“Now, Listen Good, Yuh Hear?”
“Emancipation did not mean complete freedom, only modifying the terms and conditions of ownership…”
Responding from the Hills
Caribbean Cinema Made by Women Against Imperial Forgetting.
Blooming, Epistolary Poetics Against U.S. Empire
The Friendship of Nancy Morejón and June Jordan.
Labba & Creek Water
Lessons on Revolutionary Solidarity from Guyana to the World.
A Place for Theory: Finding Ceremony at the Black Feminisms Forum
From Haiti to Sudan, and from the DRC to Palestine, Black feminist gatherings, now more than ever, are orienting themselves around building worlds that attend varied harms that touch each of us across borders and across difference.
Transnational Feminism and Gender-Based Violence
A world released from the vicious grip of gender-based violence demands building movements across borders and regions. It calls for us to agitate for Palestine’s liberation, to push for an end to the war in Sudan and assist those displaced by it, and to protest the neocolonial forces keeping the Democratic Republic of the Congo in conflict and its people exploited for resources that power our societies. It calls for us to stand with Guyana and the people of the Essequibo region – many of whom are indigenous – who are at risk of being uprooted from their homes in the face of potential annexation by Venezuela. It requires that we engage in direct action and work to elevate the Caribbean’s collective consciousness through education and the co-creation of feminist thought.
Thriving Despite: Worlds-Shifting through Corona
Radical love in the time of Corona is making space for arms akimbo and mouth agape, for knee(s) bent and heartache, as we vacillate between dread, prayer, and protest, as we let go of how things were and how they should be.
raíces
madre estas raíces no se pegan a nada
madre tu angustia no se quita con nada
How a Small Island Gave Birth to Giants
Malcom X, Audre Lorde, and Amanda Seales.
Don't Marry Us. Instead, Stand By Us.
The worst part of it all, is that there are deep roots of trauma still plaguing our families yet the outsiders only care about the resorts, the plantain, or the reggae that is overplayed on certain radio stations.