Bangladesh Feminist Archives

Category: Thoughts

  • We Have Been Deceived by the National Citizen Party

    by Muntasir Rahman  I am Md. Muntasir Rahman, an activist. My activism primarily focuses on gender and sexual minorities; alongside this, I have long worked on women’s rights, minority rights, and broader human rights issues. On July 15, 2024, while gathering news for a foreign newspaper, I began searching for movement coordinators and contacted them…

  • 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,…

  • 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…