Category: BDFA Blog
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Good Enough for the World, But Not for Home: What It Means to Be a Transgender Model in Bangladesh’s Fashion Industry
Written by Triaana Nayantara Hafiz People in Bangladesh’s fashion industry often tell me that I look like an international model, usually as a compliment, sometimes with genuine admiration and sometimes with a strange kind of sympathy. But after hearing it repeatedly for the last three years, I have started wondering whether it is really a…
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Remembering Otherwise: Women’s Stories and the Politics of Knowledge
by Shamnaz Arifin Mim Whose lives become part of history? Whose stories are written down, preserved, and returned to by future generations? And whose experiences disappear because no one thought they were important enough to document? These questions have stayed with me throughout my years as a researcher. Across Bangladesh, women carry stories about work,…
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Football, Patriarchy, and the Cost of Masculinity in Bangladesh
by Tasmim Jahan Neeha On 13 July, just a week before the FIFA Men’s World Cup final, The Daily Star reported that at least 11 people had died in World Cup-related violence during this year’s FIFA World Cup. While some were stabbed or otherwise fatally injured, a few died by electrocution. There are also unconfirmed…