Ibtisam Ahmed

The transphobic and queerphobic currents in Bangladesh are straight out of the West’s playbook, whereas protecting the rights of these minorities is historically a Bangladeshi phenomenon.

If Bangladesh is to avoid mistakes of the past and deliver on the utopian promises of the protests, correctly identifying Hasina as an autocrat rather than a fascist is an important first step.

Bangladeshis kept being told that our land was the greenest and our leaders were the best, but it was a great nationalist lie.