Another extremely cruel, dehumanizing and degrading aspect of Islamic slavery was the large-scale castration of male captives.... There was widespread castration of slaves in Bengal during Mughal Emperor Jahangir which…
A friend just sent me a video where a very ordinary looking guy, supposedly, an Imam is making statements that is what colonial powers do, a racist and supremacist statements.…
The female captives, in compliance with Quranic sanctions and prophet traditions, were used as sex slaves by the Muslim masters. Therefore, they did not only add to the growing Muslim…
Abu Sufiyan, one of Prophet’s fathers-in-law, learning of Muhammad’s approach, went in the darkness of night to meet Muhammad for persuading him not to attack the city. On the way,…
Not my New Year. De-colonization, like feminism, is a complete change in consciousness, and it took me a long time to decolonize. With feminism, I am still learning. It is…
Are you passionate about exploring the critical study of genocide, its causes, and its impacts on society? Sowaka Harshita Foundation presents "A Course on Genocide," a transformative program designed to…
This is my first blog in a series of blogs where I will start to talk about intergenerational trauma via historical loss that many communities face and apply it to…
In my last blog I talked about PTSD (Post traumatic Stress Syndrome), its causes and some of the symptoms. Together with it I also talked about intergenerational trauma. In this…
In my last blog I spoke of Narrative therapy for historical trauma. I will take a specific case, the case of Noakhali Hindu genocide that is slowly coming out. Here…
In Freud the center of all identities is gender identity and gender differentiation. For Freud all gender identities happen along what he terms as “castration complex”, which he later termed…
“One Tailor (Hindu) and his wife were brought from Baghmari. There were deep wound marks on the body of the man. He and his wife came in half dead. Two…
No amount of token representation or rallies will change anything, unless people's consciousness changes. Are we asking the following questions? 1. Why is there so much violence against women when…