Consequences of Revolution: Cuba from 1950 to Today

U.S. aggression against Cuba is intensifying, even as the news fails to cover it in detail. The US hostility is not only against Cuba, but it is part of a long history of imperialism and punishment of countries with resources, recognition of their own rights, and refusal to retreat.

Join Equality Bahamas for a conversation with the Ambassador for Cuba, Juan Carlos, on Wednesday, June 24th at 6pm live on Instagram – ​@equality242​. We will explore:

– the history of Cuba and the U.S. relations
– development of industry in Cuba
– relations with oil economies
– delusions of destroying Cuba
– supporting the resistance and building international solidarity

Make sure you’re following us ​@equality242​ on Instagram and tune in Wednesday evening!

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Feminist Book Club: July 2026

For July’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna.

From the publisher:

As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules…with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos “pretending” to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.

But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and… Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he’s concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat.

🗓 Wednesday, July 15
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“This whimsical romance is full of quirky, lovable characters who will charm even the grumpiest of readers. It’s an enchanting story that brings to life the wonders of finally finding your people and letting love find you.” – The Washington Post

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Feminist Book Club: June 2026

For June’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief, by Tessa McWatt.

We selected this one as it was the overall winner of the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. A Guyanese-born Canadian writer and professor, Tessa McWatt is the author of seven novels and two books for young people.

From the publisher:

As her mother’s dementia advances and she can no longer live independently, Tessa McWatt confronts personal and political losses, and finds herself wandering in a forest asking, how do we grieve? And what can we learn from nature and those whose communities are rooted in nature about not only how to grieve but also how to live?

From the newest seedling to the oldest snag in the forest, there is meaning to be found in every stage of a tree’s life, all of which contribute to a thriving forest community. In this forest thinking, Tessa begins to find answers to her questions about how to live (for each other), how to grieve (radically), and how to die (with love and connection).

🗓 Wednesday, June 17
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“Investigating the question of how we grieve, McWatt adeptly connects the personal and the political, the local and the global. In doing so, she illustrates how they are inextricably linked. . . . Her prose enacts her thematic interest in interdependence. . . . A heartfelt affirmation of the potential of storytelling to make connections and imagine better futures.” —The Conversation

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Zine-making session: Feminist Standards for Governance

Let’s spread the word about the people’s agenda for 2026-2031! Pitch in and help us design and fold a series of one-page zines containing the key issues and solutions from several thematic areas developed by the residents of The Bahamas and facilitated by Equality Bahamas to hold our elected officials accountable!

🗓 Tuesday, May 12
🕑 2-7pm (drop-in)
📍Poinciana Paper Press, ​12 Parkgate Road​.

Feminist Standards for Governance: A People’s Agenda for 2026-2031 is a set of demands for the Government of The Bahamas to serve the people. In a series of workshops from 2021 to 2026, members of the public identified issues of national concern, connected them with systems, named responsible parties, and developed recommendations that address the issues along with their systemic roots. This people’s agenda is evidence of our collective interest in co-creating the future through active participation in governance.

Learn more about Feminist Standards for Governance here.

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Feminist Book Club: May 2026

For May’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders, by Sarah Aziza.

Distinguished with several accolades – longlisted for the Palestine Book Awards, named a Best New Book by the San Francisco Chronicle and Elle, and named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture – it is a book that goes far beyond the constraints of traditional memoir. 

From the author:

Published in April 2025, The Hollow Half is a genre-bending, multi-generational memoir which weaves the lives of three Palestinians from Gaza, to the Midwest, to New York City, and beyond, probing themes of diaspora, erasure, mental health, and resilience.

Alexander Chee has called the book “astonishing. . . a blazing, hard-won triumph,” while Hala Alyan writes, “Through stunning, transformative prose, Aziza writes both herself—and the reader—towards liberation.”

🗓 Wednesday, May 20
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“In breathtaking prose, Palestinian American journalist Sarah Aziza confronts the looming specter of death in various forms. She writes movingly about recovering from an eating disorder that nearly killed her and delves into her family’s history and what it means to be the descendant of refugees from Gaza.” —Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle

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Feminist Book Club: April 2026

For April’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority, edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi.

Named Best Recent Poetry by The Guardian, this collection features voices from the African, Asian and Caribbean diaspora coming together to celebrate nature in all its forms.

From the publisher:

There has been a welcome surge of nature writing in recent years. Yet this has raised questions as to whose voices are privileged and heard in a space predominantly occupied by Western European traditions and authors. In Nature Matters, poets Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf seek to redress this imbalance.

Their genre-enriching anthology presents brand-new commissions alongside formative works from the past fifty years that invite us to reconsider nature poetry from global-majority perspectives. Image-rich and formally diverse, the poems explore fundamental and ecological themes including climate crisis and the Anthropocene; urban nature, solitude and alienation; protest and radical empathy; Indigenous wisdom and alternative histories.

🗓 Wednesday, April 22
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.

“An exquisitely profound and groundbreaking testament to our natural world by many of the most powerful poetic voices of our times.” –Bernardine Evaristo

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Feminist Book Club: March 2026

For March’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading All We Want Is Everything by Soraya Chemaly

Remember when we had a discussion with Soraya Chemaly about The Resilience Myth during the Global 16 Days Campaign in 2024? If you found that informative and transformative to the way you see the world, you definitely want to pick up All We Want is Everything.

Get the book in hardcopy, ebook, or audio format and join 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚 for the discussion.

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

From the publisher:
All We Want Is Everything offers both unflinching analysis and genuine hope, informed by the bold and revolutionary potential of feminist imagination. From private relationships to global politics, Chemaly shows how naming and refusing male supremacy is essential to resisting the forces tearing democracy apart. This fresh, timely, clear-eyed, and necessary manifesto is a call to refuse supremacist identities, relationships, and values in order to build more just, healthy, and sustainable worlds for everyone.

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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

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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.

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