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Culture · Bangladesh
Rubaiyat Hossain Takes Bangladesh’s Beauty Rules Into Horror—and Toronto Audiences Are Responding
The Difficult Bride is using psychological horror, folklore and the body to examine marriage, beauty standards and women’s freedom. After Venice, Rubaiyat Hossain’s latest film has sold out its Toronto screenings and is now moving on to London and Chicago.
Voices · Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Women Should Not Need a Deadline for Marriage
A new first-person essay from a Bangladeshi university teacher describes the relentless questions unmarried women face about age, appearance and marriage. The deeper issue is not whether women marry—it is why society continues to treat marriage as a deadline against which a woman’s life is measured.