Ibtisam Ahmed

Bio

Ibtisam Ahmed is a decolonial utopian scholar and queer activist. He is the Policy and Research Manager at LGBT Foundation and he aims to uplift marginalized voices in all his work.

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Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain’s short story Sultana’s Dream is a brief text, but its complexities and nuances make it a critical part of the utopian canon. [1] The narrative follows the titular Sultana as she explores an advanced feminist society called Ladyland, with the ambiguous ending leaving questions to whether it was an alternate reality or a dream (as the title suggests). Both possibilities lead to the same hopeful call for active change in her own world. Ladyland has seen the prevalent...