16 Days 2023: Healthcare Accessibility: Patient Navigation with Melissa Major

Melissa Major is the Founder and Lead Navigator at MD Patient Navigation. Melissa was involved in the establishment of the National Cancer Registry and formulation of the National Cancer Control Plan.

This, combined with her work and volunteer experience in the healthcare and cancer treatment space, she has deep insight into the needs of patients. Melissa will help us to understand the importance of patient advocacy and dedicated support in navigating healthcare systems in The Bahamas.

This discussion was a part of Equality Bahamas’ annual Global 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence from November 27 – December 10 2023.

For the full list of Global 16 Days Campaign 2023 events and resources, go to tiny.cc/16days23

Watch the replay of the conversation from November 28, 2023 below.

 

16 Days 2023 – Anti: Resisiting, Reclaiming, Restorying with Sonia Farmer

On November 27 at 3pm, join us for a conversation with Sonia Farmer, Founding Director of Poinciana Paper Press, for a conversation about the call for submissions for ANTI. Why this? Why now? What will it do? We’re excited to see the creativity of submissions, and absolutely expecting them shake things up to move the movement for social justice forward.

16 Days 2023 – CEDAW: Notes from a Training with Fran Dillet and Noelle Nicolls

Fran Dillet and Noelle Nicolls participated in an intensive training on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) hosted by Women’s Human Rights Institute at University of Oxford in the fall. In this conversation, they will share the motivations for participating in the training, key takeaways from the training content and engagement with other participants, and their ideas for moving The Bahamas toward full compliance with the Convention, 30 years since ratification.

This discussion took place on November 27, 2023, and was a part of Equality Bahamas’ annual Global 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence from November 27 – December 10 2023.

For the full list of Global 16 Days Campaign 2023 events and resources, go to tiny.cc/16days23

Watch the full conversation below.

16 Days of Activism 2023: Femicide & Care

The Global 16 Days Campaign was started in 1991 by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. The 16-day period starts on November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and ends on December 10, International Human Rights Day. As a part of its strategy to end gender-based violence, Equality Bahamas participates in this campaign with a series of events.

This year, we continue addressing the issue of #femicide and facilitating conversations about care, taking time to reflect on the influence of media, discuss what it means to be in community and imagine what global solidarity looks like.

Equality Bahamas is hosting virtual events, which include conversations about femicide, care models to respond to gender-based violence, healthcare accessibility and yoga nidra.

Event details, along with the bios of participants and the registration links, are here: http://tiny.cc/16days23

16 Days Events:

November 27, 10 am – On the Clock with Erin Greene featuring Lauren Glinton, Guardian Radio 96.9, guardiantalkradio.com

November 27, 6 pm – CEDAW: Notes From a Training with Fran Dillet and Noelle Nicolls

November 29, 6pm – GBV Research: Toward a Coordinated Care Model with Étoile Pinder

December 3, 10am – Healthcare Accessibility: Patient Navigation with Melissa Major

December 5, 6pm – Gender-Based Violence, Trauma, and Healing with Helen Klonaris, Carla Moore, Jessica Russell

December 6, 6pm – Femicide: What’s in a Word? With Megan Walker

December 7, 6pm – Yoga Nidra with Monique Miller

December 10, 3pm – Palestine: From 1948 to Now with Falastine Dwikat

Feminist Book Club: November 2023

Our November read is Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. The book follows multiple Black women’s experiences in Britain, exploring the intersections of identity and the legacy of British colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean.

Join us for another thoughtful gathering Thursday November 16, 6pm at @poincianapaperpress , 12 Parkgate Road.

Register to join in-person or virtually: tiny.cc/fbc2023

 

Fighting For Full Citizenship: Nationality, Borders, Bodies And Women’s Autonomy

Events

The Bahamas is one of 25 countries in the world that still have gender-unequal nationality laws, preventing women from passing on citizenship to their children.

On October 28 2023, The Global Campaign for Equal National Rights co-sponsored “Fighting for Full Citizenship: Nationality, Borders, Bodies And Women’s Autonomy,” a session at the Global South Women’s Forum. Alicia Wallace, Director of Equality Bahamas, moderated the conversation with Neha Gurung (Nepal), Karima Chebbo (Lebanon), Nokuthula Mamba (Eswatini), and Patricia Low (Malaysia) about working towards gender-equal nationality rights and how discriminatory laws are often framed as “border control,” resulting in women characterized as threats to “border protection.”

Watch the replay of the panel below.

For the full program for the Global South Women’s Forum, visit: gswf.iwraw-ap.org

Feminist Book Club: October 2023

Feminist Book Club

Feminist Book ClubFor October, we are reading Sista Sister by Candice Brathwaite. Candice delivers a candid account of the advice she needed growing up as a young Black girl in London. Touching on everything from Black hair and fashion to dealing with racism and colorism, this book may resonate with you.

Join us for a discussion Wednesday October 18 at Poinciana Paper Press

To register or join virtually: visit: tiny.cc/fbc2023

Feminist Book Club: September 2023

Feminist Book Club  has been reading Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi (author of You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty and The Death of Vivek Oji) this month. Bitter is thrilled to be attending Eucalyptus, a school for talented teen artists. The school is a refuge for her. Her friends, however, are paying attention to what is happening outside of those walls and determined to become a part of the revolution. What is she to do?

Read with us! We’ll discuss Bitter on Thursday, September 21 at 6pm, Poinciana Paper Press (12 Parkgate Road) and online. Register at tiny.cc/fbc2023 for more information.

Feminist Book Club: August 2023

Join us on Thursday, August 24 at 6pm EDT for Feminist Book Club with Poinciana Paper Press! We’re reading Assembly by Natasha Brown.

Sign up at tiny.cc/fbc2023 for updates and to get the link to our next meeting which will be virtual only.

Next month, we’re reading Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi (they/them), in case you need to order it or like having a longer time to read and think about books.

 

CEDAW Speaker Series: Article 12 with Genoveva Tisheva

Genoveva Tisheva, Vice-Chair of the CEDAW Committee, led a conversation on CEDAW Article 12 on Health on August 12, 2023.

The CEDAW (Convention) Speaker Series is designed to familiarize members of the public with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), known as the women’s bill of rights.

Each month, we will be joined by an expert to look at one Article of the Convention, its interpretation, its application to the Bahamian context, and the most recent assessment of the country’s progress.

Watch the replay of the session below, which took place on August 12, 2023.

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW): https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/ProfessionalInterest/cedaw.pdf

 

Check out the CEDAW speaker series playlist below for more discussions on the articles.