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Internationales Festival für textiles Handwerk, textile Kunst und Design: Bozen vom 15. bis 17.03.2024

Das Festival präsentiert textile Handwerkskunst, erstklassiges Kunsthandwerk und innovatives Design. Konzipiert und organisiert von der Europäischen Textilakademie zeigt das Festival im Kontext von Kultur und Natur hochwertige und innovative Produkte. Auf Kundenbedürfnisse zugeschnitten, selektiv und aufmerksam im Detail, ist das Festival die Anlaufstelle für Besucher, die sich in einem…

[archiveofliterature]

that one line about ramy's bangla being rudimentary made me absolutely sob (i'm bengali) and i wanna talk about why

there's so much to it both contextually with ramy's character as well as historically. contextually because ramy is fluent in 6 languages, an insane number of languages for one person but none of which are his mother tongue. he's described as a performer, one who knows he can't blend in so instead he stands out as a means to escape as much of the racism as he can. he gets lost in it that he almost forgets who he is; this is reflected in his language ability too – he gets so lost in his linguistic academics he just barely remembers the native language of his home place that he adores.

and honestly, you can't even really blame ramy for it at all when it was induced. it's the british who saw urdu, arabic and persian as more valuable than bangla, it's the british that make ramy put on this act so he can literally stay alive. and when you know the historical relevancies between urdu and bangla, it hurts so much that ramy was forced to forget bangla

very brief history context: after the partition, where british india was split into india, pakistan and east pakistan (now bangladesh) bangla was seen as inferior to urdu due to its hindu connections. bengalis experienced so much shit because of this (and bengali muslims are still dealing with the internalised cultural racism today honestly). pakistanis tried to make the official language urdu, even though literally everyone in east pakistan were bengali and spoke bangla, so bengalis fought back against it. we still celebrate that day today (feb 21)

so to have ramy be in this position in the 1830s where urdu was seen as superior to bangla, especially when ramy is a bengali muslim, is just extremely accurate?? and maybe it's bc we don't have much western literature where we talk about this but it's just so nice to have it acknowledged

the bangla language movement didn't happen until around the 1950s, over a century after babel's timeline, but the seeds are always there. while i do think it comes with both this islamic superiority tendency a lot of asians have (arabs i'm looking at you) and britian's imperialistic racism, i just love how it all makes sense

[fandomtrashbag]

I am aware this isn't a Destiel meme but the shitty memes grab enough attention and that's all I need. It's been a long day.

Hi! It's trashbag again. I've got a migraine but I'll power through with a more detailed summary about the Job Quota Protests in Bangladesh.

Currently Bangladesh has 56% quota allocated for govt jobs. 30% of this is for the descendants (children/grandchildren) of freedom fighters. In comparison, ethnic minorities have 5% and the disabled have 1%. It's nearly impossible to get into the govt jobs without inside connections due to rampant corruption and nepotism.

Students have protested for this before, back in 2018. It was bad, university students got tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets.

July 1st the public universities began the protests for the job quota reform again. Coincidentally this also coincided with public university faculty going on strike because of the Prottoy Pension Scheme, which does not provide enough of a financial safety net and also takes a significant chunk out of the faculties' income. So, students did not have any classes to worry about when they went to the streets.

July 14, PM of the country let us just call her Granny because I don't want to raise red flags on my blog. Granny came back from a visit to China, and of all the statements she gave, one said "if there is no quota for the freedom fighters, who will there be quota for? The Rajakars?"

For context, Rajakars were the paramilitary force that were against the independence of Bangladesh. They did their best to thwart liberation. They're national traitors. They've done concentration camps, genocide, murder of intellectuals, rape, torture.

So, the leader of the nation just called us the local equivalent of a Nazi for demanding to lower the freedom fighter quota. She did not want more merit based people working in the government, which as a leader of a nation is absolutely wild to me.

There was a considerable amount of outrage. Students of Dhaka University (DU) who have been protesting since July 1, took the streets at midnight to chant slogans. The chants lose a lot of weight in translation, but they're essentially calling themselves Rajakars (ironically) for wanting equality.

July 15. We've had student protests erupt around the country. The ruling party sent their student wing, BCL, to suppress. Students occupied the dormitory halls and barricaded. People were beaten and attacked in broad daylight. Rajshahi University (RU) had a raid attempt by BCL at 11PM. Jahangirnagar University (JU) had an attack at 3AM.

July 16. Nationwide protests surge. Private Universities - BRAC, NSU, AIUB, IUB, UIU and so on took to the streets and occupied the roads. There's been blockades. The police got involved today, there was an attack on Primeasia University. The first martyr for the movement, Abu Sayed, 25, died by police gunfire. The video of his murder has been all over Facebook. BCL brought in reinforcements. RU had arson. There was open gunfire in DU.

Come evening, there's been a massive misinformation campaign ongoing. There is fear being incited wherever you look. The latest was 27 rapes at Dhaka University, proven false. The main source of communication is Facebook, and they've slowed that right down. There's now confusion on if there will be protests tomorrow. False information that tomorrow's protests were cancelled on the occasion of Ashura spread too far.

Local media isn't reporting shit. Al Jazeera, AP, Reuters, the diplomat have but there needs to be more.

6 officially dead. One is a highschooler.

At least 200 injured. Real numbers are close to 400.

All hope is not lost - 5 DU halls have pledged to ban student politics. But there is a lot left to be done. Please boost this before we spiral into a much worse situation.

[depressedmonster99]

And again India flooded Bangladesh. The horror people facing in the river areas are unimaginable. Thinking about the people, the animals. It will literally drown them. Maybe it already has I don't know. Don't know what will happen if the dams aren't closed. You don't need enemies when you have friends like India. Being such a small country, rarely people knows what we go through by India. Please get informed about the situation and help put pressure on India about this decades old dam issue. India does this every year. They close their dam during summer (which dries out our rivers) and open it in the rainy season to flood Bangladesh.

I am sorry for sharing bleak news with you all. I know how disturbed everyone gets by these. Forgive me.

May we all find peace. And may Allah send us a miracle. In Sha Allah. Ameen.

[leviraaaaaa]

THEYRE CHANTING

Sheikh hasina neme jao

Amder vaider firiye dao

VAI

I NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN OUR AREA

BRO

Brooooo

THE PROTEST ARE GETTING TO THE PPL AROUND US

THAT IS A POLICE AREA

Like okhanei tara THAKE

VAI VAI VAIIII

ORA NAKI JOIN KORBE

WE’RE WINNING

EVERYONE IS GETTING MORE AND MORE ALERT

EK DOFA EK DABI HASINA TUI NEME JABI! YESSS!! AWAAZ UTHAA BITCHESS. SCREAM OUT THE FUCKING WORDS. Honestly I feel you. I live in a residential area and it's VERY safe and VERY quiet. It's pretty detached from the main town (where the protest actually happens) so we barely hear anything. BUT YESTERDAY I SAW A TINY GROUP OF PEOPLE (10-12) DOING A MICHIL AND THEY WERE CHANTING (Jegeche re jegeche! Chatroshomaj jegeche!) AND I WAS SO PROUD AND SO EXCITED LIKE YEAHHHH GO GUYS. I couldn't join them cause it was like 7 pm but I clapped along with their chants AND BRO THEY WERE EQUALLY EXCITED TO SEE ME HYPING THEM UP THEY WERE LIKE "WOAHHH DEKH DEKH OI MEYETAO AMADER DOLE" AND I WAS LIKE YESS AMI DEF TOMADER DOLE. It was the first time I saw any shred of the protest with my own eyes and it was really wholesome 😭 I felt like wow. Maybe we're gonna win after all. ALSO WAIT YOU MEAN THE POLICE WOULD JOIN OUR SIDE??? THIS IS GREAT YOU JUST MADE MY DAY DONT GIVE UP PEOPLE. WE'RE GONNA GET THROUGH THIS. WE'RE GONNA WIN.

Spread the word!!

[maria-eve-falcon]

the arrest, the killings don't stop

'Shaheed minar was created for 7 student martyrs, what for thousands killed?'

[arctic-hands]

rip in peace calvin klein plain white all cotton mens t-shirts I got as a gift like 8 years ago that are super comfy and just the right thickness and are only just now starting to become threadbare and stained but I am not paying thirty-five dollars for 3 new plain white tees that were probably also made in the same factory as the 6 pack of hanes cotton plain white tees I bought by overseas laborers for slave wages

[kurapikaschai]

so tired I hate retail so bad

[magicfeatherspecialist]

My dumbass watching "how cricket works" videos to support Bangladesh's team tomorrow like

[ghostfag]

the dhaka muslin post also is making me have thoughts. like, the west has such a different relationship to mending/creating their own clothes. it feels a lot more commonplace back in bd to at least have some degree of idea where your clothes come from. like yeah, some nice salwars and stuff are indian or pakistani import but the house clothes you bought at like, new market are all from the garments factories that send stuff overseas, etc, you can get stuff custom or fixed/altered a lot easier because there's a tailor on every street, that sort of deal. it feels like we're really far removed here-- because we kind of are and its an insane privilege that im not completely sure most people grasp the weight of.

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[earthleave]

1. The journey to independence was paved with sacrifice and courage. We honor those who fought valiantly for our freedom. Their blood nourished the roots of our nation. 🇺🇸✊

[hauntingblue]

Isn't it so maddening that most people can only afford badly made products that hurt the environment and the workers that made it because they can't buy well made things that do none of that but then rich people buy things that are badly made and hurt workers and the environment anyways but those things are actually expensive