Tricia Sharpe 7/13/21 Tricia Sharpe 7/13/21

Body

I wonder if you would still love her

If she had no body

No female physical attributes for you men to gaze at

No Instagram picture to hit the love button

Tifa Wine/Ryan Persadie 11/2/20 Tifa Wine/Ryan Persadie 11/2/20

Coolieween

The names listed here are just a mere fragment of the lists upon lists of diasporic Indo-Caribbean women who have been injured, harmed, and murdered at the hands of heteropatriarchal power – whether that be in the form of their parents, community members, or even intimate partners.

Nneka Nicholas 10/30/20 Nneka Nicholas 10/30/20

Forgiveness

As Shea sat in the pew listening to Father Lewis preach about forgiveness, her mind wandered back to the trial. Fr. Lewis was getting into the throes of the sermon and showed no signs of letting up any time soon. She allowed her thoughts to drift.

Sarah-Anne Gresham 10/30/20 Sarah-Anne Gresham 10/30/20

Generation Cry

Taitu Kai Goodwin. Taitu. Daughter of the Soil. Antigua Girls’ High School Alumna. Former Ambassador’s daughter. Miss Anguilla. Someone I knew. Taitu.

Jacinth Howard 10/30/20 Jacinth Howard 10/30/20

Becoming Rage

Tantie Mary say that since me feel me a big woman now, to gwan and don’t comeback. The words still ring in my head three weeks later. My last image of Hibiscus Road featured the woman who raised me.

Latoya Waugh 10/30/20 Latoya Waugh 10/30/20

Her Fate Decided

It was three months after moving into their new home that Toni-Ann was recognising a new pattern with George. He seemed secretive, withdrawn at times and agitated with her most days.

Grace Peters-Clarke 10/30/20 Grace Peters-Clarke 10/30/20

In The Bowels of Her Memory

Maybe this is the time to come clean. This is the salvation, the sign she had been beseeching the universe for the last four years. Or maybe this is a trap. To admit the abuse, would be to admit her weakness.

Lexington Wilks 10/30/20 Lexington Wilks 10/30/20

Take Me or Leave Me

Maybe this is the time to come clean. This is the salvation, the sign she had been beseeching the universe for the last four years. Or maybe this is a trap. To admit the abuse, would be to admit her weakness.

Arita Phillip 10/30/20 Arita Phillip 10/30/20

This is Not Love

Control is not love. Obsession is not love. Harassing a person to respond in a certain time frame is not love. That’s entitlement.

Dani 10/30/20 Dani 10/30/20

Red looks like Ruby – The abuse we don’t see

Being in love is a sensation like no other. The feeling of being validated...I got the guy! He told me that the way our feelings developed for each other were so unique and effortless. He never wants to lose it

Majella Mark 10/30/20 Majella Mark 10/30/20

West Indian parenting style…

One of the participants was an American woman of Haitian descent who expressed her trouble dealing with depression due to the struggle of sharing mental and emotional concerns with her mother.

Majella Mark 10/30/20 Majella Mark 10/30/20

The Objectification of Young Girls

One of the most heinous crimes that constantly gets dismissed in the Caribbean and has gone on for generations is the exploitation of young girls by adult men.

Janielle Browne 10/30/20 Janielle Browne 10/30/20

Hookin’ Me

Imagine being 13 still just a little sprat

But the men you grow up ‘round

Can’t seem to see that

Your uniform ready for school

Janielle Browne 10/30/20 Janielle Browne 10/30/20

Calypso Tingz

Imagine being 13 still just a little sprat

But the men you grow up ‘round

Can’t seem to see that

Your uniform ready for school

Amelia Badri 10/30/20 Amelia Badri 10/30/20

Purple Thyme: A Pantoum Poem

She wants to say something to him about how pretty the purple thyme grows this time of year.

Denise Westfield 10/30/20 Denise Westfield 10/30/20

She Who Has Found Herself

Sitting straight-backed on a cluster of smooth rocks, not too far from Jonita, was a breadnut-brown woman with a sprawling afro enclosed in a circle of plaits decorated with iridescent shells at the base, and a lush body with a waist that curved into…