Photo: Mohammad Rakibul Hasan/Background
In Bangladesh, young women surfers are rewriting narratives in a society where the waves of tradition run deep. For Anzuma Akter, who is 12 and in fifth grade, her board is the brush to paints her dreams of international acclaim. At 12, Bibi Jahan supports her family’s precarious finances with meager earnings from selling seaside trinkets. Hosne Ara Parvin, with eleven monsoons to her name, rebukes the whispered notion that surfing is not for girls. They are pioneers in a land where sports for girls are a burgeoning field. The mermaids of Cox’s Bazar are riding the tides of transformation and emerging as beacons of a future where every girl has the right to education, to sport, and the boundless pursuit of her dreams.
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