Elora Halim Chowdhury

Elora Halim Chowdhury is professor and chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston, US. She is the author of Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminisms, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh (2022).

Beyond martyrs and victims: Who is worthy of human rights?

The brutal killings by the Israeli state that we are witnessing in Gaza is an ongoing manifestation of selective humanity.

Gendered violence: The paradox of the routine and the spectacular

November 25, 2020 marked the beginning of the UN Women’s worldwide annual 16 days of activism against gender violence.

Alternative narratives of trauma

Nayanika Mookherjee's The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 is a much awaited

December 9, 2023