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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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MUCH SOUND AND FURY Post uprising toxic masculinity
by Mithila Mahfuz FOR the last two years, we have been witnessing the popular rise of a type of masculine identity which has rung alarm bells in feminist and women’s activist circles. This very rigid model of masculinity is seen proliferating in public spaces, including and especially social media. The faces of the ‘July boys’ have often promoted and embodied such masculinity. Right-wing groups are at one with it. We all know this type of man online or offline. Most of us fem
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WOMEN’S DAY AT REFUGEE CAMPS Cost of waiting
— New Age photo by Hasina Rahman MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day. And as I sat with that this morning — as a woman, as a humanitarian — I found I couldn’t separate my own reflection from the faces of the women and girls I see every day in the camps of Cox’s Bazar. Perhaps that is exactly as it should be. Because what does this day mean when you’re inside a shelter that was never meant to be permanent? What does it mean when you are eight years into displacement, nine
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