Feminitt: Five Years Strong and Growing!
By Nyala Thompson
Today Feminitt Caribbean celebrates five years of transformative work and collective advocacy...
From Education to Legislation: Menstrual Health Education and Free Period Product Legislation's role developing Caribbean students
By Nyala Thompson Grunwald and Apphia Barton
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
By Chanelle Beatrice
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – 7th August 2024 Feminitt Caribbean is excited to announce the launch of “Break the Stigma, Pass the...
CSE: Bridging the gap between workplace policy and practice
By Scott Marchack
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
By Nyala Thompson Grunwald
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
By Apphia Barton
A transformative future reflects significant change – leading to improved well-being, equity, sustainability, and progress for all people...
Re-envisioning HFLE in the Caribbean
By Apphia Barton
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
By Apphia Barton
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
By Kela S. Roberts
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...
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...
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...
Period Inclusivity: Gender Inclusive Menstruation by Apphia Barton
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
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?
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?!
By Vandana Manisha Kissoon
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is a concept which has been explored for decades. It is the…
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
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
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
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 During COVID
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...