What de 'F'

Aug 205 min read

From Education to Legislation: Menstrual Health Education and Free Period Product Legislation's role developing Caribbean students

In the Caribbean, social norms and economic disparities often intersect, like, the importance of menstrual health education and access to...

Break the Stigma, Pass the Pad: Paving a Period-Friendly T&T for Students

Aug 63 min read

Press release

Break the Stigma, Pass the Pad: Paving a Period-Friendly T&T for Students

Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – 7th August 2024 Feminitt Caribbean is excited to announce the launch of “Break the Stigma, Pass the...

Aug 55 min read

CSE: Bridging the gap between workplace policy and practice

As a master’s student in a Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P) program, I’m invested in how organizations can create...

Foreign Capital: Hurricane Beryl and the Intersections of Climate Justice and Gender Justice

Jul 157 min read

Feminist Thinking

Foreign Capital: Hurricane Beryl and the Intersections of Climate Justice and Gender Justice

Throughout the week that Hurricane Beryl passed through the Caribbean, I was lucky enough to not be there at the time. However a whole...

Imagining an equitable period-friendly Trinidad and Tobago

Jun 43 min read

Menstrual Equity

Imagining an equitable period-friendly Trinidad and Tobago

A transformative future reflects significant change – leading to improved well-being, equity, sustainability, and progress for all people...

Jun 29, 20233 min read

SRHR

Re-envisioning HFLE in the Caribbean

To re-envision Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) in the Caribbean is to move the well-intentioned and established educational...

Under the Careful, Watchful Eye: Body Image, Body Acceptance and CSE

Jun 15, 20233 min read

SRHR

Under the Careful, Watchful Eye: Body Image, Body Acceptance and CSE

At a younger age than we care to admit, the changing bodies of adolescents are the subject of undue scrutiny. The intrusive discussions...

Everything’s fine!: Testing & the Sexual Invincibility Fallacy

May 5, 20234 min read

Feminist Thinking

Everything’s fine!: Testing & the Sexual Invincibility Fallacy

People like sex. They like talking about it, thinking about it, having it or planning to have it. Honestly, a lot of our adult lives...

Apr 10, 20234 min read

Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy in Your Community

By Dr. Maurice Frank Adolescent pregnancy will significantly impact and impede the social and mental development of girls. It can even...

Jan 24, 20232 min read

An Investment for the Present and for the Future: Comprehensive Sexuality Education

This year, the theme of International Education Day is “to invest in people, prioritize education”. Investing in people is not an...

Sep 27, 20223 min read

Period Inclusivity: Gender Inclusive Menstruation by Apphia Barton

Oxford Languages, Google’s English Dictionary provider, i.e. the provider of Google’s definition search results online, prefaces the...

SRHR and Queerness: Destigmatising for a Safer, Healthier Way Forward

Mar 28, 20224 min read

Feminist Thinking

SRHR and Queerness: Destigmatising for a Safer, Healthier Way Forward

By Kela S. Roberts It is a truth well understood that SRHR knowledge and accessibility is crucial to the health and preservation of the...

Sexual and Reproductive Health Relations in the Caribbean: What is its currency?

Mar 7, 20225 min read

Feminist Thinking

Sexual and Reproductive Health Relations in the Caribbean: What is its currency?

By Nyala Thompson Grunwald It is legally recognised that every person has a right to proper healthcare, a right to proper sexual and...

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Caribbean: What are those?!

Mar 1, 20223 min read

Feminist Thinking

Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Caribbean: What are those?!

By Vandana Manisha Kissoon Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is a concept which has been explored for decades. It is the...

Jan 12, 20224 min read

Feminist Thinking

Combatting Period Poverty at Work

By Princess Avianne Charles Period poverty remains a global issue, negatively impacting the lives of people who menstruate daily. As...

Intimate Partner Violence: Turning Inward to Community

Dec 7, 20213 min read

Feminist Thinking

Intimate Partner Violence: Turning Inward to Community

By Deon J. Foster Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is, according to the CDC, abuse or aggression that occurs specifically within romantic...

Roots of GBV: Exploring Normalized Pedophilia in the Caribbean

Nov 29, 20215 min read

Feminist Thinking

Roots of GBV: Exploring Normalized Pedophilia in the Caribbean

By Judy Liverpool With the 16 Days of Activism in full swing, focusing on Gender-Based Violence, I have been thinking of the ways in...

Altering Gender-Based Violence and Trauma

Nov 23, 20217 min read

Feminist Thinking

Altering Gender-Based Violence and Trauma

By Nyala Thompson Grunwald Disclaimer: This article contains language and descriptions of physical and sexual violence that may be...

Understanding the ‘Why’: Discussions on Laissez-Faire Misogyny and the Uptick in GBV dur

Nov 8, 20216 min read

Feminist Thinking

Understanding the ‘Why’: Discussions on Laissez-Faire Misogyny and the Uptick in GBV dur

By Kela S. Roberts It’s an interesting thing to ask ourselves, the ‘why’, of violence. We understand, to an extent, the why of ‘getting...

Locked In and Locked Up: Gender-Based Violence and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nov 1, 20214 min read

Feminist Thinking

Locked In and Locked Up: Gender-Based Violence and the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Ashlee A. Burnett Global crises have a way of removing the rose coloured lenses from the eyes of the population as it forces us to...

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