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HERSTORY Who gets to author Bangladesh’s transition?
— New Age/ Sony Ramani by Tina Nandi TODAY, as Bangladesh joins the world in observing International Women’s Day, this Women’s Day arrives in the shadow of July 2024 — a political rupture whose meaning, authorship, and outcomes are still being negotiated. Political transitions are often commemorated as moments of progress, yet they also expose how fragile and contingent women’s gains remain. In Bangladesh, women’s revolutionary labour has repeatedly been made hyper-visible
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ON WOMEN’S DAY Trust the Body That Saved You
by Myat Moe Khaing ‘WHY didn’t you just move his hand away?’ my friend asks. I stare, my mind blank. I want to answer, but I can’t. Seriously, why didn’t I just move it? Or shout? As I search for the reason, a lump rises in my throat. I hear the care in my friend’s voice, but my mind drifts to the moment I froze. I am reliving the violation, the humiliation! For a long time I felt betrayed by my own body. How could it abandon me during a very vulnerable moment? My body, whic
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