Category: Opinion
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Stop Blaming Queer Bangladeshis: HIV Is a Public Health Crisis, Not a Moral Failure
This year’s HIV data in Bangladesh has triggered not only public concern but also a disturbing resurgence of homophobic media narratives. As soon as the numbers were released, several news outlets rushed to publish sensationalist headlines declaring that “half of HIV patients are homosexual men,” that “students are becoming infected due to homosexuality,” and that…
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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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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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