By Jeniffer Dias When I learned I had an opportunity to participate in the Voices to End FGM/C workshop, I first talked with my mentor, Bárbara Oliveira, and told her that I would like to talk about myself. She told me: “This is the moment to remove your ‘mask’ and...
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, I want to educate. FGM, deeply rooted in tradition, often goes unquestioned. By unveiling the raw pain and...
By Aries Nuño In participating in Sahiyo's Voices to End FGM/C digital storytelling workshop, I chose to share a story that examined my journey toward understanding women’s health. This journey was not just a personal quest, but a response to a disquieting cultural reality: the pervasive silence among generations of...
By Faizneen Bharmal Growing up in a progressive and well-educated Dawoodi Bohra family, the topic of Khatna, commonly known as female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) around the world, was always shrouded in silence. The subject was rarely broached unless one became a parent, at which point it became relevant. For the...
Why did you want to attend the workshop and share your story? I wanted to attend this workshop because I wanted to get a sense of the process of storytelling from a survivor’s and advocate's perspective. I am keeping in my heart hundreds of stories that survivors from my community have...
Why did you want to attend the workshop and share your story? I attended the workshop to learn about digital storytelling as another medium of communication in my advocacy work to stop female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). What story did you choose to tell and create into a digital story? I...
“Everything I learned from the workshop was gold to me. I enjoyed all the sessions and the new skills I acquired in creating a digital story (...) about a scar. A scar that my primary duty bearers believed was necessary to have in order to be labeled as the “purified”...
"It's just so different from my mom's expectations … I kind of feel like I'm disappointing her a little bit, you know?" - Afiqa Mariya speaks with three Voices storytellers representing issues and communities not typically included in discussions of FGM/C: Comfort talks about labial pulling, a little-known practice in...
"When people bring it up, it's an opportunity to ground FGM/C within the world of violence against girls and women." - ArefaVoices storyteller Arefa Cassoobhoy introduces this detailed exploration of the 2017 legal case against a Bohra physician in Michigan, which made headline news and put the topic of FGM/C on...
"By the gestures, at the beginning, it seemed like a friendly conversation…" - JonathanVoices alumni Su and her husband Jonathan talk with Mariya about grappling with the realities of FGM/C in the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community. Both Su and Mariya grew up in Bohra households, and together, they explore the...
Voices to End FGM/C is mobilizing a critical mass of storytellers and activists from across the globe by bringing them together to share and heal from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), connect and grow as leaders, and create short videos calling for an end to this harmful practice.
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