Oct 22, 2021
UNPACKING/UNDERSTANDING TWO-FINGER TEST AND RAPE VICTIMS IN BANGLADESHI CONTEXT
Professor Fatama Sultana Suvra (Jagannath University) will join us to engage in a critical conversation about our social attitude and sociopolitical realities of rape victims in Bangladesh. Police report shows that nearly 3,300 people are raped every year in Bangladesh. Let's not forget: there is a difference between the crimes committed and reported. Those who seek justice must run a medico-legal gauntlet at the hands of a society that places the stigma of rape on the victim rather than the perpetrator. I am looking forward to our conversation with Professor Suvra.
Oct 20, 2021
Understanding Communal Violence Against Hindu Communities in Bangladesh
Understanding Communal Violence Against Hindu Communities in Bangladesh
Sep 30, 2021
UNDERSTANDING MISOGYNY THROUGH CYBERBULLYING AND UNCRITICAL NETIZENS AS SILENT BYSTANDERS
Ashna Habib Bhabna will join us on September 30, and we will discuss cyberbullying, online misogyny, and our netizens as silent bystanders in the Bangladeshi context. Join us and share your experience and insight about cyberbullying and online misogyny. Online misogyny and cyberbullying in the Bangladeshi context are under-researched. I am sharing some findings from studies relevant to this issue. According to the 2017 Amnesty International poll, 41% of women who had experienced online abuse or harassment reported feeling that their physical safety was threatened. A 2018 study at the City University of Dublin reports that between one-fifth and one-quarter of women who had experienced online abuse or harassment said it had included physical or sexual assault threats. Men are also victims of cyberbullying, but it portrays a very different reality from women's experiences. In 2017, a survey by the Pew Research Center in the United States revealed that, while men experience slightly higher levels than women of online harassment such as name-calling and physical threats, women are much more likely to experience severe types of gender-based or sexual harassment: 21% of women aged 18 to 29 reported being sexually harassed online, more than twice the percentage of men in the same age group (9%).
Oct 21, 2021
DICTION AND CONTRADICTION OF OUR THOUGHTS
Dilshana Parul will join us to share her thoughts on, perhaps, one of the strange and primordial human conditions: contradictions that live in our thoughts, guiding our lives and politics. We will think out loud about the terrains of our thoughts scratching on the surface of Bengali public discourse on October 21 at 9 PM Bangladesh time.