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Aug 20, 20245 min read
From Education to Legislation: Menstrual Health Education and Free Period Product Legislation's role developing Caribbean students
In the Caribbean, social norms and economic disparities often intersect, like, the importance of menstrual health education and access to...
Aug 6, 20243 min read
Break the Stigma, Pass the Pad: Paving a Period-Friendly T&T for Students
Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – 7th August 2024 Feminitt Caribbean is excited to announce the launch of “Break the Stigma, Pass the...
Aug 5, 20245 min read
CSE: Bridging the gap between workplace policy and practice
As a master’s student in a Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P) program, I’m invested in how organizations can create...
Jul 15, 20247 min read
Foreign Capital: Hurricane Beryl and the Intersections of Climate Justice and Gender Justice
Throughout the week that Hurricane Beryl passed through the Caribbean, I was lucky enough to not be there at the time. However a whole...
Jun 4, 20243 min read
Imagining an equitable period-friendly Trinidad and Tobago
A transformative future reflects significant change – leading to improved well-being, equity, sustainability, and progress for all people...
Jun 29, 20233 min read
Re-envisioning HFLE in the Caribbean
To re-envision Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) in the Caribbean is to move the well-intentioned and established educational...
Jun 15, 20233 min read
Under the Careful, Watchful Eye: Body Image, Body Acceptance and CSE
At a younger age than we care to admit, the changing bodies of adolescents are the subject of undue scrutiny. The intrusive discussions...
May 5, 20234 min read
Everything’s fine!: Testing & the Sexual Invincibility Fallacy
People like sex. They like talking about it, thinking about it, having it or planning to have it. Honestly, a lot of our adult lives...
Apr 10, 20234 min read
Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy in Your Community
By Dr. Maurice Frank Adolescent pregnancy will significantly impact and impede the social and mental development of girls. It can even...
Jan 24, 20232 min read
An Investment for the Present and for the Future: Comprehensive Sexuality Education
This year, the theme of International Education Day is “to invest in people, prioritize education”. Investing in people is not an...
Sep 27, 20223 min read
Period Inclusivity: Gender Inclusive Menstruation by Apphia Barton
Oxford Languages, Google’s English Dictionary provider, i.e. the provider of Google’s definition search results online, prefaces the...
Mar 28, 20224 min read
SRHR and Queerness: Destigmatising for a Safer, Healthier Way Forward
By Kela S. Roberts It is a truth well understood that SRHR knowledge and accessibility is crucial to the health and preservation of the...
Mar 7, 20225 min read
Sexual and Reproductive Health Relations in the Caribbean: What is its currency?
By Nyala Thompson Grunwald It is legally recognised that every person has a right to proper healthcare, a right to proper sexual and...
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the Caribbean: What are those?!
By Vandana Manisha Kissoon Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is a concept which has been explored for decades. It is the...
Jan 12, 20224 min read
Combatting Period Poverty at Work
By Princess Avianne Charles Period poverty remains a global issue, negatively impacting the lives of people who menstruate daily. As...
Dec 7, 20213 min read
Intimate Partner Violence: Turning Inward to Community
By Deon J. Foster Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is, according to the CDC, abuse or aggression that occurs specifically within romantic...
Nov 29, 20215 min read
Roots of GBV: Exploring Normalized Pedophilia in the Caribbean
By Judy Liverpool With the 16 Days of Activism in full swing, focusing on Gender-Based Violence, I have been thinking of the ways in...
Nov 23, 20217 min read
Altering Gender-Based Violence and Trauma
By Nyala Thompson Grunwald Disclaimer: This article contains language and descriptions of physical and sexual violence that may be...
Nov 8, 20216 min read
Understanding the ‘Why’: Discussions on Laissez-Faire Misogyny and the Uptick in GBV dur
By Kela S. Roberts It’s an interesting thing to ask ourselves, the ‘why’, of violence. We understand, to an extent, the why of ‘getting...
Nov 1, 20214 min read
Locked In and Locked Up: Gender-Based Violence and the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Ashlee A. Burnett Global crises have a way of removing the rose coloured lenses from the eyes of the population as it forces us to...
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