OVOF - Use of Arts, Media and Culture-Bangladesh

Our Voices Our Futures (OVOF) has seen the results of working with artists, media and cultural workers. It helps shift mental models around gender and sexuality, and disrupts stigma steeped in bias and prejudice. OVOF partners have (effectively) used art and arts-based public campaigns (for example, film festivals) to change the way people think about highly stigmatised topics such as sex work, both within feminist movements and in society. Art has the power to reach people beyond activist circles and across country borders. Shifting social norms around gender and sexuality (both within and outside movements) is critical to OVOF and its work with artists.