Did everything really come from nothing?
Mohammad Al Mamur, United Kingdom I. A Law Older Than the Nation Section 377 of the Penal Code, drafted by the British in 1860, survives in Bangladesh as the most persistent scar of colonial moral engineering. It criminalises “carnal intercourse against the order of nature,” a phrase so vague that it has become a net […]
Mohammad Al Mamur, United Kingdom I. Introduction – Silence, Stigma, and Survival In Bangladesh, queerness exists in the shadows. It is whispered about, denied, and punished by a society that often mistakes conformity for morality. Behind the bright façade of progress and democracy lies an unspoken truth: to live openly as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, […]