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…
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...
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...
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...
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...
Understanding the ‘Why’: Discussions on Laissez-Faire Misogyny and the Uptick in GBV During COVID
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...
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...
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…
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...
Maintaining Menstruals and Mentals: The Reality of the much mocked ‘mood swings’ at the Intersection of Mental and Menstrual Health
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sex Work is Real Work: The need for Rights and Inclusion
By Shanna-Kay Gillespie
Sex work is the exchange of sexual services, production and material consumption. Forms of sex work include...
Cultural Policy: Attempts to reconstruct Caribbeanness
By Shari Bissoondatt
The Caribbean’s cultural identity has been prescribed by its colonial masters. Because of this, the region suffers...
Where Haiti is today and the role CARICOM can play in its future.
By Marc Skinner and Anderson Pierre
According to an IHSI report published in 2015, the Haitian population is estimated at 10,911,819...
Accessing Health Care while being a Gender and Sexual Minority
By Vandana M Kissoon
Access to proper healthcare services and facilities may arguably be one of the most important aspects of human...
Exploring Queer Caribbean Leaders in Pride
By Shanna-kay Gillespie
The Caribbean for some is often seen as a place for relaxation, serenity/ peace however this can be quite the...
Decolonising Queerness
By Kela S. Roberts
Queerness, exists in the nebulous space between reality and an almost alien fiction in the Caribbean region. It is...