Category: BDFA Blog
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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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Daily Star, Have You Forgotten Preeti Urang?
by R. Rahman Bangladesh forgets its most vulnerable far too easily, and nothing proves this more clearly than how quickly the country stopped talking about 15-year-old Preeti Urang. Preeti, an Indigenous tea garden child worker, died in February 2024 inside the home of The Daily Star’s then–executive editor, Syed Ashfaqul Haque, and his wife, Tania…
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