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Created on 30 November -0001
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Created on 30 November -0001
3. Reflecting on the Critical Intersections Webinar
(News & Blog)
... Study. The event explored Sahiyo’s Critical Intersections Research Project from its inception in 2021 to the present in 2025.  Mariya shared how a 2021 webinar focused on how racism impacted the movement ...
Created on 21 March 2025
4. Supporting Survivors in the LGBTQIA+ Community: How Sahiyo Helped Afiqa Attend the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week
(News & Blog)
... Between Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Social Oppressions” (February 2024), barriers to ending FGM/C are impacted by social oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, hostilities against ...
Created on 06 February 2025
5. Sahiyo research uplifts how intersectionality impacts the movement to end FGM/C this February 6th
(News & Blog)
... examine the impact of systemic racism on the movement, this three-stage mixed-methods project has expanded that initial scope to understand the interplay between FGM/C and other oppressive forces such ...
Created on 06 February 2025
6. Critical Intersections Research Shifts Towards Implementation of Findings in Technical Assistance Trainings
(News & Blog)
... that could introduce the importance of building collaborative relationships based on understanding the intersectionality of our siloed issues.  Our first training, Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism ...
Created on 14 January 2025
7. Sahiyo U.S. Joins Massachusetts Community Health and Healthy Aging Funds in 15.8M Initiative to address systemic barriers to health
(News & Blog)
... institutional and structural racism head-on. During the pandemic, the need to support such efforts is even more imperative. In total ~$15.8M in grants will support 26 lead organizations and more than ...
Created on 26 September 2024
8. Reflecting on the 2024 Asian Pacific Institute for Gender Based Violence National Summit
(News & Blog)
... Asian in America, which brings with it intersecting forms of oppressions like racism and sexism.  As an activist working to address FGC among South Asian community members in the U.S., I could relate ...
Created on 13 September 2024
9. The Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C Interview Series: Caitlin LeMay
(News & Blog)
... behavior.” These racial stereotypes only serve to perpetuate problems in the U.S. “The root of the US not reconciling with ... is completely rooted in racism and anti-blackness. Not being able ...
Created on 20 August 2024
10. Headline: Understanding the Critical Intersections of FGM/C with other social injustices: Encouraging dialogue on cross-movement collaboration
(News & Blog)
... systemic racism and FGM/C) To compile tools, resources, case studies, and more that illustrate how cross-collaboration can be carried out within the larger social justice field  If you and your organization ...
Created on 14 May 2024
11. Critical Intersections of FGM/C: Law and Policy in Systems of Oppression Presentation
(News & Blog)
... law and policy will be discussed within the context of religion, race/racism, and xenophobia. An intersectional framework highlights the need for those working within the FGM/C sphere to understand the ...
Created on 16 April 2024
12. Sahiyo publishes second report from Critical Intersections Research Project
(News & Blog)
... within systems and institutions, included intersections between several forms of oppression such as xenophobia and racism with institutions like law enforcement. Many survey participants identified fear ...
Created on 02 February 2024
13. Presenting the Critical Intersections Research Project to The Girl Generation
(News & Blog)
... presentation shared background information on the Critical Intersections Research Project, tracing its roots back to Sahiyo’s 2021 public webinar titled Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism and Female Genital ...
Created on 08 December 2023
14. PRESS RELEASE: Sahiyo publishes Examining the Current State of Critical Intersections: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Social Oppressions report
(News & Blog)
... sprung from a webinar that Sahiyo U.S. hosted in July of 2021 titled, “Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C).” This discussion highlighted how systemic racism ...
Created on 03 October 2023
15. Sahiyo Discusses book club to hold next event in September
(News & Blog)
... Muslims around the world due to xenophobia and Islamophobia; the deaths of Indonesians as a result of post-colonialism, state violence, environmental racism, and overall media negligence and prioritization ...
Created on 06 September 2023
16. Critical Intersections
(Programs)
... and sexuality, bodily autonomy, race/racism, religion, feminism, and law and policy.  Our trainings support organizations to do the following: Build holistic programs that identify the intersectional ...
Created on 28 August 2023
17. Sahiyo to launch first report from Examining Intersections Between FGM/C and other Social Oppressions Research Project
(News & Blog)
... hosted a public webinar titled, “Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)." The discussion highlighted how systemic racism negatively effects the fight against ...
Created on 16 August 2023
18. Volunteer spotlight: Naquia
(News & Blog)
... such as Islamophobia and systemic racism, on the movement to end FGC. I’ve been able to use my background in research to help support this work by interviewing activists and providing qualitative analysis. ...
Created on 18 January 2023
19. Sahiyo Discusses: You Still Look the Same, a discussion with Farzana Doctor
(News & Blog)
... familial responses to her same sex relationship, and misogyny and racism that has followed her from childhood. Though heart-wrenching and emotionally stirring, Farzana’s voice also rings with humour and ...
Created on 24 October 2022
20. Volunteer spotlight: Jessica Ladi Ibrahim Puri
(News & Blog)
... far, I am doing some writing and helping with the Critical Intersections research project, which seeks to explore how systemic racism has negatively impacted both the global movement to end FGM/C and the ...
Created on 23 September 2022