Body
This Is Not Love Tricia Sharpe This Is Not Love Tricia Sharpe

Body

I wonder if you would still love her

If she had no body

No female physical attributes for you men to gaze at

No Instagram picture to hit the love button

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Coolieween
This Is Not Love Tifa Wine/Ryan Persadie This Is Not Love Tifa Wine/Ryan Persadie

Coolieween

The names listed here are just a mere fragment of the lists upon lists of diasporic Indo-Caribbean women who have been injured, harmed, and murdered at the hands of heteropatriarchal power – whether that be in the form of their parents, community members, or even intimate partners.

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Forgiveness
This Is Not Love Nneka Nicholas This Is Not Love Nneka Nicholas

Forgiveness

As Shea sat in the pew listening to Father Lewis preach about forgiveness, her mind wandered back to the trial. Fr. Lewis was getting into the throes of the sermon and showed no signs of letting up any time soon. She allowed her thoughts to drift.

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Becoming Rage
This Is Not Love Jacinth Browne-Howard This Is Not Love Jacinth Browne-Howard

Becoming Rage

Tantie Mary say that since me feel me a big woman now, to gwan and don’t comeback. The words still ring in my head three weeks later. My last image of Hibiscus Road featured the woman who raised me.

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Take Me or Leave Me
This Is Not Love Lexington Wilks This Is Not Love Lexington Wilks

Take Me or Leave Me

Maybe this is the time to come clean. This is the salvation, the sign she had been beseeching the universe for the last four years. Or maybe this is a trap. To admit the abuse, would be to admit her weakness. 

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She Who Has Found Herself
This Is Not Love Denise Westfield This Is Not Love Denise Westfield

She Who Has Found Herself

Sitting straight-backed on a cluster of smooth rocks, not too far from Jonita, was a breadnut-brown woman with a sprawling afro enclosed in a circle of plaits decorated with iridescent shells at the base, and a lush body with a waist that curved into…

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