Bangladesh Feminist Archives

Category: Political & Personal

  • Heavy is the Head of Unheeding Hair

    by Rakkhoshee “Hair is everything.” Boy, was Fleabag onto something. Of all the things I could’ve been marked for, that’s what they chose. I didn’t expect an educational institution in this godforsaken country to mind anything substantial. I’m not that naïve. I’m just frustrated, I suppose, that this is what truly mattered to the administration,…

  • The Eastern Gaze

    by Mati’r Meye Much discussion surrounds the male gaze, and the white gaze, but these days I am cognizant of a growing eastern gaze that has not entered traditional scholarship; rising alongside the archetype of ‘the pick-me girl’ subscribing to male standards, are student immigrants of the west upholding whiteness to obtain a taste of…

  • When Two Identities Collide: Living as a Bisexual Hindu Woman in Bangladesh

    by Krishna  I am grateful for this opportunity to speak. Honestly, it is a hard thing to write or even talk about. But we gotta start somewhere. I am a bisexual woman and a practising Hindu. Well, these two weren’t a good match to put together, but I’ll gradually get into that. I am currently…