Category: BDFA Blog
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When Male Rape Becomes Comedy
By Preetelata The viral clip of comedian K Zubayer joking about male rape has stirred justified anger, not because comedy cannot touch difficult subjects, but because of how carelessly it handled one of the most silenced forms of violence in Bangladesh. Male rape is already an under-acknowledged, under-reported, and deeply stigmatized reality. When the rare…
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Denim Day: Saying No to Victim Blaming
by Khadizatul Kubra [TRIGGER WARNING] Sexual assault—something we hear about every day, something that shows up on our social media feeds every time we scroll—and we just move past it. Every day, there is news of a woman or a child being assaulted. I don’t even want to use the obvious “r” word right now,…
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The Messy Debate of Consent, Harm, and How We Are Responding to Methila
by Preetelata The renewed conversation around Tangia Zaman Methila has exposed a truth Bangladesh often avoids: we do not know how to talk about harm when the person responsible does not fit our usual image of a perpetrator. Years ago, Methila filmed a man inside a bathroom without his consent. That is not mischief. That…
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