Bangladesh Feminist Archives

Category: Thoughts

  • 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…

  • How Come Our Institutions Have Such Perverted Students?

    by Asef Abdullah Content Warning: This piece includes explicit sexual language and descriptions of sexual violence taken from public online sources. The recent Reddit exposé case of BUET got me thinking, what’s the fault in our upbringing, and how can students from such reputed universities be so perverted? As the BUET exposé case is currently…