Who is Taslima Nasreen: The Bangladeshi author has been receiving backlash for her tweets criticising the practice of surrogacy. She called out surrogacy for being exploitative and invasive of a woman’s body. A feminist, secular humanist and activist, Taslima Nasreen is known to be vocal about issues like gender and religious oppression of people.
Taslima Nasreen has received backlash for her ‘different opinions’ on the practice of surrogacy. The author considers it as an exploitation of poor women as she slams the rich women for their reluctance to be surrogate mothers themselves and using poor women to inhabit their traits into their children.
She wrote on Twitter, “I won’t accept surrogacy until rich women become surrogate moms. I won’t accept burqa until men wear it out of love. I won’t accept prostitution until male prostitution (sic) are built and men wait for female customers. Otherwise, surrogacy, burqa, prostitution are just exploitation of women and the poor.”
Calling out the backlash she is receiving over her ‘stone-age’ opinions, she referred her views about surrogacy as ‘individual opinions. “Many support surrogacy as ‘individual choice’, but do not support any ‘individual opinion’ if that opinion is critical of surrogacy, ” she wrote in a tweet.
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Who is Taslima Nasreen?
Taslima Nasreen is a Bangladeshi writer, activist, secular humanist and physician who is vocal about issues including feminism, rape, male domination, patriarchy, domestic violence and religious oppression. Some of her books have also been banned in Bangladesh. Born in a Muslim family, Nasreen claims to be an atheist.
Nasreen is known for her famous books including Lajja, Shodh and French Lover. Her book Lajja has been banned in both India and Bangladesh for its controversial content regarding Muslims. Nasreen’s books have been translated into more than 20 languages. Along with novels, Taslima has also written books on poetry, memoirs, autobiographies, newspaper columns and essays.
An MBBS graduate, she has received several awards for her works like Ananda Puraskar in 1992, Sakharov Prize for Freedom of thought in 1994, Simone de Beauvoir Prize in 2008 and UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence in 2004 among others.
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