What is it like to be part of a community that does not accept your sexual orientation? This is a familiar situation for many queer people worldwide. To highlight the realities of living as a queer person in Bangladesh, in 2015 the NGO Boys of Bangladesh (BoB) launched a comic strip about Dhee, a Bangladeshi woman in her twenties who realizes that she is lesbian. The strip is at once straightforward and nuanced – the signature comic book style belies the seriousness of the subject matter, which can at times be quite bleak.

Take a look at this article to see how Bangladeshi media reacted to Dhee when she was introduced in 2015. Are comics and other art forms effective tools to open up communities to different expressions of sexuality?

 

The hard life of Dhee: Bangladesh’s first lesbian comic book c…