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Jul 157 min read

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...

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...

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...

Adolescent Pregnancy Intervention: The Need for Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Oct 25, 20214 min read

Feminist Thinking

Adolescent Pregnancy Intervention: The Need for Comprehensive Sexuality Education

By Vandana M. Kissoon Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Week is celebrated during the month of October annually. The aim of this is to...

Check yuh Bits: Breast Health and Breast Cancer Awareness

Oct 18, 20215 min read

Feminist Thinking

Check yuh Bits: Breast Health and Breast Cancer Awareness

By Nyala Thompson Grunwald Women account for 14% – 30% of breast cancer deaths in the Caribbean. For the purposes of this article, when I...

Maintaining Menstruals and Mental: The Reality of the much mocked ‘mood swings’ at the I

Oct 11, 20216 min read

Feminist Thinking

Maintaining Menstruals and Mental: The Reality of the much mocked ‘mood swings’ at the I

By Kela S. Roberts It’s something you really can’t explain. Language, as useful as it might be, can’t really encapsulate the phantom...

Filling the Gaps: Improving Our Approach to SRHR

Oct 4, 20214 min read

Feminist Thinking

Filling the Gaps: Improving Our Approach to SRHR

By Vandana M Kissoon Intergovernmental and humanitarian organizations have been lobbying for the implementation of comprehensive sexual...

Mythbusting Xenophobic Stereotypes in Trinidad and Tobago

Sep 27, 20215 min read

Feminist Thinking

Mythbusting Xenophobic Stereotypes in Trinidad and Tobago

By Judy Liverpool As a country that prides itself on inclusion and diversity, where it’s even mentioned in our national anthem, “where...

Shifting Planes, Shifting Tides: Migration and Healthcare Access

Sep 20, 20215 min read

Feminist Thinking

Shifting Planes, Shifting Tides: Migration and Healthcare Access

By Nyala Thompson Grunwald Accessibility, affordability, acceptability. According to Yip-Ching Yu’s citation of the World Health...

Stories from the Waterfronts- Migration, Sex Workers and Trinbagonian Culture

Sep 13, 20217 min read

Feminist Thinking

Stories from the Waterfronts- Migration, Sex Workers and Trinbagonian Culture

By Kela S. Roberts “We were waiting at the beach around 3am, everyone is soaking wet, the girls are tired, but we couldn’t rest we had to...

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