*This article of mine is published in Bangla in The Daily Ittefaq.* When it comes to the issue of violence against women and girls in Bangladesh, the reality is an ugly one. Despite Bangladesh’s strides on the international stage as a “development star” and a favorite when it comes to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable […]
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If you feel like you are having political deja vu with the Republicans going after Planned Parenthood yet again, you are forgiven. This week as Planned Parenthood President, Cecile Richards testified on Capitol Hill against the heavily edited tapes against her organization and fetal tissue donation, once against the GOP called for the government to
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After four years of the Syrian war, the world finally woke up to the region’s refugee crisis when the body of three year old, Aylan Kurdi washed upon the shores of Bodrum, Turkey. Just two years ago, we attended a beautiful long weekend in the resort town when one of my closest friends from college
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Talk about coming full circle. Three years ago Al-Jazeera English (AJE) took myself & AnushaysPoint.com on air by inviting me to be a guest on their social media driven show, The Stream. The show was really revolutionary and pioneering for its time, giving viewers a forum using social media. My two appearances, the first just
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After its summer hiatus, PBS’ To The Contrary returned with a bang. On Friday, my fellow To The Contrary panelists and I, with our legendary host, Bonnie Erbe, tackled sexual assault on campus, Donald Trump, immigration and Hillary Clinton’s stance on women’s rights. My stipulation always focuses on identifying rape culture, first and foremost. Most
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*This post of mine was also published in The New York Times/ Women in the World.* The sexism that plagues women in the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is no secret. The most recent reminder came from Nobel Prize winning scientist Tim Hunt, whose comments about women being a distraction in
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Technically, it is not even Mother’s Day in the US yet, but this year my gift arrived early all courtesy of The New York Times/Women in the World. We get so caught up in flowers and chocolate, but the real gift for mothers, on this day to celebrate us, is really having ourselves and our
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I managed to make a quick trip back to the motherland, Bangladesh last month to visit family. It’s always a shock to the system to go back to where I come from and then zoom back into Washington life, but the perspective I gain is invaluable. One of the best things I managed to do
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Finally going full-time with my writing two years ago also gave me control over one of my favorite aspects about my work- meeting passionate, driven young women across the country. This year, I was honored to be invited to Oklahoma State University (OSU) to speak about women’s rights as human rights. In addition to being one
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Anybody that knows me, knows I am a huge fan of my alma mater, the University of Virginia. Not only is it one of the best academic institutions nationally and internationally, my college days were instrumental in making me the person I am today. As an English Literature major, with a minor in Asian history, my
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