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1. About - Funders & Partners
Created on 02 December 2020
2. About - Our Story
Created on 30 November -0001
3. FAQs
Created on 30 November -0001
4. Sahiyo staff spotlight: Editorial Coordinator Sheena Vasani
(News & Blog)
...  I actually stumbled upon Sahiyo years ago while launching a mental health section as an activist writing for a South Asian publication called Brown Girl Magazine. Mariya had contributed a poignant blog ...
Created on 20 May 2024
5. Our Fight to End FGM in The Gambia: Who is Listening?
(News & Blog)
By: Jaha Dukureh, a Gambian anti-female genital mutilation campaigner and the founder and executive director of Safe Hands for Girls. Jaha was named TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People for 2016 ...
Created on 02 April 2024
6. South Asian SOAR launches Zine
(News & Blog)
In May 2023, South Asian SOAR launched a Zine to commemorate and honor the stories of 16 South Asian survivors of gender-based violence who took part in their 2022 pilot storytelling workshop. The program ...
Created on 17 July 2023
7. Self-Love & Body Image  
(News & Blog)
... that those are the features a human should possess to be attractive and desirable. These expectations have changed over time with ever evolving movies, television shows, magazines, and social media. Today, ...
Created on 17 January 2023
8. Dear Maasi: Is there something wrong with me because I like this kind of sex?
(News & Blog)
... magazine, Glamour.      -BDSM (bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, and sadism-masochism) is one of the most common kinks. Jameela, your preferences lie in this category.      -kink is consensual ...
Created on 05 January 2022
9. Who? A Zine About The Global Impact of FGC
(News & Blog)
... project was to create a Zine that explored a human rights issue important to us, I immediately knew what I wanted to do.  According to the World Health Organization, female genital cutting (FGC) is a ...
Created on 06 December 2021
10. Remembering Egyptian feminist’s heroic fight against female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... in her book The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. She was the founder of the Health Education Association and the Egyptian Women Writers’ Association and was the Chief Editor of Health Magazine in ...
Created on 08 August 2021
11. Sahiyo stands with AAPI communities experiencing racist violence
(News & Blog)
... there are resources meant to support and protect Asian women. You can also check out powerful zine, Asian American Feminist Antibodies , a collaboration between the Asian American Feminist Collective ...
Created on 26 April 2021
12. Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly
(News & Blog)
... top 50 stories of the year for Broadview Magazine in 2020. As she suspected, many women sought her out to share their stories of having been cut.  “I wasn’t that surprised because 90% of the women I ...
Created on 15 January 2021
13. Community Outreach
(Programs)
... discussions on gender-based violence. Reflecting on the use of digital platforms, magazines, theater work, film, and art, learn how storytelling can be a powerful tool for social change and amplify the ...
Created on 03 December 2020
14. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 2: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(News & Blog)
... the trauma, such as dizziness, rapid heartbeat, or sweating. In response to these distressing memories people can develop breathing difficulties, experience disorientation, muscle tension, pounding heart, ...
Created on 26 March 2018
15. Community Outreach
(Uncategorised)
... Violence Work: This presentation will provide information on how Sahiyo’s FGC storytelling programs have helped spark discussions on gender-based violence through use of digital platforms, magazines, ...
Created on 05 October 2016
16. #NoMoreKhatna: Highlights from Sahiyo's animated Twitter chat on FG
(News & Blog)
... news magazine The Economist published a shocking, irresponsible editorial advocating for the allowance of milder, medicalised forms of FGC. Bohras, who predominantly practice Type 1 FGC – removal of ...
Created on 12 July 2016
17. No, even ‘symbolic’ or ‘mild’ female genital cutting is NOT okay
(News & Blog)
... harm that even the least severe forms of FGC can cause. But recently, support for mild, “symbolic” genital cutting came from the most unexpected source – The Economist, a prestigious weekly news magazine ...
Created on 02 July 2016
18. Cafe Dissensus runs a special issue on female circumcision in the Bohra community
(News & Blog)
Cafe Dissensus, an alternative magazine about dissenting art, culture, literature and politics, has run a special May issue focusing solely on female genital cutting or khatna in the Dawoodi Bohra community. ...
Created on 25 May 2016
19. The Practice of Khatna or Female Genital Mutilation amongst the Dawoodi (Daudi) Bohra Shia Muslim Community – Part 1
(News & Blog)
(originally published on Ms. Dilshad Tavawala’s wordpress.com blog on January 17, 2016. Reposted here with permission) By Ms. Dilshad Tavawalla, B.A., LL.M., Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public – Toronto, ...
Created on 19 January 2016
20. FAQs
(Uncategorised)
... action through articles in magazines, other publications, and blogs by survivors of khatna and their supporters. There has also been an online petition appealing to the late Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin ...
Created on 11 January 2016