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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

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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

How Cars Changed America

The Cross Bronx Expressway, 2021. Image Source: Eyewitness ABC 7 NY, WABC-TV. The automobile is a wonderful invention--it really is. It grants the user a level of freedom unprecedented in human history, and, incidentally, equally unprecedented opportunity. With a car, you can travel a thousand miles in 24 hours without adhering to any set plan or schedule. Car ownership allows an individual to live wherever he or she wants irrespective of commute distance or access to public transportation. It is little wonder that much of American planning during the Inter-War and Cold War decades centered on maximizing the automobile's strengths and minimizing its shortcomings. Its strengths, speed and independence, are maximized through the proliferation of faster roadways and more of them. Its shortcomings, large size and fuel cost, are minimized through the proliferation of parking lots and gasoline subsidies. Consequently, the automobile is King in America, as is the motorist, and it is t

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