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81. Reflections on the Voices alumni COVID-19 storytelling workshop
(News & Blog)
...  It must be noted that this session was held days after the shameless murder of George Floyd, as protests against police brutality and hundreds of years of structural racism began to spark.  It was ...
Created on 11 June 2020
82. Voices Series: A Reflection on a nine-month journey
(News & Blog)
... of oppression operating behind them: patriarchy and racism entangled. Nine months of a journey where my belly was growing and the story was being created. The experience of using the digital storytelling ...
Created on 02 June 2020
83. How Melinda Gates’ Moment of Lift addresses female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... The ostracism and loss of support they have felt their whole lives is an extreme deterrent.  This tied into Melinda’s journey of speaking out in support of birth control, despite being Catholic. She ...
Created on 12 January 2020
84. Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance
(News & Blog)
... cultural influences. Considerable communal pressure for performing FGC involves the threat of social ostracism. Local structures of authoritative forces ensure the continuation of the practice by implementing ...
Created on 05 February 2019
85. Looking from the Outside-In: Initial Perceptions of Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... and shamed for where it is they come from. After this incident, many Americans, without knowing the truth about Ilhan Omar’s position on the FGC/M case, replied with intense anger and racism against ...
Created on 21 September 2018
86. The story of my start to the holy month of Ramzan
(News & Blog)
... family members. They are afraid of the humiliation, of the subtle ostracism, and the backlash from their jamaats, so they choose to stay anonymous. Anonymity has its own comfort. It allows you to speak ...
Created on 05 June 2017
87. No, even ‘symbolic’ or ‘mild’ female genital cutting is NOT okay
(News & Blog)
... expect a deep-rooted practice like FGC to come to a complete halt after just 30 years of campaigning? If social change were possible that quickly, America wouldn’t be struggling with racism 50 after the ...
Created on 02 July 2016
88. One Woman's Reactions to Bakersfield’s Resolution against Khatna (FGC
(News & Blog)
... being unrelenting pressure to perform the cutting or social ostracism.   To the families with young girls in Bakersfield and throughout the U.S. – please listen. This is your chance to end this practice ...
Created on 13 June 2016
89. FEMALE GENITAL CUTTING A Continuing Tradition
(News & Blog)
... like them anywhere else. They need that and now they’re old and they want it even more. She continues to explain: It’s the social ostracism that people are worried about. ...
Created on 17 January 2016
90. FAQs
(Uncategorised)
... hinting at underlying ethnocentrism and racism. However, all forms of FGC are a form of social norm, and regardless of what form of FGC is performed, they are all being done on girls who are too young ...
Created on 11 January 2016
91. Racism
(Tags)
Racism
Created on 06 December 2021
92. The World Bank hosts webinar on the Intersectionality between Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and Racism
(Article tagged with: Racism)
On November 9th, Sahiyo co-founder Mariya Taher participated as a speaker in the World Bank-hosted Webinar “Intersectionality: Female Genital Mutilation and Racism.”  The webinar was an event of the ...
Created on 06 December 2021