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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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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Naima
Carnival Bodies Nneka Nicholas Carnival Bodies Nneka Nicholas

Naima

She would not allow the creeping doubts from the previous months to dampen her spirit. Not while she had the rum in her system. She bobbed and weaved to make her feathers dance some more and so the stage lights could pick up the glitter on her skin

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