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1. About - Our Story
Created on 30 November -0001
2. Cave of Consciousness
(News & Blog)
Recently Sahiyo’s Editorial Assistant Megan Seaver sat down with 2022 Voices to End FGM/C Alum Ibtisam  to discuss the screening of her Voices digital story at the 2024 Trauma-Informed Film Festival, Leeds, ...
Created on 23 January 2025
3. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
By; Samman Masud In this digital short film, “What Not to Say”, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about the experiences and conversations I had with my community members around the time I gave ...
Created on 24 December 2024
4. "The Beginning" screened at a special Thaal Pe Charcha event in Mumba
(News & Blog)
... “The Beginning.” A short fiction film on FGC written and directed by Sahiyo co-founder Insia Dariwala, “The Beginning” is about the trauma and dilemma of a Bohra mother whose daughter is set to undergo ...
Created on 11 December 2024
5. Global Collaboration to End FGM/C Conference 2024
(News & Blog)
... attendees also watched a private screening of the short film, “The Beginning”, directed by Sahiyo Co-Founder Insia Dariwala. The film captures a mother’s trauma as a survivor of FGM/C, and her mission ...
Created on 18 November 2024
6. Reflecting on a Screening of The Beginning, a Film Directed by Sahiyo Co-founder Insia Dariwala
(News & Blog)
By Insia Dariwala On July 19th, Population First/ Laadli, along with Sahiyo India and Equality Now, hosted a screening of South Asia’s first fiction film on FGC titled, The Beginning. Produced by Equality ...
Created on 27 August 2024
7. Impactful Media Reporting on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States: A Reflection on our April 17, 2024 Webinar
(News & Blog)
... filmmaker Milena Warns from Without Exception Films. The moderators were Sahiyo Co-founder and U.S. Executive Director, Mariya Taher, and Equality Now Communications Officer for North America, Mel ...
Created on 21 May 2024
8. Upcoming Event: "Impactful Media Reporting on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States: A Conversation
(News & Blog)
... and advocacy experts, including Senator Karen Kaiser, Emma Batha of Thomson Reuters Foundation News, journalist Milena Mikael Debass, and documentary filmmaker Milena Warns from Without Exception Films. ...
Created on 09 April 2024
9. Equality Now releases the trailer of Asia’s first fiction film on FGM/C, directed by Sahiyo co-founder, Insia Dariwala
(News & Blog)
... Beginning.” Written and directed by Sahiyo’s co-founder Insia Dariwala, it’s the Asian continent’s first ever fiction film on Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C). Inspired by real survivors who ...
Created on 12 March 2024
10. A Personal Journey: Breaking the Silence on FGM
(News & Blog)
By Isatou Jallow In my film “Behind The Wall,” I've chosen to share my deeply personal experience with Type 3 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Through this storytelling, my aim is threefold. First, ...
Created on 11 January 2024
11. Upcoming Equality Now media training
(News & Blog)
... the recipient of a National Film Award for her documentary 'A Pinch of Skin,' the first documentary from India to speak about the practice of FGM/C. Through the lens of a filmmaker and a communication designer, ...
Created on 08 December 2023
12. Reflecting on There’s an App For That?: Technological Innovation and Change Towards Ending Female Genital Cutting event
(News & Blog)
... the webinar were leading innovators addressing FGC through technological solutions. The first was Priya Goswami, a Sahiyo Co-founder who has used her background in filmmaking and storytelling to create ...
Created on 30 March 2023
13. Session on FGM at the workshop Nayi Dishayein- Rethinking Development
(News & Blog)
... Skin for our participants. The film was followed by a short presentation detailing the practice of FGM/C and its categorization as a human rights violation by the World Health Organization.  I find the ...
Created on 06 February 2023
14. Self-Love & Body Image  
(News & Blog)
... the expectations we see for body image today. The beauty standards we observe in films and media that are closely tied with ethnicity, race, body shape, and other features influence viewers to believe ...
Created on 17 January 2023
15. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... Advisory Board chair, internal medicine physician, and chief medical editor of EverydayHealth.com Dr. Arefa Cassoobhoy. Panelists included poet, playwright, filmmaker, and producer Dena Igusti (they/them), ...
Created on 01 August 2022
16. Including non-cis-women as FGM/C survivors
(News & Blog)
... left out of their own healing because we only associate FGM/C with womanhood.  /p> Dena Igusti is a queer non binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist ...
Created on 31 May 2022
17. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
...    Dena Igusti (they/them) is a queer non-binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT ...
Created on 25 May 2022
18. Sahiyo India holds guest lecture for students in Mumbai
(News & Blog)
... two short films from Sahiyo and StoryCentre's Voices to End FGM/C series: Why by Fakhera, and A Chorus of Voices by Aarefa. The lecture then helped students understand what FGC is, why it is practiced, ...
Created on 09 March 2022
19. Struggle, belonging, and community: Sahiyo and StoryCenter hosted a Voices to End FGM/C screening
(News & Blog)
By Sandra Yu On August 19th, 2021, Sahiyo and StoryCenter co-hosted a film screening and panel discussion to highlight voices from the Voices to End FGM/C Digital Storytelling workshop. The event ...
Created on 17 September 2021
20. Voices reflection: Sharing my narrative
(News & Blog)
... note--a note of hope.  This coming together of a community of women sharing stories, tears, joys, aspirations, dreams, fears, and sacrifices was healing. The film editing is over, the written drafts ...
Created on 08 September 2021