We are honored to present Episode 18 of the Bangladesh Feminist Oral History Project, an initiative of the Bangladesh Feminist Archives dedicated to documenting the voices, struggles, and legacies of Bangladeshi feminists across generations.
In this episode, we speak with Sushmita S. Preetha, a feminist journalist, researcher, editor, and movement strategist whose work spans more than 15 years across media, labor rights, gender justice, and grassroots organizing. Sushmita has shaped national conversations on violence, inequality, democracy, and the lived realities of working-class women — consistently pushing for truth, accountability, and ethical storytelling.
She is currently the Associate Coordinator at Nijera Kori, working closely with landless women’s groups and grassroots organizers to strengthen feminist popular education and collective mobilization efforts. Previously, she served as Op-Ed Editor at The Daily Star, where she played a critical role in holding space for dissenting and marginalized voices during a period of escalating political repression. She also led editorial work at Star Weekend, served as Impact Editor, and helped develop narrative strategies that connected journalism with broader movements for justice.
Beyond journalism, Sushmita’s work includes labor investigations with the Worker Rights Consortium, research on garment workers and the global supply chain, analyses of gendered climate impacts, and contributions to the UN Women Beijing+30 review for Bangladesh. She has also been active in digital feminist campaigns and political storytelling, supporting social movements through poster design, messaging, and visual communication.
Through reflection, memory, and political clarity, Sushmita offers a grounded and powerful conversation on media, labor, ethics, resistance, and the emotional labor of feminist storytelling.
Topics Discussed
-Entering feminist politics and journalism
-Navigating censorship and shrinking civic space
-Gendered storytelling and editorial responsibility
-Labor justice, garment workers, and global supply chains
-Popular education and collective organizing at Nijera Kori
-Movement communication and political storytelling
-Ethics, grief, burnout, and accountability
-Imagining feminist narrative futures
About the Project
The Bangladesh Feminist Oral History Project is a living archive of interviews with Bangladeshi feminists, activists, organizers, researchers, and artists. These conversations preserve movement memory and create space for future generations to learn, remember, and build.
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