2018, Female Pleasure, though ...
Created on 19 February 2019
98. Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance
(News & Blog)
... to keep women’s premarital virginity and marital fidelity in check. Due to the extreme pain that intercourse typically causes in infibulated women, women do not get sexual pleasure. FGC is frequently claimed ...
Created on 05 February 2019
99. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 5: The “C” Word… and I Don’t Mean Circumcision
(News & Blog)
... and its function. But first a bit of history, or—more appropriately—herstory. In over 5 million years of human evolution, only one organ exists for the sole purpose of providing pleasure — the clitoris. ...
Created on 28 September 2018
100. Let there be no more victims like me
(News & Blog)
... with my religious beliefs. It has ended up representing the beliefs of others and not mine. The religious belief of others has also denied me pleasure that was my right and right given to me in the Qur’an. ...
Created on 27 September 2018