“If your healing was a paniah machete, what would it chop dung on the way to your liberation?”
As part of — and in conversation with — our multimodal project, Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism, we are pleased to announce our newest Prideful Healing session, “The Master’s Tools, The Mother’s Tongue: Healing and the Paniah Machete” with Carla Moore!
This session is an invitation to consider the meaning and the feeling of liberation — not just as aspiration, but as a thing that may carry imperialist debris. In this container, we will confront and work through some of the more complicated aspects of liberation and healing.
Who, and what systems, benefit from the version of healing I am pursuing?
What would liberation feel like in MY body? And what would it look like in my community?
And after healing, after liberation, what then?
Through an exploration of personal experience (Carla’s and yours), art, and Caribbean feminist thought, our facilitator invites us to grapple with pleasure, queerness, and our hopes for communities and lives that are free.
Carla Moore is an artist, activist, academic, alchemist, and an Assistant Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Campus Unit. Her research, activism, curriculum development, content creation, event curation, and coaching focus on personal and community liberation through decolonial praxis. Most importantly, she grapples with what it might feel like to be free. She holds a BA (Hons.) Media and Communications with a Minor in Cultural Studies from the UWI Mona, an MA in Gender Studies from Queen’s University, and Certifications in Solution Oriented Coaching and Transformational Life Coaching. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in gender and development.