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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Joining Dr. Hosein as co-facilitator and host is Intersect Antigua-Barbuda’s co-founder and director, Sarah-Anne Gresham!

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CO-FACILITATOR & HOST: SARAH-ANNE GRESHAM
INTERSECT ANTIGUA-BARBUDA

Sarah-Anne Gresham is the co-founder of Intersect Antigua-Barbuda and a PhD candidate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of “Black Bodies at Play: Race and Gender at the Edges of Subjectivity,” and the forthcoming chapter, “Traveling Theory: The Promises and Pitfalls of Intersectionality.” With support from the Equality Fund, Black Feminist Fund, and CAISO-Astraea, she has endeavoured to expand the scope of Intersect through Caribbean feminist storytelling, political education and healing justice programmes, and public-facing writing projects, including Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our two speakers will be accompanied by two facilitators. Here, we have Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, senior lecturer at the UWI, St. Augustine campus, and previous Intersect Teach-In facilitator 👇🏾

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CO-FACILITATOR: DR. GABRIELLE HOSEIN
INSTITUTE FOR GENDER & DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, UWI, ST. AUGUSTINE

Dr. 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.”
Her national newspaper column, “Diary of a Mothering Worker,” was published from 2012 – 2026 in the Trinidad Guardian and Newsday.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For our second speaker, we will be joined by Akola Thompson of Tammùke Feminists!

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SPEAKER: TAMÙKKE FEMINISTS

AKOLA THOMPSON
Akola 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.
Her research explores the intersections of reproductive justice, extractivism, and environmental harm. A 2023 recipient of The Commonwealth Youth Award for Gender Equality, Akola has led impactful projects spanning LBT+ sex education, the creation of a GBV support guide app, Indigenous SRHR training manuals, and policy reform.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We will be hosting two speakers. First, our keynote speaker, Immaculata Casimero of the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement 👇🏾

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER: IMMACULATA CASIMERO

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. She co-founded the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement and is the Gender Affairs Officer of the South Rupununi District Council (SRDC).
Her work includes addressing sexual and gender-based violence, supporting women’s livelihoods, and responding to the impacts of climate change. She also supports efforts to strengthen food sovereignty, protect traditional knowledge, and ensure village voices shape the decisions that affect their lands, health, and future.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We, at Intersect, are thrilled to announce our upcoming webinar, “Indigenous Feminisms Against Imperialism: Testimonies from the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement in Guyana” 🇬🇾✊🏽❤️ 🌾 Register here: forms.gle/2XWyddo1yKnE...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda presents
INDIGENOUS CARIBBEAN FEMINISMS AGAINST IMPERIALISM: Testimonies from the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement in Guyana
with IMMACULATA CASIMERO

via Zoom
on October 8th
at 2:30 PM AST

Register via the QR code in this image

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Joining Dr. Hosein as co-facilitator and host is Intersect Antigua-Barbuda’s co-founder and director, Sarah-Anne Gresham!

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Our two speakers will be accompanied by two facilitators. Here, we have Dr. Gabrielle Hosein, senior lecturer at the UWI, St. Augustine campus, and previous Intersect Teach-In facilitator 👇🏾

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For our second speaker, we will be joined by Akola Thompson of Tammùke Feminists!

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We will be hosting two speakers. First, our keynote speaker, Immaculata Casimero of the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement 👇🏾

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🔗 Interested in attending? Learn more about the session, our facilitator, and register at this link: forms.gle/PUNmUojw1KWF...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

And here are some questions to guide you in preparation for this session👇🏾

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1. Whose definition of wellness have you been carrying/prioritizing, and what wisdom did you leave behind to hold it?

2. What is your body already knowing that your mind hasn't given permission to trust yet?

3. How do we build culturally rooted, somatic practices of well-being that can hold us through crisis without asking us to abandon ourselves or each other to survive?

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In this session, we will explore what it means to be “culturally well” 💙

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Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how cultural narratives shape wellbeing, a practical embodied experience rooted in ancestral wisdom, and renewed insight into how culture, community, and imagination can support healing and possibility, especially in uncertain times.

We will explore what it means to be Culturally Well, not as an individual pursuit, but as a practice of meaning-making, cultural remembrance, collective care, and dreaming bigger — together.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The title of this session is, “Culturally Well: Ancestral Wisdom as a Somatic Practice for Uncertain Times,”and it is guided by the teachings of feminist thinkers like Sylvia Wynter and Audre Lorde 💭

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Drawing on Sylvia Wynter's invitation to think beyond narrow definitions of the human, alongside the work of Audre Lorde, land-based traditions, and culturally rooted somatic intelligence, this session asks: what becomes possible when we stop outsourcing our healing and come home to what our lineages already know?

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Have you registered for our upcoming Prideful Healing session with Karlyn Percil as yet? 📅 : Thursday 27 August ⏰ : 6 PM AST/ET 📍: Zoom 🌀 Register here: forms.gle/PUNmUojw1KWF...

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ANCESTRAL WISDOM AS SOMATIC PRACTICE
About the Session
By KARLYN PERCIL

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We, at Intersect, are elated to invite you to our next Prideful Healing session guided by Karlyn Percil, titled “Culturally Well: Ancestral Wisdom as a Somatic Practice for Uncertain Times” ✨💙🌀 🔗 Register here: forms.gle/PUNmUojw1KWF...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Scan the QR code on the image below or click the following link to learn more and register! See you there? 🔗: forms.gle/gWDTD1XjXHsU...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Check out the full talk here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=7J_B...

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“We must confront power and privilege, silences about race, class, antiblackness, and colorism. We must reject respectability and harmful gender norms. Embrace spiritual practices of our ancestors and build a regional identity with Indigenous and First Peoples at the center.”

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In preparation, we’re sharing some resonant quotes from her TEDx talk, “The Elements of Decolonial Healing Justice” 👇🏾

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Burn. Resist. Act. Care. Elevate.
“The Caribbean sea and these islands bear witness to extraction, exploitation, dependence, vulnerability, and new kinds of colonial rule. Colonialism still impacts us today, even if we don’t fully see it.”

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Our Prideful Healing session with Dr. Angelique V. Nixon — “Saltwater Healing & Community Care”— is a few days away!! 📅 : Thursday 16th July ⏰ : 6 PM AST/ET 📍: Zoom 🌊 Register here: forms.gle/gWDTD1XjXHsU...

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The Elements of Decolonial Healing Justice
by Dr. Angelique V. Nixon
TEDx Talks
Intersect Antigua-Barbuda

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The text in this slide is white and overlayed atop an image of Dr. Angelique V. Nixon. She is a light skinned black woman, smiling with her hands folded. There are tattoos across both of her arms, and she is wearing a red head wrap with a matching chunky red necklace. Cowry shell earrings dangle from her ears, and she is wearing a black top with matching black spectacles. There is a white arrow in the right hand corner of this slide, pointing right.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We, at Intersect, are delighted to invite you to our next Prideful Healing: Wellness in the Queeribbean session guided by Dr. Angelique V. Nixon — “Saltwater Healing & Community Care” ❤️✨ 🌿 Register here: forms.gle/gWDTD1XjXHsU...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🔗 Submit a piece via the QR code below or this link by June 1, 2026: forms.gle/FERGWwSummZf...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

How should Caribbean feminist collectives situate themselves in this moment of polycrisis? This is one of several angles you can take as you craft your submission 💭

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WRITING PROMPTS
* How can we strengthen solidarity networks with the people of Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, Venezuela, and the rest of the Caribbean?
* What axes of power, including race, gender, sexuality, class, and/or nation, intersect to compound the vulnerabilities of people across the region whom the US government has identified as inherently criminal, existentially excess, and ungrievable?
* How is the imperial violence meted out against Gazans, Lebanese people, and Iranians connected to that which is inflicted upon the people of the Caribbean? What does this connection offer for Caribbean radical traditions and liberation efforts?
* How should Caribbean feminist collectives situate themselves in this moment of polycrisis?

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Here are some writing prompts to guide you 👇🏾

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WRITING PROMPTS
* What does a turn to the 'Queeribbean' offer as an antagonism against imperialism's political, religious, and cultural conceits?
* Whose stories, from plant, animal, and human life, are not being told in this moment?
* What do Caribbean feminist freedoms look, sound, and feel like?
* Has 'feminism' been disciplined in the Caribbean in a way that exhausts and forecloses more radical paradigms for critical thought and action?
* How can Caribbean feminisms, or other frameworks that are attentive to power, be more responsive to the crisis of "global north" imperialism and fascism?
* What lessons do past and current movements and figures for liberation in the Caribbean region offer?

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

With this in mind, we invite you to submit reviews, critical essays, fiction, plays, poetry, posters, screenplays, art, and photography that address the urgency of leveraging Caribbean feminisms as a primary antagonism against imperialism and fascism.

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We invite you to submit pieces that address imperialism, from the perspective of gender, race, color, class, nation, and/or sexuality, in any of the following broad topics:
* Queering resistance
* Resisting the masculinization of revolution
* Rootedness in Caribbean identity, poetics of relation, opacité, antillanité, creolité: Moving across the Afro-, Indo-, and Indigenous Caribbean
* Caribbean feminist perspectives and stories on grief, trauma, healing, and joy
* Ancestral insurgencies: lessons from past movement shakers and revolutionaries
* Insurgency and disability justice
* Transnational feminist solidarity against global imperialism
* Political ecology, climate and environmental justice
* Decolonization, anticolonialism, abolition
* Contesting Christian Zionism in the Caribbean
* Diaspora Tings: Caribbean university students and McCarthyism in the US and UK
DUE: JUNE 1, 2026

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Imperialism stretches across borders and harms people across difference: from martyred people of the soil to stolen oil. This is a crucial period in which Caribbean feminists, emboldened by a decolonizing, Queeribbean sensibility, must rise to meet this moment.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda invites you to submit critical essays, reviews, fiction, plays, poetry, posters, screenplays, art, and photography that address the urgency of leveraging Caribbean feminisms as a primary antagonism against imperialism and fascism.

These pieces constitute one of a plethora of pathways to test the US' growing imperial reach in the region and beyond - from its material and economic chokehold upon the Cuban people, to its violent incursions into Venezuela, to its boat strikes upon people of the Southern Caribbean, to its genocide in Gaza. Imperialism is far-reaching, stretching across borders, and harming people across difference: from martyred people of the soil to stolen oil.

This is a crucial period in which Caribbean feminists, emboldened by and spirited with a decolonizing, Queeribbean sensibility, must rise to meet this moment.

We are hopeful that you will join us in raising up a strident cry against its violence.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“The heartbreak of the independence struggle leading toward neocolonialism and enforced economic (also cultural) dependence within political independence is the great tragic story of the modern Caribbean...”

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“The heartbreak of the independence struggle leading toward neocolonialism and enforced economic (also cultural) dependence within political independence is the great tragic story of the modern Caribbean...But each region and each society has its own story to tell, its own high hopes of the early independence era dashed by the power of the multinational giants (enforced, if need be, at the point of a gun), reinforced by local elites who frequently talked about national dignity but wanted, most of all, a share of the spoils.”
— PAULE BUHLE, “Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story”

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Is there a book, film, documentary, or TV series that has moved you? Want to talk about it? Send your review to us!

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Liberation Poetics
New Submission Category: REVIEWS
BOOKS, FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES, TV SERIES

Click the QR code in this image to submit your piece!

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This time, we’re introducing a new submission category: Reviews!! ✍🏾

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Liberation Poetics
New Submission Category: REVIEWS
BOOKS, FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES, TV SERIES

"Did the French have alien cards?"
"My friends, tell me...during the American occupation, when they killed Péralte...did the Americans have alien cards?"
-"Alyen kat" by Manno
Charlemagne

"Bitter Cane"
(1983, Haiti)

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We return to you today to continue our call for submissions — “Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism, from Haiti to Sudan” ✊🏾❤️🇭🇹🇸🇩 ❗️Submit a piece here: forms.gle/FERGWwSummZf... ‼️ DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2026

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda presents
LIBERATION POETICS: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism, from Haiti to Sudan

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2026

CRITICAL ESSAYS
PHOTOGRAPHY
SCREENPLAYS
REVIEWS
POSTERS
FICTION
POETRY
PLAYS
ART

Click the QR code in this image to submit your piece!

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🔗 Access the call for submissions, theme description, guidelines, writing prompts, and submission form here: forms.gle/FERGWwSummZf...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🗓️ Submit your stories to us for 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 by June 1st!!

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda presents
LIBERATION POETICS: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism, from Cuba to Palestine

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2026

CRITICAL ESSAYS
FICTION
PLAYS
POETRY
POSTERS
SCREENPLAYS
ART
PHOTOGRAPHY

Click the QR code in this image to submit your piece!

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A black and white photo of Maurice Bishop and a coloured photo of Andaiye rest on the left hand side of this flyer. Maurice is smiling with his fists raised, while Andaiye is in colour and sitting with a contemplative expression on her face. They are both surrounded by yellow and white flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. The text in this image is black — with the exception of the words, “LIBERATION POETICS: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism, from Cuba to Palestine,” which is a deep yellow. Everything rests against a maroon red background with a slight gradient.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The small victories they have won encourage them, as does their relationship with women struggling and sometimes winning in Haiti, Venezuela, Chhattisgarh in India; Uganda, indigenous communities in Latin America; Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

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They and their children are of more than one generation, ranging in age from their teens to their twenties, thirties, and forties. The women are working their way to believing that through their own organizing they can make change happen.

The small victories they have won encourage them, as does their relationship with women struggling and sometimes winning in Haiti, Venezuela, Chhattisgarh in India; Uganda, indigenous communities in Latin America; Ireland, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The question is: for whom are you telling the history?

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

There is no frontier between home and street 🏠🚏

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At the level of the household it usually involves people, and it often takes place outside—for example in the Third World by the riverside or the fireside or in the market. In some conditions, as in Guyana in 1983, the crisis itself puts housewives in a position to become even more consciously part of a sector as they come together daily, across race, with other housewives, in food lines and in shops where they hunt and gather food. There is no frontier between home and street.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Left-wing parties and feminists have in different ways underestimated the power of housewives 👇🏾

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Eusi Kwayana spoke of one grassroots woman, Kathy Wills, then in her early fifties, who “became one of [the WPA’s] living banners, [and] set an example in street action such as picketing, demonstrations and placing herself as a human barrier to wrongdoing.”

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Women, like men, suffered dismissals from work, police searches, threats, official arrests, unofficial arrests (being picked up and carried miles away from home in some strange place and left to find one’s way back was a regular occurrence), imprisonments, and beating.

Eusi Kwayana spoke of one grassroots woman, Kathy Wills, then in her early fifties, who “became one of [the WPA’s] living banners, [and] set an example in street action such as picketing, demonstrations and placing herself as a human barrier to wrongdoing.”

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

✍🏾 In this essay, Andaiye underlines the centrality of women — particularly housewives and carers, who are often overlooked or underestimated in these contexts — to organising and resistance movements across Guyana.

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Very many grassroots women were on the frontlines in the streets: as the civil rebellion grew, repression against the WPA escalated.
(A WPA Recognition Handbook was produced by the security forces, with 22 of our names accompanied by photos, license plates of cars we might drive, and even in some cases physical identification marks).

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Today, we’re sharing excerpts from another 2010 essay by Andaiye in “The Point is to Change the World” — titled, “Housewives and other Carers in the Guyanese Resistance of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Looking Back” 🇬🇾✊🏾🧵

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HOUSEWIVES AND OTHER CARERS IN THE GUYANESE RESISTANCE of the Late 1970s and Early 1980s: Looking Back

In the 1979 civil rebellion, women were central to organizing actions from within the center, and a few were directly involved in what
Rupert Roopnaraine has called the effort to create an insurrectionary movement.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🔗 Access the call for submissions theme description, guidelines, writing prompts, and submission form through the link here or in our bio: forms.gle/FERGWwSummZf...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🤔💭 Did you know that Sylvia Wynter was not only a literary and cultural theorist and philosopher, but also a playwright, actress, and a novelist?

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They bowed their heads. The instinct for survival was as strong in them as in their slave ancestors. Some weight of memory in their blood carried the ghosts of dark millions who had perished, coffined in the holds of ships, so that some could live to breed more slaves; and they, after their freedom had been won, survived the rootless years. They survived the loss of gods and devils that were their own, of familiar trees and hills and huts and spears and cooking pots, of their own land in which to see some image of themselves
- SYLVIA WYNTER, The Hills of Hebron

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🔗 Interested in learning more? Scan the QR code below or click this link to register and access the reading materials: forms.gle/PohptesQztTc...

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“In either case, the independent intelligence or decision-making capacity of the woman was not considered.”

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The advantages of this new situation however, was that women could now on their own accord leave one husband for another or have parallel relationships with more than one man.
Sarah Morton noted with dismay many such cases, including one where the mother left her child with its father when leaving to go to live with another man. Of course, reports vary as to the degree to which women left one man for another or were enticed or seduced away from one man to another. Proponents of the former position viewed this action as immoral while proponents of the latter, viewed the woman as hapless childlike victims of adult, worldly men.
In either case, the independent intelligence or decision-making capacity of the woman was not considered.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“[I]t was this historic conflation of interests between migrant Indian men… [and the] state's desire…which eventually led to the curtailment of the social and economic autonomy which numerous Indian women had sought to achieve in the new society.”

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As we shall see in this paper, it was this historic conflation of interests between migrant Indian men, struggling to improve their socio-economic and caste position within a new and hostile environment and the colonial capital and state's desire for a stable and eventually self-reproducing and cheap labour force which eventually led to the curtailment of the social and economic autonomy which numerous Indian women had sought to achieve in the new society.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“The prior definition of women as dependent 'house-wives' in addition facilitates the invisibility of women's work by allowing vast areas of their productive and reproductive activity to be 'hidden within the household'.”

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The prior definition of women as dependent
'house-wives' in addition facilitates the invisibility of women's work by allowing vast areas of their productive and reproductive activity to be 'hidden within the household'.
In the case of Indians in the Caribbean, this capitalist sexual division of labour was combined with the hierarchial social structure of the Brahmanic-Sanskritic tradition which included the seclusion of the non-productive women of the twice-born castes, as a symbol of purity and higher caste status.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“The initial phase of migration to the Caribbean of Indians destined for indentured labour on the plantations began as early as 1838….”

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When Indian indentureship to Trinidad began in 1845, what later became known as the 'Indian Women Problem' had already reared its head. The initial phase of migration to the Caribbean of Indians destined for indentured labour on the plantations began as early as 1838 when migrants to the then British Guiana were among the 6,000 men and 100 women (approximately) who were shipped to Mauritius, Australia and British Guiana between 1834 and 1839.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“Like women throughout history, they resisted and fought to maintain their relative degree of autonomy which in the last instance was in many ways wrested from them.”

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Indian women in the Caribbean in general and in Trinidad and Tobago in particular did not willingly and easily submit to the economic designs of local and colonial capital or the state. Like women throughout history, they resisted and fought to maintain their relative degree of autonomy which in the last instance was in many ways wrested from them.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

This is one of a few recommended readings we’re taking a look at in preparation for our next teach-in, “Post-Indenture Feminist Politics and Indigenous Solidarity”with Dr. Gabrielle Hosein (IG: grrlscene)!!

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One of the long-held myths about Indian women immigrants in Trinidad and Tobago is that they migrated with their families under the power, authority and control of their male relatives and were docile and tractable.
These views ignore the historical documentation on the 'Indian Women Problem' which confronted the colonial office as far back as 1845 when Indian indentureship to Trinidad.

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Today, we’re sharing some excerpts from “Freedom Denied: Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad & Tobago, 1845 - 1917” by Dr. Rhoda Reddock (IG: reddockr2018) 📚🧵👇🏾

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Freedom Denied: Indian Women and Indentureship in Trinidad & Tobago, 1845 - 1917
by Dr. Rhoda Reddock

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Intersect Antigua-Barbuda @intersectanu.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Check out our guiding questions here 👇🏾

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GUIDING QUESTIONS

Has your feminist praxis taken into account the region's ethnic diversity, and particularly the presence of Indo-Caribbean feminist histories?

Has your feminist praxis taken into account what Indigenous solidarity requires of Caribbean feminisms?

Why should and how can Caribbean feminist organising mobilise a post-indenture and decolonial politics?

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