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21. Reflecting on Being Seen
(News & Blog)
... understand patriarchal systems and how to resist them. How survivors' own radial embrace of their bodily autonomy and sexuality helped me to embrace my own. And finally, how their words helped me to feel ...
Created on 11 April 2023
22. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Danae Laura
(News & Blog)
... include a culture that practices FGM, but I am familiar with how women are disempowered physically, economically, and politically by cultural practices. Separate from FGM/C, the common practice of hypersexualizing ...
Created on 03 March 2023
23. CWCSEO issues press release on International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... reasons to control a girl’s sexuality and make her acceptable for marriage and to the community in which she lives. It is usually performed on young girls between the ages of birth and puberty. It is an ...
Created on 06 February 2023
24. Session on FGM at the workshop Nayi Dishayein- Rethinking Development
(News & Blog)
... members of our society. Being a male member of a community that practices this, I believe it is my responsibility to spread awareness regarding this harm that is often done to seek control of the sexuality ...
Created on 06 February 2023
25. Reflecting on an Israeli Minister’s decision to not grant asylum for a woman fleeing female genital mutilation/cutting
(News & Blog)
... are large reasons that FGM/C continues, and institutions that uphold the social norm of FGM/C, this harmful practice must be seen as gender-based violence, a suppression of feminine sexuality and freedom, ...
Created on 11 January 2023
26. Volunteer spotlight: Umme Kulsoom Arif
(News & Blog)
... to terms with my sexuality, leading to me coming out to my parents as asexual. That was when my mother told me that my fear of intimacy was intentionally done, and suddenly more than a few childhood memories ...
Created on 16 December 2022
27. Dear Maasi addresses pain and pleasure
(News & Blog)
Dear Maasi is a column about everything you wanted to know about sex and relationships but were afraid to ask! It’s a partnership between Sahiyo and WeSpeakOut, and is for all of us who have questions ...
Created on 30 November 2022
28. Why sex educators need to know about female genital cutting (FGC)
(News & Blog)
By Hunter Kessous From sophomore through senior year, I was a member of the Student Sexuality Information Service (SSIS), a completely student-run organization of sex educators. SSIS offers an array ...
Created on 28 November 2022
29. Dear Maasi: "Should I confront the person responsible for my khatna (FGM/C)?"
(News & Blog)
Dear Maasi is a column about everything you wanted to know about sex and relationships but were afraid to ask! It’s a partnership between Sahiyo and WeSpeakOut, and is for all of us who have questions ...
Created on 26 October 2022
30. PRESS RELEASE: Sahiyo & Asian Women’s Shelter Collaborate to Inform Crisis Line for Survivors of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(News & Blog)
... From its beginnings, AWS has operated at and centered the intersection of culture, violence, language, gender, immigration, nationality, sexuality, and more. Since then, AWS has grown and deepened its ...
Created on 24 August 2022
31. How to have a dialogue: Storytelling & Conversations
(News & Blog)
... and understanding of FGC in Pakistan. Since any topic that deals with female genitalia or sexuality is seen as shameful in Pakistani society, it may take a while for people to engage in open dialogue about ...
Created on 23 August 2022
32. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... of their own journey in understanding sexuality and gender as survivors of FGC, along with the harms of a false assumption that every survivor of FGC identifies as a woman. While it is true that FGC impacts ...
Created on 01 August 2022
33. Activists Retreat Reflection: Umme's experienc
(News & Blog)
... Was I less valid within the LGBTQIA+ community because of the trauma I had endured that shaped the way I viewed my gender and sexuality? Was I less valid within the Sahiyo community because I was only ...
Created on 29 July 2022
34. Sahiyo wins grant from Peace Development Fund
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo U.S. would like to thank our friends at the Peace Development Fund for a core support grant award of $5,000.00. The Peace Development Fund supports organizations who are working to shift power, ...
Created on 09 July 2022
35. Including non-cis-women as FGM/C survivors
(News & Blog)
... my therapist tells me that regardless of my sexuality and how I perceive sex, I’m still a woman. On most websites and articles, FGM/C refers to the vagina as “girl’s genitals.” From language to resources, ...
Created on 31 May 2022
36. A love letter to my mother who cut me
(News & Blog)
By Afiqa Years ago, I learned of Malay classical and modern manuscripts on sex and erotic imageries by Malay women writers at a talk. Most were written under pseudonyms or not given credit if not a man. ...
Created on 31 May 2022
37. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... are survivors of FGC identify with cis-heterosexual womanhood; not every survivor is a woman. As non-binary anti-FGC activist Dena Igusti said in an article for Womanly, “The quiet violence of FGM is that ...
Created on 25 May 2022
38. Dear Maasi: Will my daughter ever forgive me?
(News & Blog)
Dear Maasi is a column about everything you wanted to know about sex and relationships but were afraid to ask! It’s a partnership between Sahiyo and WeSpeakOut, and is for all of us who have questions ...
Created on 06 April 2022
39. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: Turning my Dad into a Bhaiyo
(News & Blog)
... the whole community has to be involved. Additionally, the systems that have supported FGM/C are patriarchal and stem from the control of women's bodies and sexuality. If men uphold those systems and beliefs ...
Created on 09 March 2022
40. Reflecting on the 'How to Stop The Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia' webina
(News & Blog)
... co-founder, Insia Dariwala, the webinar featured a panel of experts in female sexual and reproductive health: Saza Faradilla, Kalpana Swaminathan, Ibu Atas, and Dr. Nozer Sheriar. The discussion was centred ...
Created on 09 February 2022