Checkmate: Think Twice. Check First.
Rethinking Digital Safety Through Art, Psychology, and Critical Thinking
In 2025, MajhaMajhi launched Checkmate: Think Twice. Check First. and the project began with a simple observation:
The next epidemic is not only misinformation—it is digital violence.
Fake videos. Image manipulation. Online blackmail. Cyberbullying. Public shaming. These experiences do not end when the screen turns off. They shape confidence, relationships, mental health, and sometimes the course of a person's life.
The project explored how digital violence affects young people psychologically while creating evidence to better understand its long-term impact on wellbeing and everyday life.
Reaching Young People Across Different Realities
Digital violence does not discriminate by income or geography.
That is why the project intentionally brought together students from Aga Khan Academy, Banani Model School, Korail community, and Barguna Government College, creating conversations across very different social and economic backgrounds. Social inclusion was not an outcome of the project—it was its design.
Learning Through Experience, Not Lectures
Instead of relying on long awareness workshops, we transformed learning into an experience.
Participants explored difficult conversations through:
Interactive forum theatre where the audience became part of the story
Performance art that translated psychological concepts into lived experiences
Comedy to make conversations about mental health approachable
Creative exercises that taught participants how to identify misinformation, respond to online abuse, and seek help for themselves or others
One of the project's most powerful moments was a live art installation inspired by a true story, where a performer gave voice to the invisible thoughts of a young woman living with the psychological aftermath of digital violence.
The performance invited audiences to witness not only what happened online, but what continued to happen inside her.