About — Intersect Antigua

OUR MISSION

Connecting the Queeribbean through storytelling, healing justice, and political education

**OUR HISTORY**

Intersect was formed in 2015 in Antigua to spark dialogue and action to end violence against women and Queeribbean people. We’ve hosted a public rally, published pamphlets, collaborated with local gender justice organizations, co-created feminist knowledge with students, and now we are curating your amazing Caribbean feminist stories and art.

**OUR POLITICS**

Our feminism is grounded in the understanding that vectors of power intersect to produce varied experiences of oppression. Gender, colour, race, class, nation and other categories are not discrete but intersect to inform access, power, security, safety, and even love. Ours is a feminism that is anti-imperial, anti-colonial, anti-patriarchal, and anti-capitalist.
Our politics are manifold. "Wa’ladli," now “Wadadli,” and "Wa'Omoni" are the Indigenous names of the islands of Antigua and Barbuda. We have embraced "Wadadli feminism" to demonstrate our rejection of colonial and neo-colonial definitions of personhood, the nation, and development.

Our Principles

STORYTELLING

We “story the region” for gender justice and Queeribbean liberation to reconfigure and reimagine what it means to be human and what it means to be free.

FEMINIST COALITIONS

Building feminist coalitions with women and queer-led activist collectives in the Caribbean is a key organizing principle that guides our work. We are invested in decentering the academy as the primary location where knowledge sharing and learning can take place by co-creating Queeribbean feminist thought with people across the region.

RADICAL LOVE

We practice radical love as an action that transcends the self to permeate our communities. Our activism recognizes healing and justice as inseparable from a radical ethic of love and care. We are also committed to queering love by re-imagining and inventing spaces where all can live and thrive in joy.

TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE

We believe in transformative, restorative, and reparatory justice as ethical and more radical feminist methods to healing and restoring ourselves and our communities from violence. We also believe in environmental justice as a core feminist principle that must inform our work if we want to reverse the effects of the climate crisis that has severe and gendered impacts on small islands.

Intersect is committed to political education, wellness and healing justice, creative writing, critique, the arts, and Queeribbean liberation. We are here to re-imagine a world where Caribbean women, men, and gender expansive people are free to live and love in societies where they are cared for and cherished.