As part of our multimodal and multidisciplinary project, Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism, Intersect Antigua-Barbuda is pleased to host the webinar, Indigenous Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism: Testimonies from the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement in Guyana.
This webinar centers Indigenous women and movements in Guyana and the responsibilities of Caribbean feminists across race, ethnic, and gender differences in response to the current structure of imperial crisis in the region. This crisis, stretching across climate change, environmental destruction, extrajudicial killings, and oil wars, necessitates Caribbean feminist responses that center Indigenous modes of relation and knowledge production.
Immaculata Casimero is a Wapichan woman from South Rupununi and an advocate for Indigenous rights, women’s leadership, and community-led development in Wapichan Wiizi. In addition to co-founding the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement, she is the Gender Affairs Officer of the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC).
Akola Thompson is a writer and researcher rooted in Black-Indigenous Caribbean feminism, bridging activism and scholarship to advance gender equality. She currently serves as Managing Director of Tamùkke Feminists, a queer-led LBT+ collective in Guyana driving intersectional initiatives in sexual health and reproductive justice.
Joining our two speakers are our co-facilitators — senior lecturer at the UWI, St. Augustine Campus and previous Intersect Teach-In facilitator, Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, and co-founder and director of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda, Sarah-Anne Gresham.