Ancestral Wisdom as a Somatic Practice
“What becomes possible when we stop outsourcing our healing and come home to what our lineages already know?” — Karlyn Percil
Post-Indenture Feminist Politics and Indigenous Solidarity
Indo-Caribbean feminism is “only one instantiation, only one representation, only one expression of post-indentureship feminism.” — Dr. Gabrielle Hosein
Saltwater Healing and Community Care
“In the Caribbean, rivers, swamps, coastlines, and forests share stories of rebellion.” — Dr. Angelique Nixon
Queer Joy as a Liberatory Practice
For systemically excluded communities, joy is more than a feeling; it is a political position and healing technology. — Shadeen Francis
Intersectionality and The Grenada Revolution
On demasculinizing revolutionary movements and figures, from Grenada to Cuba to Guyana, with Amílcar Sanatan.
Oil Wars in the Americas
“The oil war can be understood as the latest incursion on Latin American and Caribbean sovereignty in the wake of political decolonization.” — Dr. Ryan Cecil Jobson
Reading “Village Weavers” in Japan
“What is it about grief, that it enters a space a fog and leaves it burdened?”
Coming Soon: Liberation Poetics
We are pleased to announce the launch of Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism on October 1, 2026!
Between the Lips of the Waterfall
“She stands before the door. Feeling the tremor. Goes forward to the lock with fingertips trembling. Searching. Naked. Vulnerable in this corridor of wall, greyed like the lips of a waterfall.”
Wellness in the Queeribbean
On the violence of colonialism and heteronormativity on our bodies as well as surviving “otherwise” as Queeribbean people with Dr. Alisa Alvis.
Call for Submissions
This is a crucial period in which Caribbean feminist adherents, emboldened by and spirited with a decolonizing, Queeribbean sensibility, must rise to meet this moment.
A Liberation Delayed
“Black working people did not consistently subvert the control of colonial elites, as becoming free embedded them even more deeply in the structures of colonial domination.” — Dr. Natasha Lightfoot
The Transnational Politics of June Jordan
“June Jordan was uninterested in poetry and writing as a form of escapism; she was using it as a specific political tool — exemplified in ‘Poem about My Rights.’” — monaye johnson
Intersectionality in Transnational Contexts
"To treat intersectionality as an account of identity is to shear the framework of its radical potential and make it easily co-optable for neoliberal aims.” — Dr. Brittney Cooper
Caribbean Feminist Possibilities
“What are the radical possibilities of Caribbean feminisms? Do Caribbean feminisms confront their historical exclusions?” — Dr. Tonya Haynes
Old Testaments
“‘Strike Amnon down,’ then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I given you this order? Be strong and brave.” — 2 Samuel 13: 28
Visions of Kalinago and Garifuna in Peggy Carr’s “Shape of a Warrior”
…the lives, practices, language, and beliefs of the Kalinago as well as the Garifuna cannot be relegated to relics of history.
Salt
The water rolled up another time in quiet apology…
Babel and Babylon
Confronting Systems of Silence and Violence represented in novels by Cherie Jones and Kei Miller.
Get to Know Our New Artist-in-Residence
Her creative work includes her recently published poetry collection The Mother Island which won 2nd place in the 2021 FCLE competition.