Editorial
Backlash against progressive and democratic values might feel alarmingly new in the West, but it’s not new to countries influenced by authoritarianism, religious extremism, and ethnonationalism.
Saudi Execution of Two Bangladeshis is about Systemic Violence, Not “Sin”
The execution of two Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia is unjust on humanitarian grounds. But Bangladesh’s meek response reveals their dependency on Saudi currency, brought into the country by Bangladeshi migrant workers who endure widespread abuse.
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Campuses: Gender Violence and the Search for Justice
Universities are imagined as spaces of learning and freedom, yet across Bangladesh students continue to report sexual harassment, violence, and institutional inaction. In the debut episode of AALAP: Women and Minorities, host Prapti Taposhi speaks with student activists Tasnim Yeasmin and Ritika on campus safety, accountability, and the search for justice.
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Carrying July Uprising: Trauma, Memory, and Healing
Episode 1 of Truth, Healing, and Reconciliation. Host Prapti opens the series with a conversation on carrying the July Uprising — trauma, memory, and the work of healing.
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Shuddhashar’s Statement on Generative AI
Like it or not, AI has a role in our lives and future. But we can choose how to use it, and whether we allow it to take over our independent thinking and creativity.
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Editorial
When we look in the mirror—regardless of our gender or color, the documents in our pocket or shoved in a sock drawer, the beloved in our bed or the absence beside us—do we see ourselves? Or do we see a reflection of the “other,” some version of what we imagine others see?
Secularisms: Global Perspectives
This webinar features a conversation with Rajeev Bhargava, Marieme Hélie-Lucas, and Tuğçe Kayaal on how secularism is practiced in different contexts and what lessons these various approaches offer plural societies and for promoting equal rights and dignity for all.
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Erotic Art & Fabulous Defiance: Reclaiming the Body through Art
This webinar brings together Tamar Ballard and Ibtisam Ahmed with moderator Afra Sampreety to explore how subversive art reclaims the body, desire, and selfhood in Black feminist and queer contexts. Discussing Black women’s music and queer catwalk, they center practices that do not seek permission or validation but instead boldly celebrate intimacy and pageantry. Together,
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Episode 2: Student Accounts of the 2024 Bangladesh Uprising
Bangladeshi students describe their visions for a democratic, pluralistic Bangladesh and rebuilding political culture after the July Uprising of 2024.
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Editorial
A quarter into the twenty-first century, global democracy is facing one of its most precarious moments in decades. Since the turn of the century, democracy appears to be in decline, even in nations that have long advocated for spreading democracy abroad. Capitalizing on anxieties over demographic change and inequality, leaders from the United States to
Bangladesh Must Protect Marginalised Communities
Bangladeshi authorities and the wider citizenry must deliver on the promise of a country that functions on the principles of egalitarianism and justice.
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