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The most powerful call to action ever! Love and a shoe box: A million lessons on life, love, social justice & community from Trinidad and Tobago’s Verna St.Rose Greaves. Feminist, activist, mother, social worker, former Minister of Gender. MUST WATCH.
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In Therapy: Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet...
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your…
“ It was also reported that discrimination based on “age, sex, area of residence, religion, disability, sexuality, migrant status or HIV status”, and that the attitudes of people toward “sex workers, the disabled, Rastafari, gays, the homeless, people living with HIV/AIDS, to mention some … meant lack of access to several public amenities and services, and therefore limited their ability to enhance their living conditions”. ”
A get-out-of-jail-free card for rapists in the Caribbean?
CODE RED talks rape and access to justice in this article about rapists avoiding custodial sentences. Follow us on twitter.
Women's History Month: A Celebration of HERstory
This International Women’s Day, March 8, I encourage black women to create, act and stand in solidarity with our sisters throughout the Diaspora – La Red de las Mujeres Afro (The Network for Black Women) in Latin America, the African Indigenous Women’s Organization and CODE RED for Gender Justice in the Caribbean –who also work to reclaim their history and tell their stories in their words and on their own terms.
“ Very often child support is painted as a battleground between women and men. This bypasses the role the courts play in reproducing the class system as well as reproducing gender ideologies, resulting in negative outcomes for both women and men. All of these issues are erased in favour of an ongoing theme of how women themselves, disadvantage men. ”
Caribbean Images
Calling all Caribbean people in the region & diaspora! Share your 1 billion rising photos with each other by joining our Caribbean flickr pool. follow us on twitter @redforgender
1 Billion Rising #30 by arichards63 - smile if you missed me on Flickr.
One Caribbean Rising! Visit http://www.flickr.com/groups/catchafyah/pool/
for images of 1 Billion Rising activities from across the Caribbean.
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1 Billion Rising-2 by arichards63 - smile if you missed me on Flickr.
One Caribbean Rising! Visit http://www.flickr.com/groups/catchafyah/pool/
for images of 1 Billion Rising activities from across the Caribbean.
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The media’s recourse to a love story framing suggests that this is a logic that is shared by or at least intelligible to the public. Love and violence go hand in hand. “Love” allows men who commit violence to distance themselves from that violence and hold their partners responsible for it.
Often when domestic violence is talked about you hear very little about love beyond the oft-repeated “some women believe that if he don’t beat me he don’t love me.” Perhaps we need to examine love more closely and figure out just why our understanding of love encompasses ownership, violence and coercion. What role does “love” play in child sexual abuse and early sexual initiation in the Caribbean? What do we mean by love and do women and men, boys and girls have different understandings of love? What is the relationship between love and relations of power based on gender, age etc? Is love itself a relation of power?
”“ Everybody should be outraged when schoolgirls are sexually harassed in the street and on public transportation, when women are killed by their intimate partners, when police officers turn away rape survivors for being naked, when payments are accepted in lieu of prosecution in cases of child sexual abuse, when our legal system supports this form of injustice, when deputy commissioners of police suggest that teen girls are the ones responsible for the sexual crimes against them. Everybody should be outraged. Not just women. Not just the handful of women parliamentarians. Not just overworked and underfunded women’s organisations. EVERYBODY. And that includes men who for too long have been shamefully silent. ”
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Anthropologist: Poor Jamaican mothers fail to breastfeed, neglect sons, turn them into rapists
CODE RED is a feminist collective of Caribbean women and men. Follow us on twitter.
“Avoid the friend zone. Offer her a real drink.”
Caribbean advertisers use rape to sell rum to young men.
CODE RED is a feminist collective of Caribbean women and men. Follow us on twitter.
