The Downside of Corporate “Wokeism”
While most brands these days try to advocate for positive social changes, there are only a handful of institutions that have the potential to actually create a difference. Mass media and large corporations perpetuate this activism in the name of…
Sitakunda Explosions Raise Age-Old Questions about Accountability
On June 4, Saturday, at 9 pm, a fire broke out in Sitakunda’s container facility, located 25 miles from the Chittagong port. While firefighters were attempting to salvage the situation, the fire triggered multiple explosions around midnight. The explosions resulted…
A Brief History of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Trial, and How it Sheds Light on the Flip Side of the #MeToo Coin
Edward Scissorhands, Pirates of the Caribbean, Dark Shadows, Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, Sleepy Hollow – the list goes on. All these beloved movies have one thing in common: Johnny Depp. Known as a versatile…
How to Reach Beyond the Liberal Bubble in Bangladesh
A liberal bubble refers to the social isolation that an individual is confined to because of certain socioeconomic features. Although a significant portion of the Bangladeshi population caters to that mindset, the concept of a liberal bubble is still quite…
What Will an Elon Musk-led Twitter Look Like?
Assume that you have been frequenting a sushi place for a few years. You do not like the management, the service, and so on. Nonetheless, you continue visiting for the sake of sushi. However, one day you wake up so…
The Insidious Discrimination of Fast Fashion
This is the second article in a series about fast fashion. Please check out the first article here. The fashion industry is a prime example of a lucrative industry tainted by prejudice and intertwined with racism. In 2017, consumers spent…
Everyone Has Their Place: Examining Snowpiercer’s Ideology
Bong Joon-ho’s film Snowpiercer based on Jacques Lob’s post-apocalyptic French novel, Le Transperceneige follows Curtis Everett, a lower-class man or a “tailee” leading a revolution against an unyielding ideological regime. The year is 2031, 19 years after a man-made chemical…
Why Pronouns Matter
A couple of days back I was talking to a friend’s biological younger sister, who now identifies as my friend’s younger brother. When the topic of gender identity and pronouns came up, a lot of sensitive issues latched onto the…
Unfair Beauty Standards: Why Dark-Shaming is a By-Product of Colonialism
“Ugly” is a term that we use to refer to something unpleasant or repulsive. At some point in your life, you have felt that your worth is low because you are “ugly”. News flash! You have probably internalized the deep-rooted…
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: How the War Came to Pass
This article was co-written by Asif Mahmud Sohan and Nusrat Jahan Irina. "We bury our dead. They were collected on the streets by a funeral service. The priest who died in the Purple Park is buried by a priest of…
