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1. Exploring Other Forms of Female Genital Alteration
(News & Blog)
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), a time dedicated to raising awareness about sexual violence and advocating for survivor support and prevention. This campaign seeks to open the conversation ...
Created on 10 April 2025
2. Interview with Zehra Patwa of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... of this practice, for me, is that you don’t even give girls and women a chance, by cutting them…you risk so much pain, so much trauma.” A large part of her advocacy relates to her work with her own organization, ...
Created on 20 October 2024
3. Interview with Joanne Golden of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... and mental trauma due to FGM/C and you’re going to have to give them services. Then there’s the prevention part of it which is to let people know that this is not a required religious practice. This is ...
Created on 04 September 2024
4. Sahiyo staff spotlight: Editorial Coordinator Sheena Vasani
(News & Blog)
... with Sahiyo impacted your life?  It’s only been four months but it has been transformative, honestly. I’ve not experienced FGC/M, but I do know what it’s like to experience trauma and suffer in silence ...
Created on 20 May 2024
5. The Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C Interview Series: Jo Keogh
(News & Blog)
... health counselor working with women with post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from gender-based violence. “Trauma is one of the biggest issues we have to deal with personally, societally, globally," ...
Created on 30 April 2024
6. Psychosexual Care for FGM/C Survivors: An Interview with Dr. Reham Awwad
(News & Blog)
By Kiah Leone In celebration of World Sexual Health Day on September 4th, I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Awwad to learn about the types of care and support Restore offers survivors as they ...
Created on 04 September 2023
7. Training and Technical Assistance
(Programs)
...  3 Treating Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation & Cutting: A Culturally Responsive and Trauma-Informed Approach: This training addresses the gap in knowledge among mental health providers ...
Created on 05 October 2022
8. Sahiyo leads training for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners
(News & Blog)
... Trauma Series Blogs and the Mumkin app.      As an organization, Sahiyo hopes to participate in more events like this and continue to evolve training content to fit the needs of survivors and ...
Created on 30 November 2021
9. Female genital cutting: Underacknowledged and underrecognized in the United States
(News & Blog)
By Cate Cox On June 3rd, 2021 Sahiyo partnered with the Connecticut Trauma and Gender Learning Collaborative and The George Washington University associate professor Dr. Karen McDonnell to hold a training ...
Created on 18 June 2021
10. Webinar: Female genital cutting is an under-recognized form of gender-based violence in the U.S.
(News & Blog)
... including cultures of secrecy and silencing, shame felt by survivors, FGM/C as source of generational trauma, and FGM/C as a form of power and control over women. We also explored the lessons from the ...
Created on 30 April 2021
11. Sahiyo stands with AAPI communities experiencing racist violence
(News & Blog)
... and Bluestockings Bookstore, to hear Asian feminist voices speaking out. Trauma is inherited, and the suffering of some in the AAPI community can take a toll on all members. If you are struggling, check ...
Created on 26 April 2021
12. Voices Series: Why I create art that evokes hope for survivors of FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... I used a severe palette of red, black and grey to affirm the physical and psychological trauma of female genital cutting. Rhobi’s story is in equal parts heartbreaking and exhilarating, which, in turn, ...
Created on 16 July 2020
13. What I learned about FGC at Sahiyo’s Virtual Activist Retreat
(News & Blog)
... The first being the Speaker Series where we learned about the neurological and psychological effects of FGC, which includes post-traumatic stress disorder. The Speaker Series, paired with the information ...
Created on 16 July 2020
14. Voices Series: How I found purpose through survivor's storie
(News & Blog)
... on this project has been life-changing. Not that I did not know about female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), but talking directly to people who had to go through such traumatic experiences brought ...
Created on 08 July 2020
15. Voices Series: A Reflection on a nine-month journey
(News & Blog)
By Su Sun When I was contacted by Mariya in the beginning of 2019 to join the Voices to End FGM/C workshop, I’d just found out I was pregnant. Previous experiences of obstetric trauma roamed around my ...
Created on 02 June 2020
16. Voices Series: Why we must continue to protect our girls
(News & Blog)
... people learn. I was encouraged to be part of the group in order to change our community with this tradition of FGM. I shared with women who’ve gone through painful and traumatic experiences as other FGM ...
Created on 27 May 2020
17. Voices Series: How I reconnected with my purpose through storytelling
(News & Blog)
... with myself and acknowledge where I was. It gave my brain time to rejuvenate after revisiting traumatic experiences. These exercises emphasized the importance of taking time out of my everyday life to ...
Created on 20 May 2020
18. Voices Series: Why we must break the silence of FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... means that my pain, my trauma, can be dismissed and brushed aside by others so very easily. It was really cathartic–it always is–to speak or write about my FGM experiences. I deliberately use the term ...
Created on 01 April 2020
19. 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
20. Khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... being a traumatic event in their lives. I interviewed activists as key informants who highlighted that the silence around khatna was breaking – with Tasleem’s petition in 2012, and the arrests in the ...
Created on 25 February 2020