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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Good Hair
Colourism Rhonda Williams aka Indira Wills Colourism Rhonda Williams aka Indira Wills

Good Hair

Good Hair speaks to the upliftment and love for all women of colour. The influence of colourism and hair type bias has been an ugly remnant of a social conditioning adopted from slavery that is still very much alive and well today. 

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Passing Through
Growing up Queer Ethan Knowles Growing up Queer Ethan Knowles

Passing Through

It was not until my third affair (the wrench in my relationship with Despair), that I began souveniring. In some ways the habit snuck up on me and in some ways it did not. In some ways it was entirely haphazard, wild and almost beyond my control. In some ways, I was totally in control

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Belonging To Barbuda
Colourism Barbara Arrindell Colourism Barbara Arrindell

Belonging To Barbuda

Sally: You bring me here to ask foolish questions like that? You think anybody take time to tell enslaved people when and where they born? Many of us didn’t even know who bring us into this world, but not my children. I made sure that they grew up with me and that they knew their father.

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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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Un/furled
Growing up Queer Akilah Growing up Queer Akilah

Un/furled

My doormmates whispered about “the lesbian book”. When I told my church youth group my mother had transferred me to an all girls boarding school the elder boys regaled everyone with tales about the lesbians there who used bottles as substitute dildos.

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Open Secrets
Growing up Queer David Simon Growing up Queer David Simon

Open Secrets

Since I last saw you I’ve been thinking. Thinking about you. Thinking about us, about home, about those kids whose journey mirrors yours and mine, A journey walking with fear. 

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