Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
Men in high places across the region have advice for schoolgirls. Trinidad & Tobago’s Attorney General is reported as stating that date rape is a fact of life and girls should therefore be responsible especially at Christmas time. Barbados men’s rights group MESA were reported as stating…
Why Kamla and I agree
Originally posted on One nation…many bodies…boundless faith:
Last week I called my Prime Minister a political coward who’d embarrassed the nation internationally. I wasn’t alone. Joining the bobolee-thumping were the Guardian editors, several letter-to-the editor-writers, columnists in every paper, Family Planning president Gerry Brooks and Archbishop Harris. Fielding a question about our laws (we have four now, only one colonial) criminalising gay and anal sex…
Getting It Wrong On Rape Or No Sperm, No Rape, Or Why a Two-Year-Old Girl Does Not Need to be Taught Modesty
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
After an Indigenous Guyanese woman reported that she was drugged and gang-raped at the hotel where she worked and police had no intention of investigating the rape, women took to the streets in protest and solidarity. One local newspaper alleges that police are not investigating the rape…
Gut Feeling
Originally posted on Eponymous Fliponymous:
Today I was working at an event to benefit the local transgender community – a community that intersects with all the other letters of the awkward initialism by which we identify ourselves. We had received a substantial in-kind donation from a person whose transgender child had passed on. When I…
There’s No Comparing Male and Female Harassment Online
Forging the liberty to love
Originally posted on One nation…many bodies…boundless faith:
This Independence Day, the Prime Minister will make a lofty speech about equality, diversity, discrimination, inclusion, nation-building and progress. Two friends of mine, one from Central, one from South, will likely not notice. But they will probably take a bitter moment on August 31st to think…
Diary of a mothering worker. July 8, 2014.
Originally posted on grrlscene:
Post 153. Why pursue what many consider a lost cause? Battles that seem like they are no longer or never were worthwhile, ones you can expect to be opposed by the majority or by Goliaths around you, ones about which too few seem to care. Should you simply abandon struggles you…
A Wing & A Prayer
Originally posted on Feminist Activism:
So much has gone on in June I can’t even keep up with my emails, let alone blog to you about all of it. But, while watching a female fan of Costa Rica sob in the stands of the World Cup after Greece scored, it struck me that many of…
Guys, Can We Please, For Two Weeks …
I blew my stack on Facebook this morning, after reading one of the many threads where women are trying to have a conversation around the Isla Vista shooting and the #YesAllWomen hashtag campaign. I blew my stack because there are two things derailing these conversations. One is misogynist men trying deliberately to derail, deny and…
Why I teach my children about enthusiastic consent
“I want my daughter and son to grow up knowing that they always have the right to refuse any kind of physical contact, and that the same applies to everyone else. “
