Rebecca Chowdhury

Rebecca Chowdhury

Rebecca Chowdhury is a freelance journalist covering grassroots organizing and focusing on immigration, criminal justice and surveillance issues. Her work has appeared in Time, The Appeal, In These Ti

6 posts
color photograph of an outdoor protest. a woman in a black head scarf wearing a yellow shirt stands in the foreground shoutin
Crime, Reform & Abolition

Groups focused on ending gender-based violence are building new worlds outside of the carceral system

When Jinat Talukder immigrated to the U.S., she lost her independence. The freedom she enjoyed as a woman in Bangladesh became a distant memory as she was forced to adhere to her husband’s expectations.  “After getting married, I was told things I had never heard before,” Talukder said

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10 Min
By: Rebecca Chowdhury
color photograph of people wearing blue and grey press vests kneeling around bodies in white cloth shrouds
Opinion

Why journalists must speak out about Gaza

These attacks on journalists are part of a regime of occupation, apartheid, and extermination that dates back to before the 1948 Nakba

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9 Min
By: Tina Vásquez, Lewis Raven Wallace, Rebecca Chowdhury, Aja Arnold, Victoria Bouloubasis, Rae Garringer, Charmaine Lang, Nour Saudi, Irene Vázquez
color photograph of a line of male asylum-seekers on a New York City sidewalk
Economy & Workers' Rights

Mutual aid groups in NYC support asylum-seekers where the city has failed

Mutual aid organizers fill the dire gaps left by the city and nonprofits

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6 Min
By: Rebecca Chowdhury
Black deportees to Haiti face indefinite detention
Immigration

Black deportees to Haiti face indefinite detention

Black detainees in Haiti face inhumane, torturous conditions without clear avenues for release

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9 Min
By: Rebecca Chowdhury
There’s a special court for sex workers, but it’s a far cry from what they need
Crime, Reform & Abolition

There’s a special court for sex workers, but it’s a far cry from what they need

The massage parlor killings in Atlanta, Georgia, reminds us why reimagining public safety is an urgent matter.

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5 Min
By: Rebecca Chowdhury
Vice President Kamala Harris addresses the country for the first time after being sworn into office.
Race

Here’s what working-class South Asian groups want to see under a Biden-Harris administration

Many South Asians have celebrated Kamala Harris’ vice presidency as a major victory for representation, tenderly calling her “Kamala aunty.” Harris’ mother was a scientist from India and her father is an economist from Jamaica. Her career and middle class background capture the stark divides within the South Asian and

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5 Min
By: Rebecca Chowdhury

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