Know Which is Which: Toxic Feminism vs Self-Respect
In today’s day and age, women are slowly learning to be confident, to set boundaries – instead of compromising all the time – not settling for less and being vocal about what they’re not okay with. As is with anything…
Finding A Sense Of Belonging In America As A Bangladeshi
For Uncle T My master's program is related to education. A lot of what I study and its practices emphasize creating a sense of belonging in the classroom so that students, regardless of their culture, home situation, residential status, trauma,…
Putting Love First Doesn’t Always Work
We’ve all been there. At some point of our lives, we’ve given into love, or what felt like love at the time. Be that skipping a work meeting because your partner had that one day off, creating a fiasco at…
Fighting The Superbugs: Awareness & Precautions Against Antimicrobial Resistance
Growing up, I suffered from frequent colds and flu, requiring on-and-off visits to a nearby Child Specialist. Almost every time, the doctor prescribed me an antibiotic named Azithromcin-500 mg twice a day for three days; if I did not recover,…
The Added Challenges of Women in Engineering
Women in Bangladesh go through multiple hardships while building a career because of the remnants of a back-dated ideology. Although many families invest in their daughters' education; the conservative and patriarchal viewpoints often restrict them from building a career in…
What We Get Wrong about Male-Female Friendships
This article was co-written by Fariha Lamisa and Feda Al Hossain In Bangladesh, friendship between a man and a woman is often shunned by society. Oftentimes, these types of friendships would either be scorned for its perceived lack of morals…
Death of A Star
I had this painfully short-lived desire to be a singer when I was young. My father even had this sweet lady come to our house and give me music lessons for a few months. As time went by, my teacher…
Sexual Repression in Bangladeshi Men: A Precursor to Violence
Warning: Mentions of rape and sexual abuse A few days ago, I was on a public bus, which was extremely crowded as usual. I was standing, and a middle-aged man stood beside me. After a while, I felt that the…
Is Enough Being Done to Improve Gynecological Healthcare in Bangladesh?
“I think something’s wrong with my vagina.” How many of us have ever tried to have conversations about vagina or vaginal health? Imagine yourself in a brown setting. If you are a woman who happened to use the “v-word,” you…
Why is it so hard to get mental health treatment in Bangladesh?
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