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Feminism in 2021: The Ideology vs The Aesthetic


Feminism in 2021: The Ideology vs The Aesthetic
Illustration: NOOR US SAFA ANIK
Every year, during International Women s Day (IWD), lifestyle brands around the globe centre their marketing around women and their necessities. Popular brands here in Bangladesh are no different. Last year, we saw a brand of soap host a much-televised women s day campaign on March 8th. Their campaign featured models, bloggers, and female entrepreneurs.
The campaign was well shot and well presented, and ironically lacked the feminist spirit.
The women featured in the campaign all looked the same: conventionally fair, dressed in glamorous, non-functional attire. They all sit still, look pretty, speak gracefully and never do any heavy lifting. They all come from a place of privilege and do not speak their mind. As the video progresses, you come to realise that they re only there because a brand has a business to promote. ....

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Paul Ortiz: Learning civic engagement in the heartland of America


As the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, I have been taking University of Florida students to the Mississippi Delta every summer since 2008 to study the origins and legacies of the modern civil rights movement. Up until 2020 when the global pandemic put a temporary halt to our fieldwork students would pile into vans armed with digital audio and video recorders, interview guides and business-casual clothing appropriate for mid-July in the sweltering Delta heat.
After a 12-hour drive from Gainesville to one of several small towns located near the mighty Mississippi River, students would begin the process of getting acclimated to the region that historian James C. Cobb famously called “the most southern place on earth.” ....

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