20 May 2025: One Year of the Bangladesh Feminist Archives
One year ago today, some angry feminists asked: Why is there still no space that documents the histories of Bangladesh’s intersectional feminist movements? Where are the stories of those who fought, organized, cared, failed, resisted, and kept going?
Out of that anger, grief, and urgency, the Bangladesh Feminist Archives was created, not as a polished institution but as a refusal; a refusal to let our movements be erased, to let our feminism be reduced to soundbites, stripped of its complexities, or forgotten altogether.
Now, a year later, the crisis is only sharper. Women, queer people, Indigenous and Dalit communities, garment workers, students, our struggles are met with surveillance, censorship, and violence and still, mainstream histories keep excluding us.
This is why we archive: People are actively trying to wipe out our feminism. Memory is resistance. We need to tell our stories, on our terms, before others rewrite them or bury them.
BFA is built from the ground up, with care and refusal, by and for feminists who know that survival itself is political. This archive is not just about the past, it’s about what we’re still fighting for.
We are here. We remember. We are not done.
If this archive speaks to you, stand with us, share it, build it, carry it forward.
-Bangladesh Feminist Archives Team
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