Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. The world celebrated love in red and ritual. Today, we turn to something deeper: voice.
Our 37th edition, Voices and Visibility, asks who gets to speak, who gets heard, and at what cost. From climate justice to colourism, from modern love shaped by data and law to millennial motherhood under pressure, this issue examines the structures that amplify some voices and silence others .
On our cover, Farzana Faruk Jhumu reminds us that silence is not neutral. For women navigating hostile or conservative spaces, visibility is not vanity, it is risk, responsibility, and resistance. As she says, sometimes you start by whispering. Even a whisper is a sound.
Visibility without integrity is performance. Voice without community is exposure. This edition honours women who speak anyway, who build anyway, who love anyway.
Because being seen is not the goal.
Being heard is