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Feminist Book Club: February 2026

For February’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark.

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, author P. Djèlí Clark spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. When not writing speculative fiction, he works as an academic historian whose research spans comparative slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic World.

From the author:

D. W. Griffith is a sorcerer, and The Birth of a Nation is a spell that drew upon the darkest thoughts and wishes from the heart of America. Now, rising in power and prominence, the Klan has a plot to unleash Hell on Earth.

Luckily, Maryse Boudreaux has a magic sword and a head full of tales. When she’s not running bootleg whiskey through Prohibition Georgia, she’s fighting monsters she calls “Ku Kluxes.” She’s damn good at it, too. But to confront this ongoing evil, she must journey between worlds to face otherworldly nightmares—and her own demons. Together with a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter, Maryse sets out to save a world from the hate that would consume it.

🗓 Wednesday, February 18
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“Ring Shout is a fearless punch to the heart and head! Fantasy, hellacious action, and complex characters along with an unflinching look at the terrifying nature of racism. Highly recommended!”

—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of V-Wars and Black Panther: DoomWar

Get your copy of P. Djèlí Clark’s Ring Shout in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook format and join the discussion!

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Feminist Standards for Governance 2026

 

Equality Bahamas is facilitating a series of workshops to develop Feminist Standards for Governance which which will serve as a people’s agenda for 2026 to 2031. The next general election in The Bahamas looms ahead, and with no fixed election date, it can be called at any time. Political parties will each produce a document with vague statements and promises based on their own priorities and beliefs about the people’s needs, without consultation. We invite you to participate in the development of an alternative to partisan campaign material.

​Equality Bahamas has designed a process to guide groups of people through identifying problems and their roots and working toward recommendations to address the issues at a systemic level. Feminist Standards for Governance workshops have nine streams or thematic areas—health, education, youth, women and LGBTQI+, environment, social services, labor and economy, arts and culture, and governance. We are continuing to facilitate workshops in January and February, building on the people’s agenda we began crafting in 2025.

Our events in January & February 2026 will take place online, and at both The National Art Gallery of  The Bahamas and Poinciana Paper Press. 

Stay up to date with all upcoming Feminist Standards for Governance sessions here.

Jan 31,  11am @ Poinciana Paper Press: Social Services

On Saturday January 31, we’ll be discussing the thematic area of Social Services.

Feb 4, 6pm: @ The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas: Education 

On Wednesday, February 4, we’ll be discussing the thematic area of Education.

Feb 7, 11am @ Poinciana Paper Press: Governance

On Saturday February 7, we’ll be discussing the thematic area of Governance.

Feb 16, Virtual on Zoom @ 6pm: Labor & Economy

On Monday, February 16, join us virtually on Zoom for a discussion on the thematic area of Labor & Economy.

Feb 21,  11am @ Poinciana Paper Press: Environment
On Saturday, February 21, we’ll be discussing the thematic area of Environment.

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Feminist Book Club: January 2026

For our first 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚  of 2026, we’re reading Theory and Practice: A Novel by Michelle de Kretser.

From the publisher:
It’s 1986, and “beautiful, radical ideas” are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a “deconstructed relationship.” They become lovers, and the narrator’s feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf’s diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.

What happens when our desires run contrary to our beliefs? What should we do when the failings of revered figures come to light? Who is shamed when the truth is told? Michelle de Kretser’s new novel offers a spellbinding meditation on the moral complexities that arise in the gap between our values and our lives.

🗓 Wednesday, January 21
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day—questions about the nature of love, art, and desire, about the thorny cultural legacy of colonialism and the unappeasable human yearning for connection.” —Sigrid Nunez, author of The Vulnerables

de Krester’s latest novel has been widely lauded as the Winner of The Stella Prize, A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, A Best Fiction Book of the Year from The Washington Post, A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from Our Culture Magazine, and A Most Anticipated Book of the Year from The Millions.

Get it in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook format and join the discussion!

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16 Days of Activism 2025 Recap: Reclaiming Our Rights

Every year, Equality Bahamas hosts a series of events during the Global 16 Days Campaign (also known as 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence) every year. This year, our theme was is Reclaiming Our Rights.

This year, over the course of 16 days from November 25 to December 10, we explored this theme with local Bahamian, Caribbean, and global activists and experts and a variety of events in-person in Nassau and online.

November 26 – Reclaiming Memory with The Bahamas National Reparations Committee

Our first event was with the Chair of The Bahamas National Reparations Committee. At the Future of Democracy Conference in October 2025, there was a session that focused on the “forgetting” that has taken place and is taking place among Afro-descendant people in The Bahamas and what the means for the national and regional demand for reparations. We talked about the need to (re)connect with our shared history and memory, understanding its relevance to where we are today, the challenges we face, and how we move forward in demanding our rights and reparations.

Watch the replay here.

November 27 – Two-Faced: Gender Inequality in The Bahamas – Film Screening

​Despite marketing itself as a world-class tourist destination and the gem of the Caribbean, The Bahamas has had the highest incidence of rape per capita in the WORLD consistently since 2007. Two-Faced: Gender Inequality in The Bahamas, a Gina Rodgers-Sealy film, is a documentary that explores this rape culture, a constitution that discriminates against women, the lack of women’s right in the country, their refusal to criminalize marital rape and the root cause of gender inequality in the country. We hosted this screening at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.

December 2 – Reclaiming Power: All We Want is Everything with Soraya Chemaly

The author’s latest book, All We Want is Everything, is a bold and urgent call to name and dismantle the systems that diminish our lives and to reimagine a world built on justice, care, and collective power. From private relationships to global politics, Chemaly shows how naming and refusing male supremacy is essential to resisting the forces tearing democracy apart.

 

December 3  – Reclaiming Recovery: People-Centered Disaster Preparedness

In September 2019, The Bahamas experienced the devastation of category five Hurricane Dorian. In October 2025, category five Hurricane Jamaica devastated Jamaica. As recovery efforts continue, it is becoming increasingly clear that people experience climate disaster differently. Women and girls, people with disabilities, LGBTQI+ people, elderly people, migrant people, and people experiencing poverty are among those who are disproportionately affected by disruption in electricity and water supply, displacement, loss of identity documents, and loss of employment.

​Yemi Knight and Kendria Ferguson engaged us in conversation about disaster preparedness and the measures we need to take to ensure that it is inclusive, considering the specific circumstances of people who are situations of vulnerability and increased risk.

Watch the replay here. 

December 4  – Tiny Movements – A Film Screening and Discussion

We were honoured to have Director Laura Sweeney and Jenn Green, subject of the documentary, for a screening of this powerful short film about surviving domestic partner violence. The virtual screening was followed by a discussion. 

This documentary is the telling of the story of her creation of Tiny Kitchen Dances project, her healing as she navigates the ongoing legal battle to protect herself and her children, the journey to hold her abuser accountable within the legal justice system, and moving forward as she works to rebuild her chosen life. Tiny Movements was played for the virtual audience, but is not available for on-demand viewing at this time.

Watch the replay here. 

December 6 – Reclaiming Stories: An Erasure Poetry Workshop with Sonia Farmer

​Erasure poetry is the act of removing text from recorded material to create a new narrative. In this workshop at Poinciana Paper Press, we used texts around us–books, official reports, newspaper articles, speeches, manifestos, declarations, manuals, transcriptions, etc–to experiment with this technique.

December 6 – Reclaiming the Workplace with Suman Saurav & Keisha Ellis

​Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the changes it brought to the economy and the workplace, The Bahamas’ ratification of the International Labor Organization’s Convention 190 on Eliminating Violence and Harassment in the Workplace, and recent labor unrest in The Bahamas, we facilitated a conversation about the workplace, our rights, and our power to transform the space through coalition, leadership, law, policy, and practice. We explored the ways people have and can build feminist workplaces and foster solidarity among workers.

Watch the replay here. 

December 6 – Reclaiming Faith

​Christian fundamentalism is rampant in The Bahamas as people weaponize a conservative, violent interpretation of Christianity against people in situations of vulnerability. It is frequently used to prevent progress in recognizing and realizing human rights for all, from the opposition to criminalizing marital rape to disruptions of Pride events. ​In this conversation with people of faith, we talk about human rights, ways to challenge fundamentalisms, and guidance for people want to support those who have been marginalized. We were joined by Noemi Uribe of UUSC and Reverend Jennifer Butler, Founder of Faith in Democracy.

Watch the replay here. 

December 7 – Reclaiming Textiles: A Papermaking Workshop with Sonia Farmer

We had a great time transforming our reclaimed textiles, whether it was a dress you were wearing when you received bad news, the shirt you were wearing when you experienced an act of violence, or a bloodstained pair of pants. We experienced the process of making paper, from shredding and beating the material to forming them anew into sheets of reclaimed paper.

December 9 – Reclaiming Health with Indira Martin

Our health is impacted by genetics and the decisions we make on a daily basis. Dr. Indira Martin is a biomedical scientist and Director of the National Reference Lab. In this discussion,  she shared recent scientific advances related to self efficacy with regard to health. We spoke about epigenetics (and how our genes are altered by environmental factors and traumatic events such as the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Persons), the gut-brain axis, and good practices we can put in place to improve our health.

Watch the replay here. 

December 10 – Reclaiming Human Rights with Gaynel

We closed our Reclaiming Rights series for the Global 16 Days Campaign with a conversation about with Gaynel Curry, human rights expert, head of the law school at University of The Bahamas, and Independent Expert Member of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. The Bahamas has a history of acknowledging and leveraging international human rights standards. One clear example is the Bahamian women’s suffrage movement of the 1950s. Today, anti-rights actors suggest that human rights are foreign. We know, however, that they are universal, and that they need to be promoted, upheld, and expanded at all levels. In this session, Gaynel helped us to see human rights in the Bahamian context and made clear the importance of building a culture of human rights.

Watch the replay here.

16 Days of Activism 2025: Reclaiming Our Rights

Every year, Equality Bahamas hosts a series of events during the Global 16 Days Campaign (also known as 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence) every year. This year, our theme was is Reclaiming Our Rights.

Over the course of 16 days from November 25 to December 10, we will explore this theme with local Bahamian, Caribbean, and global activists and experts and a variety of events in-person in Nassau and online.

Check out all the events at a glance here.

November 26 at 6pm – Reclaiming Memory with The Bahamas National Reparations Committee

At the Future of Democracy conference in October, we talked about the need to (re)connect with our shared history and memory, understanding its relevance to where we are today, the challenges we face, and how we move forward in demanding our rights and reparations. In this virtual session, we will be conversation with the Chair of The Bahamas National Reparations Committee about memory, history, school curricula, and the demand for reparations.

November 27 at 6pm – Two-Faced: Gender Inequality in The Bahamas – Film Screening

​Despite marketing itself as a world-class tourist destination and the gem of the Caribbean, The Bahamas has had the highest incidence of rape per capita in the WORLD consistently since 2007. Two-Faced: Gender Inequality in The Bahamas, a Gina Rodgers-Sealy film, is a documentary that explores this rape culture, a constitution that discriminates against women, the lack of women’s right in the country, their refusal to criminalize marital rape and the root cause of gender inequality in the country. Join us at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas for the screening.

December 2 at 6pm- Reclaiming Power: All We Want is Everything with Soraya Chemaly

The author’s latest book, All We Want is Everything, is a bold and urgent call to name and dismantle the systems that diminish our lives and to reimagine a world built on justice, care, and collective power. From private relationships to global politics, Chemaly shows how naming and refusing male supremacy is essential to resisting the forces tearing democracy apart. Join us for a virtual, interactive discussion on the book’s themes.

December 3 at 6pm – Reclaiming Recovery: People-Centered Disaster Preparedness

Join us for a discussion led by Yemi Knight and Kendria Ferguson on how we can better prepare ourselves, our families, and our communities for natural disasters.

 

December 4 at 6pm – Tiny Movements – A Film Screening and Discussion

Join Director Laura Sweeney and Jenn Green, subject of the documentary, for a screening of this powerful short film about surviving domestic partner violence. The virtual screening will be followed by a discussion. 

 

December 6 at 9:30am – Reclaiming Stories: An Erasure Poetry Workshop with Sonia Farmer

​Erasure poetry is the act of removing text from recorded material to create a new narrative. In this workshop at Poinciana Paper Press, we will use found texts around us–books, official reports, newspaper articles, speeches, manifestos, declarations, manuals, transcriptions, etc–to experiment with this technique.

December 6 at 12pm – Reclaiming the Workplace with Suman Saurav & Keisha Ellis

With Suman Saurav of Comms for A Cause and Keisha Ellis of Hands for Hunger, let’s reclaim and reimagine what work and more equitable, inspiring workplaces could look like.

 

December 6 at 2pm – Reclaiming Faith 

December 7 at 12pm – Reclaiming Textiles: A Papermaking Workshop with Sonia Farmer

​Do you have a piece of clothing you would like to reclaim? Maybe it is the dress you were wearing when you received bad news, the shirt you were wearing when you experienced an act of violence, or a bloodstained pair of pants. Bring them to Poinciana Paper Press to transform them from articles of clothing to paper.

December 9 at 6pm – Reclaiming Health with Indira Martin

December 10 @ 6pm – Reclaiming Human Rights with Gaynel Curry