L.E.M.
(She, her / They, them) L.E.M., also known as Lucia, serves as Intersect Antigua’s resident artist.
Throughout her life, she has possessed a variety of interests, with the most pervading and persisting being in the arts and humanities. In fact, this profound preoccupation has led to her current course of study – Literatures in English and French at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus. Outside of this, she enjoys consuming and creating visual art, and she believes that being invested in these fields – often imbued with facets of the human condition – have only sharpened her feminist and social justice sensibilities and contributed to the continuous expansion and development of her own political worldview.
She believes that art – whether in the form of a painting, a piece of literature, or a film – has many functions; it is dynamic and varied. Regardless of whether the work in question causes a hearty chuckle to bubble up past your lips or saline tears to surge down your face, it always makes you feel something. It is through this emotional provocation that art is able to challenge or connect to its audience. It is able to engender inklings of change and inspire massive social transformations. Art is also a medium through which the disempowered and the underrepresented can share their perspectives and express themselves in unique ways. Art can be entertainment, art can be activism, and art can be transformative. She hopes that, in using her skills, she too can assist Intersect in its activism and make a meaningful contribution to the amplification of Caribbean – especially “queeribbean” – feminist voices.
