Understanding the Backlash against Feminism
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Feminists are man-haters, Don’t argue Or they will kill you. Well, what? You want to replace the Feminists with Feminazis? After all, isn’t feminism about gender equality and not the endorsement of a reversed…
Religious Intolerance During Durga Puja and its Far-reaching Consequences
What makes Bangladesh (or Bengal as a whole) such an amazing place is the history of coherence among its people. Even after being ruled by numerous emperors, rules of different religions, and colonial attempts to divide people based on religion,…
Rage against Rape: A Belated #MeToo Outcry
Amidst the global health emergency centering around COVID-19, Bangladesh battles with a different emergency. During the pandemic, rape has filled the news. “It’s in the newspaper, on Facebook, every day,” commented a female student. “There’s no way not to look…
Floods and Hurricanes: How Recent Water Related Disasters are Rooted in Climate Change
The current state of the world is not what people envisioned 2020 to be. A failure to properly manage coronavirus has led to it continuing to ravage the world, even coming back as a second wave in some countries. Protests…
Understanding Marital Rape, and Why it Persists
Historically, rape has been conventionally described as non-consensual sexual intercourse with a female that is not the criminal’s wife. The notion of a woman irreversibly and unceasingly pledging her consent to sexual intercourse with a male through a marriage contract…
Protests in Portland Shift from a Struggle for Justice to One Against Federal Agents
Since the death of George Floyd in May, protests around the world erupted calling for justice and an end to systemic racism. People advocate for the police and government to be held accountable for their treatment and murdering of people…
The 10 Minute School Issue: Why Suppression of Content is Problematic
Religion is an integral part of our identity. However, it is not what everyone chooses to appoint as their identifier. Throughout our lives, we face a variety of experiences, and we choose for ourselves, which of these experiences should identify…
Why Feminism is Still Needed in Bangladesh
Ah, the great debacle of this century. Is Feminism still relevant today? seems to be the question of a disturbingly large number of people. Some even go so far as to ask “Has feminism gone too far?” Women complaining about…
The Nature of Racism (and Colorism) in Media, and Why They Need to be Addressed
The Black Lives Matter has been allowed to be more visible the past months. This is to say that the movement did not just suddenly appear. No, the need for black equality and reforming of the corrupt law enforcement system…
Why Black Lives Matter: Understanding the Movement and its Momentum
#BlackLivesMatter started off as a Twitter movement. African-Americans had been fed up of being shot down and denied the right to plead due to prejudice time and again. They have been denied the right to fair trials, the right to…
