About SiA Magazine
SiA Magazine began in 2009 as a light, "afropolitan" women's fashion, entertainment quarterly aimed at Sierra Leonean women in the diaspora. The New SiA and the Shabaka Stone Magazine is dedicated to celebrating and empowering today's generation of circumcised women and girls globally. SiA and The Shabaka Stone is also focused on raising awareness about the harmful impact of western financed anti-FGM campaigns and infringements on the basic human rights of circumcised women and girls around the world.
As fourth wave feminists, our team emphasizes intersectionality, understanding the multiple ways circumcised women are discriminated against, silenced and erased because of our race, ethnicity, culture, religion and views of the gendered body that do not neatly conform with Eurocentric patriarchal assumptions or the privileging of white women's bodies and historical experiences of sexual oppression.
We use the internet, social media, or digitalization to connect with each other and share our various challenges and triumphs. We embrace our African and/or Islamic heritage as well as contemporary culture, fashion and entertainment. But, importantly SiA and the Shabaka Stone exists to confront the intellectual underpinnings of social, political and legal injustices we face across Africa, Asia, Indonesia, Middle East, Latin America and the western diaspora.
