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Living on Edge: How Gender and Anxiety Shape My Experience of Public Space

Posted by Baileigh Zimmerman on November 18, 2024

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No Place to Call Home: Spatial Injustice and the Bihari Community in Bangladesh

Posted by Bodrul Islam on November 13, 2024

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Girls at Dhabas

Posted by Risa Whitson on November 12, 2024

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Longing and Belonging: The Mountains I Can’t Climb

Posted by Rida on November 10, 2024

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Public Spaces: Cultural Contrast Between the United States and Bangladesh

Posted by Md Shakhawat Hossain on November 06, 2024

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From Gai (Cow) Jatra (Festival) to LGBTQ Festival: Searching and Challenging Identities

image source: iStock "Festival of Cows," commonly known as Gai Jatra is a traditional festival celebrated in Nepal, particularly among the Newar community in the capital city and nearby areas. It usually occurs in August or September, following the lunar calendar. This festival started in Nepal during the Malla dynasty and has significant historical and spiritual value. The celebration is based on the concept that a cow guides the spirits of the dead to paradise. Therefore, families who have lost loved ones in the previous year lead a parade through the streets, often with a decorated cow, to honor the dead and ensure their peaceful departure into the afterlife. The purpose of this festival was also to celebrate death and understand the essence of life. , In recent times, this festival has been a celebration of joy and laughter, allowing a space for satire, comedy, and parody to challenge traditional societal norms. The use of comedy and sarcasm is one of Gai Jatra's m

Beyond Boundaries: My Journey from Bangladesh to USA

My journey from Bangladesh to the United States was not just a long journey of 40 hours. It was an exploration of identity, culture and the concept of “home.” As a girl, growing up in a Bangladeshi Muslim family, home was an idea that combined cultural norms, expectations from family, and the varied roles and restrictions that were imposed to women. From a feminist perspective, this journey has revealed the layers of navigating multiple identities and the fluidity of home as a space. In traditional Bangladesh, women are expected to play the role as a caretaker, good mother, obedient daughter, and potential wife at home. Here, the concept of “home” for woman often means numerous obligation and restriction. Home is not just a physical place here but also a symbolic space where one’s acts, behavior, freedom, and even dreams are controlled. This idea of women’s roles imposed by culture and society was pointed by Whitson (2017) in Spaces of Culture and Identity Production: Home, Consumption

Empty Spaces

Last week I had a chance to float the Green River through the Gates of Lodore and Split Mountain Canyons in Dinosaur National Monument. It’s a trip that has been on my list for a long time but only a small number of permits are issued to boaters via a lottery system and competition is fierce. When a company I work for offered me a spot on a trip, I jumped at the opportunity. I value my experiences in the wilderness above almost everything else in my life, but my perception of national parks as untouched, unpeopled spaces is based on a socially constructed idea of wilderness that is reinforced by the displacement of native peoples. In his book Wilderness in the American Mind, Roderic Nash discusses how American ideas of wilderness have shifted. Early European settlers failed to recognize that the American wilderness was land managed by Native Americans and saw it as a challenge to overcome. Christian belief systems supported the razzing of the wil

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