Indigenous Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism
Testimonies fom the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement in Guyana.
The Imprecise Science of Character Naming
Set in the era when women were just starting to break through in Antiguan calypso, incidentally a period when I was in the tents reporting on calypso, “Destiny” was always an underdog rising story.
Coolieween
In the next series of images you will see, I work through the traces of these violent histories of Indo-Caribbean misogyny that have been left behind in our houses, songs, language, families, communities, and bodies.
Colour Me Black
Black child's mother says her ears gave it away
The hint of shame on an otherwise perfect face
Naima
She would not allow the creeping doubts from the previous months to dampen her spirit. Not while she had the rum in her system. She bobbed and weaved to make her feathers dance some more and so the stage lights could pick up the glitter on her skin
Unlearning anti-Blackness
It was only after my hair started to grow into its own, after my hair started to gain length that the attitude they had changed.