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04/10/2023

The AHA Foundation is a great resource for direct services to survivors and awareness raising surrounding the issues of FGM/C. See below for more information!

03/08/2022

Celebrating International Women’s Day! Appreciating all women and their contributions worldwide.

International Women's Day 2022 theme is 'Break the Bias' - |

12/23/2021

Wishing you and yours a peaceful and healthy holiday season.

11/08/2021

This will be a wonderful, informative event! Register below.

Meet our first panelist for “Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After FGC Pt.2”, Nazneen Vasi. Nazneen Vasi is the founder of Body Harmony Physical Therapy and a licensed pelvic floor therapist with 15 years of experience. Nazneen started working in the field of pelvic rehabilitation in 2006, developing a passion and expertise in bladder and bowel function and health, sexual function and health, chronic pelvic pain, pudendal neuralgia and prenatal and postpartum care.

Tune in to hear Nazneen share her experience in empowering patients through their healthcare journey to improve their health and quality of life.

Join us this November 17th, at 1 pm EST to hear from her and about her work. Register today: https://bit.ly/MovingFurther

09/15/2021

StoryCenter Sahiyos Voices project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together to share and heal from their experiences of female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.

Ten years ago, Priya directed and filmed the first documentary film uncovering the practice of khatna (female ge***al mutilation or cutting, or FGM/C) among the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community in India. While she received a national award for her work, she was unsettled by the Islamophobia that surfaced among viewers. In this film, Priya reflects on her decade-long journey on uncovering the practice of Female Khatna, the growing Islamophobia in India and around the world, and her experience of coming together with storytellers from across the globe.

Watch Priya’s video at: http://bit.ly/MediumPriy

Ten years ago, Priya directed and filmed the first documentary film uncovering the practice of khatna (female ge***al mutilation or cutting, or FGM/C) among ...

08/24/2021

StoryCenter SahiyoVoice’s project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together to share and heal from their experiences of female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.

In this chilling story, Somaya recounts her experience of being cut as a girl in a “group mutilation event” held in her community in Egypt. As she names the ways in which women’s bodies, voices, and freedoms are denied by the state, Somaya then describes fleeing to Turkey, where her attempts to connect with other survivors of female ge***al cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) result only in women accusing her of being “anti-Muslim.”

Watch Somaya’s video at:

In this chilling story, Somaya recounts her experience of being cut as a girl in a “group mutilation event” held in her community in Egypt. As she names the ...

08/16/2021

StoryCenter SahiyoVoice’s project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together to share and heal from their experiences of female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.

What comparisons can be drawn between girls’ experiences of growing up in religious traditions that believe women’s sexuality is something that must be controlled? How do these beliefs diminish women’s ability to be fully human? Nicole explores these questions by linking her own Christian upbringing in the United States with the belief shared among female ge***al cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) practicing-communities globally that women’s bodies are not acceptable, as they are.

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What comparisons can be drawn between girls’ experiences of growing up in religious traditions that believe women’s sexuality is something that must be contr...

08/09/2021

StoryCenter SahiyoVoice’s project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together to share and heal from their experiences of female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.

Nesha, a children’s rights advocate, learns of the links between child marriage and female ge***al cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) as she follows the 2017 court case against a Bohra doctor in Michigan accused of cutting. Wanting to know more about the practice in the Bohra Muslim community, she is deeply moved when she meets a survivor. Today, Nesha’s commitment to advocating against FGM/C continues to grow.

Watch Nesha’s story at:

Nesha, a children’s rights advocate, learns of the links between child marriage and female ge***al cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) as she follows the 2017 court c...

08/03/2021

StoryCenter SahiyoVoice’s project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together to share and heal from their experiences of female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.

A dinner table conversation turned into a revelation, for this storyteller, who was shocked to learn that khatna (female ge***al cutting/mutilation, or FGM/C) is practiced in her Bohra Muslim community. She was aware of FGM/C but had no idea that some of the girls she grew up with may have undergone it. While her parents urge her to keep quiet about the fact that she was not cut, she chooses a different path, in speaking openly.

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A dinner table conversation turned into a revelation, for this storyteller, who was shocked to learn that khatna (female ge***al cutting/mutilation, or FGM/C...

07/26/2021

StoryCenter SahiyoVoices’s project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers from across the globe. We bring activists together to share their experiences with female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short digital stories calling for an end to this harmful practice.

In this compelling story, Arefa recalls a trip to Kenya with her family when she was a child, when she was told, “If someone asks if it has been done, say yes.” Only later did she understand that her grandmother and mother were referring to khatna (female ge***al cutting/mutilation, or FGM/C). As a doctor and a mother, Arefa questions why this ritual continues within different communities, and urges parents who have decided not to subject their daughters to the tradition to share this decision with pride.

Watch Arefa’s video at:

In this compelling story, Arefa recalls a trip to Kenya with her family when she was a child, when she was told, “If someone asks if it has been done, say ye...

07/21/2021

StoryCenter SahiyoVoices’s project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together to share and heal from their experiences of female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.

Absa joined her peers in teasing girls who had not been cut, until she learned the devastating impacts of the practice, by participating in a women’s rights group. Since then, she has spoken against female ge***al cutting/mutilation (FGM/C) across the Gambia, in West Africa, and also in the United States, where she now resides. She struggles with the fact that she cannot convince some of her own family members that cutting is wrong.

Watch Absa’s video at:

StoryCenter and Sahiyo, project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together ...

07/19/2021

StoryCenter SahiyoVoice’s project is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe. We bring people together to share and heal from their experiences of female ge***al mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.

In her story, Lola takes a journey to visit her mother, as well as a journey into the past, to explore why she was cut. Her mother tells her that she did it “as an act of love,” to ensure Lola could find a good marriage, but Lola knows that the Nigerian tradition of female ge***al cutting/mutilation (FGM/C), upheld by generations of women in her family, is not about love, but about patriarchy. She wonders if her physical and psychic wounds will ever heal.

Watch Lola’s video at:

In her story, Lola takes a journey to visit her mother, as well as a journey into the past, to explore why she was cut. Her mother tells her that she did it ...