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...
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- Mar 7, 2022
- 5 min
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...
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feminitt
- Mar 1, 2022
- 3 min
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...
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feminitt
- Jan 12, 2022
- 4 min
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...
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feminitt
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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feminitt
- Nov 29, 2021
- 5 min
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...
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feminitt
- Nov 23, 2021
- 7 min
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...
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feminitt
- Nov 8, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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feminitt
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
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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feminitt
- Oct 25, 2021
- 4 min
Adolescent Pregnancy Intervention: The Need for Comprehensive Sexuality Education
By Vandana M. Kissoon Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Week is celebrated during the month of October annually. The aim of this is to...
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feminitt
- Oct 18, 2021
- 5 min
Check yuh Bits: Breast Health and Breast Cancer Awareness
By Nyala Thompson Grunwald Women account for 14% – 30% of breast cancer deaths in the Caribbean. For the purposes of this article, when I...
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feminitt
- Oct 11, 2021
- 6 min
Maintaining Menstruals and Mental: The Reality of the much mocked ‘mood swings’ at the I
By Kela S. Roberts It’s something you really can’t explain. Language, as useful as it might be, can’t really encapsulate the phantom...
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feminitt
- Oct 4, 2021
- 4 min
Filling the Gaps: Improving Our Approach to SRHR
By Vandana M Kissoon Intergovernmental and humanitarian organizations have been lobbying for the implementation of comprehensive sexual...
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feminitt
- Sep 27, 2021
- 5 min
Mythbusting Xenophobic Stereotypes in Trinidad and Tobago
By Judy Liverpool As a country that prides itself on inclusion and diversity, where it’s even mentioned in our national anthem, “where...
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feminitt
- Sep 20, 2021
- 5 min
Shifting Planes, Shifting Tides: Migration and Healthcare Access
By Nyala Thompson Grunwald Accessibility, affordability, acceptability. According to Yip-Ching Yu’s citation of the World Health...
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feminitt
- Sep 13, 2021
- 7 min
Stories from the Waterfronts- Migration, Sex Workers and Trinbagonian Culture
By Kela S. Roberts “We were waiting at the beach around 3am, everyone is soaking wet, the girls are tired, but we couldn’t rest we had to...
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