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Join us for the book launch of Noorjahan Bose’ s “Daughter of the Agunmukha” at Politics and Prose\, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW\, Washington DC\, on Sunday\, October 29\, 2023 at 3 pm. Noorjahan Bos e will be joined by local activists Sunu Chandy and Krittika Ghosh along w ith the book’s editor Monica Jahan Bose. Books will be available for purch ase and signing. We hope you will come and celebrate this major accomplish ment with Noorjahan\, who turned 85 earlier this year.
\nAlso please support our wonderful local bookstore\, which is hosting this official eve nt.
\nhttps://www.politics-pro se.com/noorjahan-bose
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How does a girl from a tiny Bangladeshi island end up readin g Tagore\, Marx\, and de Beauvoir and become a leading feminist campaigner ?
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This is th e riveting personal story of Noorjahan Bose\, born in 1938 in present-day Bangladesh to a farming family\, near the mouth of the ferocious River Agu nmukha—Fire Mouth River. Abused by male relatives and raised by a mother w ho was herself a child bride\, Noorjahan struggled for her education and a utonomy. Nurtured joyfully and creatively by her mother\, and mentored by local activists\, she found her way into the progressive movements that wo uld one day take her around the world. From the pain of partition to her h usband’s death when she was only 18 and pregnant\, to the devastating cycl ones threatening her family’s home and livelihood\, Noorjahan’s life has n ot been easy. Yet her courage shines through the pages of her memoir\, whe ther she is promoting Bangla language rights\, enduring Bangladesh’s liber ation war\, or marrying outside her family’s faith. This moving\, gripping book tells a powerful story of trauma\, loss\, resilience and empowerment .
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Translated by Rebecca Whittington and edited by Monica Jahan Bose.
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Bios:
\nNOO RJAHAN BOSE – Noorjahan Bose (she/her) is a feminist writer\, social worke r\, and activist\, living between the US and Bangladesh. She is the founde r of two US-based organizations to empower South Asian women\, ASHA (now A shiyanaa) and Samhati. She has a BA (Honors) in Bangla literature from Dha ka University and a Masters in Social Work from Catholic University in Was hington DC. She worked for many years as a social worker with refugees and the elderly at Catholic Charities\, with foster children for Prince Georg es Country\, MD\, and with ICU patients at DC General Hospital. She also f ounded the first Bangla School in the DC area\, running it out of her home for more than 10 years.
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Her first book\, the autobiography Agunmukhar Meye\, was publ ished in 2009 in Bangladesh\, after coming out in serial form in the Janak antha newspaper. The book became a bestseller\, and in 2009 was named one of the top 10 books in Bangladesh. In 2010\, Noorjahan received the Ananny a Prize for the book\, given to one woman writer every year in Bangladesh. The book has been the subject of numerous reviews and panel discussions i n Bangladesh and India. In 2011\, Ananda Publishers brought out a new edit ion of the book in India. In 2016\, the book won Bangladesh’s highest hono r\, the Bangla Academy Literary Award (autobiography). Noorjahan has also published several travelogues and other books. The translation “Daughter o f the Agunmukha” was published in 2023 by Hurst Publishers in the U.K. wit h distribution in the US by Oxford University Press.
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SUNU P. CHANDY- Sunu P. Chandy (s he/her) is currently a Senior Advisor with Democracy Forward\, supporting work across the teams to defend and build measures towards a more inclusiv e democracy and to disrupt the policies that oppose this goal. Sunu is als o the author of an award-winning collection of poems\, My Dear Comrades\, published by Regal House in 2023\, and has created a wide-ranging book tou r alongside other authors\, artists\, and activists. Sunu is also a proud member of the board of directors for the Transgender Law Center\, and was honored to be included as one the 2021 Queer Women of Washington.
\n< div class='x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s'>Before joining Democ racy Forward in September 2023\, she served as the Legal Director of the N ational Women’s Law Center for six years. She led the Center’s litigation efforts by expanding both the Center’s direct litigation and amicus brief program\, and there she coauthored several briefs to the U.S. Supreme Cour t. Sunu provided guidance for the Center’s policy positions towards greate r workplace justice\, and often led the Center’s LGBTQ+ rights policy work including through testifying before the U.S. Congress. Before NWLC\, Sunu led civil rights work through a range of government positions including a s the Deputy Director for the Civil Rights Division with the U.S. Departme nt of Health and Human Services\, as the General Counsel of the DC Office of Human Rights (OHR)\, and for 15 years as a federal litigator with the U .S. Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the New York District Offi ce. Sunu began her legal career as a law firm associate representing union s and individual workers in New York City at Gladstein\, Reif and Megginni ss\, LLP. Sunu is cited as a legal expert on workplace civil rights laws\, gender justice and LGBTQ+ rights including by The New York Times\, The Wa shington Post\, LA Times\, Ms. Magazine\, the Advocate\, CSPAN\, NBC\, ABC and NPR.\n
Su nu earned her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies/Women’s Studies from Earlha m College in Richmond\, Indiana\, her law degree from Northeastern Univers ity School of Law in Boston and later\, her MFA in Creative Writing (Poetr y) from Queens College/The City University of New York in 2013. Sunu’s cre ative work can also be found in publications including Asian American Lite rary Review\, Beltway Poetry Quarterly\, Poets on Adoption\, Split this Ro ck’s online social justice database\, The Quarry\, and in anthologies incl uding The Penguin Book of Indian Poets\, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood and This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformatio n.
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KRITTIKA GHOSH – Krittika Ghosh (she/her) is the Executive Director of the Asian/Pa cific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project (DVRP). She has extensiv e experience working on gender-based violencein the US and Canada for the past 21 years. Krittika’s experience includes developing innovative progra mming on prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) in immigrant and refuge e communities through transformative education and outreach campaigns such as the development of graphic novels and photo novels highlighting sexual violence\, development of trauma art therapy workshops and peer engagemen t in responding to GBV. She has deep experience in community engagement\, policy development and program management. Krittika was a founding member of Ontario’s Provincial Violence against Women’s round-table and provided feedback to policies on the government’s GBV related policies. Krittika is also a co-founder of the Shakti Peer group\, a peer-based group respondin g to gender-based violence in New York City.
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Krittika has been recognized for her work by the City of New York\, The Filipino Women’s Network\, was one of Mothe r Board Magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2017 for her work in ending gen der-based violence and is the recipient of the 2021 Imagene Stewart Surviv ing Sprit Award. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology and Women’s Studies from Simmons University\, Boston\, and with a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
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MONICA JAHAN BOSE- Monica Jahan Bose(she/her) is a Bangladeshi-Ame rican artist and climate activist whose work spans painting\, printmaking\ , film\, performance\, public art\, and writing. Her ongoing collaborative project STORYTELLING WITH SARIS with women farmers from her mother’s ance stral village has travelled to 11 US states and seven countries and engage d thousands of people. Her work has appeared in the Miami Herald\, the Was hington Post\, Art Asia Pacific\, the Milwaukee Sentinel\, the Honolulu St ar Advertiser\, the Japan Times\, and all major newspapers in Bangladesh. She is a board member of Samhati and currently manages the Katakhali eco-e mpowerment project. She was the editor of Daughter of the Agunmukha. She h as a BA in the Practice of Art (Painting) from Wesleyan University\, a pos t-graduate Diploma in Art from Santiniketan\, India\, and a JD from Columb ia Law School.
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Join artist/ filmmaker Monica Jahan Bose for the DC premiere of “Darchira River\,” a ne w performance film. The film is based on a performance about cimate ch ange let by Monica in Katakhali Village\, Bangladesh\, on the banks of the Darchira River\, which has been destroyed by climate change. The stunning footage shows women farmers of the village engage in singing\, writing\, and rituals towards healing climate change. In this ecofeminist work\, the women reframe a Muslim ritual of writing wishes\, into a feminist ritual of hope and renewal\, using writing\, turmeric and water. The film feature s village women’s oral tradition songs along with an original score by DC musician and sound designer Sonia Herrero. Cinematography: Shefali Akhter Shetu. Editing: Shefali Akhter Shetu and Monica Jahan Bose.

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Join us at lunchtime on Friday for the DC premiere at Artomatic.

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Running time 20 minutes\, followed by Q&A with artist

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Artomatic\, Friday\, April 19 at 12:15 pm\, 6th floor

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2100 M St NW\, Washington\, DC (metro\; Dupont Circle)

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