Press Interviews
Revisiting the Narsingdi assault
The Daily Star, May 2022 — Read the full piece
An interview about the week I organized a visit to Narsingdi station with twenty volunteers from Meye Network, after a young woman was assaulted there for her clothing. I talk about why we treated it as a quiet reclaiming of public space rather than a protest, and why I see patriarchy, not gender, as the real constraint on what anyone can wear.
Building gender-focused knowledge through storytelling
The Daily Star, April 2021 — Read the full piece
A profile written when I was named a 2021 Acumen Fellow, tracing how a discriminatory moment in my engineering career led me to start Meye Network in 2011. It covers how the network grew into projects like Shondhi, Rangtaa, and OGNIE, and why I believe our lived experiences are the foundation for the change we’re working toward.
I aim to create gender-focused knowledge and services through storytelling and design thinking here
Dhaka Tribune, March 2021) — Read the full piece
An International Women’s Day interview in which I walk through my path from engineering at BUET to founding Meye, and later to studying foresight design at OCAD University. I talk about Meye’s different wings and end with the advice I’d give to women here: have the audacity to be called a bad girl.
Audio & Video
Barta Podcast·March 2025
The first episode of Barta, a podcast on technology, digitization, internet society, and gender justice. I talk with Durdana Farid about my work at the intersection of technology and gender, with Parsa Sanjana Sajid adding perspective.
Episode 5 — Bangladesh Feminist Oral History Project
Bangladesh Feminist Archives·March 2025
A conversation for an archive documenting the voices of Bangladeshi feminists. I talk through my path into activism, the evolution of Meye Network, design thinking for inclusive futures, and reflections on intersectionality and movement-building.
Awaz-e-Haqiqat: On Moral Policing and Women’s Dress
Awaz-e-Haqiqat·December 2025
A discussion on the rules and moral standards often placed on what women wear, and whether such policing has any place in the 21st century.
Power Woman — Colours FM 101.6
Colours FM 101.6·March 2016
On the regular show Power Woman, an early conversation about my life, work, and the founding of Meye.
অন্যপক্ষ, DBC News·January 2022
A New Year discussion alongside microbiologist Senjuti Saha, hosted by Ishrat Jahan Urmi.
অস্বীকৃত প্রেম এবং নারীর সুরক্ষা
অন্যপক্ষ, DBC News·March 2024
On unacknowledged relationships and women’s safety, with Jobaida Nasreen, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dhaka University.
মেন্সপ্লেইনিং কী এবং তার প্রভাব কী?
অন্যপক্ষ, DBC News·June 2024
A discussion on mansplaining and its effects, alongside writer and gender expert Nishat Sultana.
অন্যপক্ষ, DBC News·April 2025
A discussion on sex obtained under false promises of marriage, with Barrister Sabrina Zerin.
Talks, Lectures & Workshops Foresight & Design
On futures thinking, design education, and co-designing for inclusion.
Meet Strategic Foresight and Innovation student Trishia Nashtaran
OCAD University·February 2019
A short feature for OCAD University’s Master of Design in Strategic Foresight and Innovation programme, on what brought me to the course.
Explanation of Causal Layered Analysis | The Futures Cone | Futurists
Gurukul Online Learning Network·July 2020
A teaching session on Causal Layered Analysis and the Futures Cone, two core tools in foresight practice.
Co-Designing Inclusive Futures
World School of Bangladesh / Canada Bangladesh Social Justice Action Research Alliance·May 2021
A talk unpacking how spaces and technologies are rarely designed with marginalized groups in mind, and what co-designing for inclusion could look like.
Art and Activism for Gender Justice
Connecting Citizens to Science — Backlash, Resistance and the Path to Gender Justice, Ep. 5·October 2025
On how art and creativity sustain resistance, solidarity, and joy in activism, with Ishrat Jahan (BRAC JPGSPH) and Nusaiba Sultana (Oroddho Foundation).
Series Khatun Presents
A two-part podcast on women’s safety in public transportation.
Khatun Presents, Ep. 3, Part 1 — Public Transportation for Women
Khatun·May 2026
On whether public transport in Bangladesh is truly safe for women, and the everyday risks they navigate on buses, trains, and beyond.
Khatun Presents, Ep. 3, Part 2 — Public Transportation for Women and Their Security
Khatun·June 2026
Part two asks whether momentary awareness is enough, or whether lasting safety requires deeper social and structural change.