We are honored to present Episode 22 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 Nirnoy H. Islam, an educator, organizer, and movement practitioner whose work bridges feminist pedagogy, queer and trans politics, ethics, and community-based care in Bangladesh.
Nirnoy is a Lecturer at BRAC University, where he teaches courses such as Ethics and Culture and Narratives of Truth and Lies, and has been actively rethinking pedagogy in times of crisis through trauma-informed approaches, project-based learning, and collective classroom practices. Beyond the university, his work spans feminist and queer study circles, mediation and care work, youth organizing, and community dialogue spaces that center affect, consent, responsibility, and solidarity.
His engagements across movements and learning spaces foreground care as political labor, explore how narratives shape political belonging, and attend to the emotional and ethical dimensions of organizing. From facilitating team-building and healing spaces to participating in queer and trans movement initiatives and emergency solidarity work, Nirnoy’s practice emphasizes the relational work that sustains movements beyond moments of visibility.
Topics Discussed:
-Early intellectual and political formation
-Ethics, pedagogy, and teaching in times of crisis
-Trauma-informed and project-based learning
-Care, affect, and mediation as political labor
-Queer, trans, and feminist organizing practices
-Narrative-building and counter-narratives in movements
-Solidarities across movements, generations, and communities
About the Project:
The Bangladesh Feminist Oral History Project is a living archive of interviews with Bangladeshi feminists, activists, artists, organizers, and scholars, whose stories offer insight, courage, and memory across generations.
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