This teach-in explores the idea of post-indenture feminist politics and its relationship to Indigenous struggles for sovereignty in the Caribbean. It will define and discuss post-indenture feminisms as political and intellectual frameworks emerging from the historical experience of Indian indentureship and its afterlives. The session will also examine what solidarity with Indigenous Peoples means for Caribbean feminisms and decolonial politics. Drawing on her own work as an Indo-Caribbean feminist, the workshop reflects on difference in a multi-ethnic region and its implications for regional organising.
Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is Senior Lecturer at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. She has been part of Caribbean feminist movement-building for thirty years. Her current areas of research include post-indenture feminisms, masculinities and adolescent sexualities. She is the co-editor of the collections, Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities, and Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments.