Borderlines (co-produced with CREA) is a seven-part video series documenting how feminists work, intervene, and connect the dots across the region to create knowledge in South Asia.
What is the imagination of indigenous communities in the nation state? Muktasree elaborates on what it means to be invisibilised or kept on the margins of national identities, the histories of erasure, and records the challenges of recognizing diversity within South Asian communities. She opens up questions of belonging that are critical not just to Bangladesh, but to the south asian region itself.
As a feminist activist, she takes us through her own journey of working with indigenous communities in terms of not only how the mainstream constructs them, but also how the community engages with the mainstream. Gender is an important site of learning and action for Muktasree; how gender-based violence gets articulated within indigenous groups; the difference in impact of gender on indigenous men and women; gender as part of the history of 1971 and the war of Liberation; how women’s leadership exists in spaces outside of the dominant record of national female icons.
As a young feminist in the region, Muktasree’s engagements with other feminists in South Asia are through solidarities, with a call to all feminist networks to place on top “for once” the demands of indigenous women in their charters and manifestos for rights, resources, and entitlements.
