Category: Commentary
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Cis Women, Your Transphobia is Not Feminism
Cis women, trans people are so tired of your transphobia. This comes with genuine sadness, because the sheer amount of hatred and exclusion coming from cis women toward trans people, particularly trans women, is devastating. In Bangladesh, being a woman already means navigating patriarchy, heteropatriarchy, misogyny, harassment, violence and endless policing of bodies and choices.…
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Bangladesh’s Feminism is Still Trapped in the Gender Binary. We at BDFA Refuse to Be.
Feminism in Bangladesh is still too often reduced to a painfully narrow equation: men, women, equality. At other times, it becomes simply “women’s rights,” as though patriarchy begins and ends with discrimination against cisgender women. This framing is familiar. It is also insufficient. Patriarchy does not harm everyone in the same way. It operates through…
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When Jamaat’s Moral Police Get Caught, Privacy Suddenly Becomes a Right
The controversy surrounding Jamaat-e-Islami MP Gazi Nazrul Islam is not simply about a politician’s private life. Consensual intimacy between adults should not be treated as public entertainment, and the non-consensual recording or circulation of intimate footage is a serious violation. However, these principles cannot be used to prevent scrutiny of contradictory public claims, possible abuses…