Category: Special Collections
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Say His Name: Queer Activist Tonoy Also Killed on 25th April 2016
Written by Tanveer Anoy I’m angry at how people who speak endlessly about social justice suddenly go silent, or selective, when it actually matters. Two people were killed on the same day, yet over and over again, I see the same pattern: one name is remembered, circulated, made visible, while the other is sidelined, almost…
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Ten Years After: Remembering Xulhaz and Tonoy
On April 25, 2016, Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy were murdered in Dhaka in a targeted attack that marked a turning point for queer organizing in Bangladesh. Xulhaz, publisher and co-founder of Roopbaan (the country’s first LGBTQ+ magazine), and Tonoy, its general secretary, a cultural activist and organizer, were part of a small but…
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Thursday Nights with Xulhaz
Photography & Written by Raju Ahmmed Some people walk into your life so quietly that you never quite notice the moment they become irreplaceable. That was Xulhaz. From 2012, he was there. And then, on April 24th, 2016, he wasn’t. I honestly cannot tell you the exact moment that Xulhaz stopped being just a friend…