The Heroine's Journey

Talisma Nasrin is a renown, out-spoken Bangladesh feminist. She works to build support for secular humanism, freedom of thought, equality for women, and human rights by publishing, lecturing, and campaigning. This is Supatra's own poetic response to one of Taslima's poem, "The Woman Breaking Bricks". 

            The Heroine's Journey

With you I am weeping, brick breaking girl

Your sadness drowns my heart

Your misery pierces my soul

Your pain tears me apart

I will ask all my friends,

What would you feel,

what would you say,

if brick breaking girl

lives in the USA,

works for Webcor,

building Juicy Couture? 

Will our T.V. tell her story

inside out and outside in,

Day after day?

It's you I am embracing, brick breaking girl

Your resilience lift my soul

Your forbearance fill my heart

Your fortitude I uphold

With you, and with all of us, I break the brick

We will build the great tower

And plant flowers on it

           

                                    - Supatra Chowchuvech , CHAA Thai Community Advocate