@sgikandi wife 💜 Disruptor, Wellbeing expert, social entrepreneur, founder @dahliaproject1 @MagoolEndFGM Co-founder @SafeSpaces4BW ✊🏾❤🙏🏾
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A New Year's Reflection: Embracing Humanity in All Its Forms and a Call For Human Compassion. As the new year dawns, I'm in a reflective state, reevaluating the world around me, confronting realities I cannot ignore. #NewYearsReflection #Humanity"
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
Can a state that bought its citizens' silence with oil now ask them to die in a war?
@aalodah, whose father Salman al-Ouda has been imprisoned in Saudi Arabia since 2017, joins @iyad_elbaghdadi on 'How to Liberate'.
Out soon at kulna.co
You were comfortable with my pain. Why not my pleasure?
Survivors of sexual violence deserve more than a lifetime defined by trauma.
Our bodies are not up for negotiation. Neither is our pleasure.
My latest article:
drleylahussein.substack.com/…
#EndFGM #endVAW #SexualViolence
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
Saudi Arabia spends around $80 billion a year on its military, yet it can’t reliably protect its own territory. In this new episode of How to Liberate, Ahmed Gatnash and Iyad El-Baghdadi trace why: two bargains the Gulf monarchies were built on, and why both are breaking.
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
If you want to get the entire argument in one place (but not necessarily in my voice), find it on @kulna_co, here:
kulna.co/how-to-liberate/blo…
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
We are heartbroken by the loss of our friend and colleague @ori_goldberg , who passed away on Saturday at the age of 50. It is with hearts full of grief that we mourn him, and in everything we do, we will miss him.
This truly hurts, deeply saddened and heartbroken to hear this, @ori_goldberg our dear friend, your voice, laughter and our conversation will live with me forever. Thank you for everything you have done for all of us.
For decades, the world has asked FGM survivors what was taken from us.
It’s time we talked about what we desire.
Sex. Pleasure. Orgasms. Queer sexuality. Intimacy. Sexual agency.
My new article: How to Have Sex with an FGM Survivor
drleylahussein.substack.com/…
#FGM #SexualAgency
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
Arab Tyrant Manual is now a part of @kulna_co, a new digital media platform of @Kawaakibi, discussing Systems Change and Collective Liberation!
Listen to our first episode here, feat @iyad_elbaghdadi , @gatnash & @khalidalbaih
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
Earlier this week, we launched @kulna_co - our new independent media platform for systems change and collective liberation. It builds on years of activism and research in our organisation, across power analysis, global change, geopolitics, disinformation, healing, and art.
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Watch the full episode here:
youtube.com/watch?v=T36AejSv…
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How can we view what's happening in Sudan from the Prism of System Change and Collective Liberation? Watch our First HTL Podcast with @khalidalbaih & @iyad_elbaghdadi on our YouTube Channel Now.
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Subscribe to our YouTube channel here!
youtube.com/watch?v=9GwJmCSB…
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Dear early followers of Kulna. We are just letting you know we are still here, and we will be launching very soon!
The buildup to this launch wasn't easy, as our team member, Muhammad Saad @hafizsaadriaz , was abducted in the middle of it.
Silence has not protected our colleague, journalist and researcher @hafizsaadriaz.
Months after being granted bail, his case remains open, his devices have yet to be presented in court, his bank account remains frozen, and the threats continue.
Journalism is not a crime.
Silence has not protected our colleague @hafizsaadriaz, journalist and researcher.
He was granted bail in May, but his case is still open, his seized devices have never been shown in court, his bank account still frozen, and the threats haven’t stopped
@pressfreedom
@amnesty
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
What if ending #FGM wasn't a standalone programme, but part of every essential service? Ending FGM is more effective when it's integrated into health, education, sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence, and social services.Integration makes #FGM prevention and response more relevant, and sustainable.
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
What does it really take to end FGM?
Our latest learning synthesis brings together evidence, lived experiences, and programme insights to identify the approaches that are making a measurable difference in efforts to end FGM.
Drawing on the TGG-ALM programme's internal reflections, global goods and learning briefs, and the endline evaluation by @aphrc and @Pop_Council, this synthesis highlights practical lessons that can inform policy, programming, advocacy, and investment.
As we share these insights, we invite partners, practitioners, and communities to reflect on what works, and how we can accelerate collective action to end #FGM for good.
Dr Leyla Sirad Hussein Gikandi OBE retweeted
What does justice look like for #FGM survivors? And who gets to define it?
Join us for a powerful webinar where the women fighting to #EndFGM unpack the gains of strategic litigation, cross-regional organising and survivor-led testimony and explore what remains to be done.
Date: 30th June, 2026
Time: 12:00 noon GMT/UTC
3PM EAT
Registration link: bit.ly/44qahMwt
Interpretation languages: French
#EndFGM #SurvivorJusticeisMovementPower
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This book, AMAZING GRACE: The Story of Canon Awori, the father of H.E. @moodyawori and maternal grandfather of Prof. @JudiWakhungu is out, and available for immediate download at hekima.store/sonofthenile by LO - "LO" means soil/earth in Dholuo and @SuzannaOwiyo has a song... – at Sondu, Kenya
