Caribbean Feminist Reflections: Liberation in a Time of COVID-19

Caribbean Feminist Reflections: Liberation in a Time of Covid

Thanks for joining the Caribbean Solidarity Network for a conversation with Feminists across the Caribbean, speaking on working towards liberation in a pandemic.

Caribbean Solidarity Network on Monday June 1st, 2020 @ 7pm for a live-stream here and on both our YouTube Channel and Facebook: Caribbean Solidarity Network

Featuring

Alissa Trotz is a scholar, writer and editor of In the Diaspora, in the Guyanese daily The Stabroek News. She is also the the Director of the Women & Gender Studies Institute, and Director of the undergraduate Caribbean Studies Program at New College.

Amina Doherty is a Nigerian/Antiguan feminist artivist. Currently, Amina is the Program Director of the Caribbean Women’s Voice and Leadership program at the MATCH International Women’s Fund. Learn more about her art-based movement work and curation.

Angelique Nixon is a writer, artist, teacher, scholar, activist, and poet -- born and raised in Nassau, The Bahamas. She is a Lecturer and Graduate Studies Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago.

Gabrielle Hosein is a Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago. She has been involved in Caribbean feminist movement building for two decades. She also writes a weekly column, Diary of a Mothering Worker, for the Trinidad Guardian.

Moderator: Kimalee Phillip is African-Grenadian and a lifelong educator, organizer, consultant and writer. Her work focuses on workers' rights, gender-based and sexualized violence, anti-colonial, anti-racist pedagogies and organizational development. She is a member and organizer with the Caribbean Solidarity Network. She was recently part of a course on Society: Economy and Ecology (SEE) in the Caribbean: How Will We Organise to Live? Dedicated to late Guyanese activist Andaiye, which produced this statement by Feminists on organizing in the Caribbean during this pandemic.