Over 40 years ago, the New Jewel Movement (NJM) ushered a period of revolutionary government in Grenada…Building on the social visions of Third World liberation, women's rights and social justice movements, a range of reforms to the social, gender and class order of the society were advanced. Yet, persistent inequalities, gaps in revolutionary praxis and continuities of colonial relations of power contained the liberation potential of the political party and state. In this teach-in, I discuss 20th century approaches to combatting multiple systems of oppression, the emergence of 'intersectionality' in theory and practical considerations for movement-building for gender justice today.
Amílcar Peter Sanatan is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist, educator and activist. He is from Trinidad and Tobago and currently works in Helsinki, Finland. Sanatan co-edited two special issues in academic journals on Caribbean gender and cultural studies. He holds a BSc. in Psychology and an MPhil in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. He is a PhD student in Cultural Studies in the same institution.