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Feminist Book Club: January 2025

New year, new books!

💖📚Feminist Book Club📚💖 continues in 2025, hosted by Equality Bahamas and Poinciana Paper Press on the third Wednesday of the month at 6pm. This month, we’re meeting a bit later as everyone recovers from the holiday season.

Join us in reading and discussing The Vegetarian by Han Kang.

After having strange nightmares, a woman decides to stop eating meat. Her family tries to exert control over her, she resists, and violence ensues.

The Guardian said, “Dark dreams, simmering tensions, chilling violence . . . This South Korean novel is a feast. . . . It is sensual, provocative and violent, ripe with potent images, startling colors and disturbing questions. . . . Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience.”

Join us for the discussion this month:
📅 Wednesday, January 22 at 6pm.

REGISTER: tiny.cc/fbc2025

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Women’s Wednesdays: NHI: Making It Work for You

Join us for a conversation with @nhibahamas about National Health Insurance, including what we need to do to sign up and the details on the benefits to us. Healthcare is not just important.

Healthcare is critical. We need to know our options for accessing care and how we can prepare ourselves for changes in our health and healthcare needs. NHI Benefits and Enrolment Supervisor Tanisha Pinder will guide us through it.

 

Femicide in the Caribbean with Taitu Heron

​Femicide is the killing of a woman or girl because of her sex or gender. The term is not used in The Bahamas or the rest of the Caribbean which means the killings of women and girls are not properly counted or analyzed. We’ll be in conversation with Taitu Heron about her research on femicide in select countries in the Caribbean. We are sure to get into cases of femicide, including at least one that resulted from neglect by the State. We are looking forward to finding a way forward in research on femicide and ensuring that cases are recorded and the analysis contributes to the work to prevent femicide and gender-based violence.

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Managing Disasters with Barrise Griffin

Barrise Griffin is the Master of Disaster, so we’ll be in conversation with her about disaster management, focusing on disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. We know that it cannot be about individual actions, contingent on our limited resources, but has to be systemic and for the benefit of all. Join us in learning about existing systems and what we still need to build.

#16daysofactivism

Channeling Rage: A Theatre Workshop with Paula Hamilton-Smith

​Rage may not come easily to women and girls who have been trained and pressured to avoid it at all costs. Even those of us who experience it may struggle to express it. Let’s enter the world of theater! Trinidadian actor and theater teacher Paula Hamilton Smith facilitated a workshop to help us to get comfortable with feeling rage and letting it out. Let’s get loud!

Leveraging CEDAW for Resilient Systems with Marion Bethel

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is known as the bill of women’s rights, and it was ratified by The Bahamas in 1993. Marion Bethel recently completed her second and final term as a CEDAW Committee Member, reviewing UN Member States, assessing their progress toward compliance, and making recommendations. We were in conversation with Marion Bethel about the basics of CEDAW, ways to use it in our advocacy, and the importance of building systems that make it unnecessary for us, as individuals, to be “strong,” “resilient,” and able to “bounce back” on our own.

#16daysofactivism

Questioning Climate Resilience with Marjahn Finlayson

“Resilience” is a buzzword in the climate space, more and more, adaptation and mitigation prove insufficient as we experience more devastating climate disasters at higher frequencies than ever before. We were in conversation with Marjahn Finlayson about the problem with the dominant framings of resilience, particularly for The Bahamas, the Caribbean, and Small Island Developing States. We spoke about climate financing, false solutions, the responsibility of individuals to be smarter, better, more conscious consumers, and the functions and benefits of community.

 

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Rage is a Catalyst with Erika Robinson

Women and girls are steered away from rage throughout our lives. We are told that it is not only dangerous, but masculine—reserved for men. We are allowed sadness, but not rage. What does it mean to reclaim access to that emotion? How can we identify it, feel it, and turn it into something powerful for ourselves and our communities? We were in conversation with Erika Robinson about using rage as catalyst for personal freedom and collective liberation.

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Through Rage to Activism

Rage is a powerful force that we can harness for impactful work in our communities. Psychotherapist and activist Patrice Daniel (Barbados), therapist Jessica Russell (Grand Bahama), and human rights advocate Erin Greene (New Providence) was in conversation about how rage is perceived, experienced and expressed, who is allowed to have it, how it can be useful to us, and how we can embrace rage and make it a catalyst for action.

#16daysofactivism

For the full list of Global 16 Days Campaign 2024 events and resources, go to https://lu.ma/16days24.

Resilience and Other Myths with Soraya Chemaly

Our Global #16Days Campaign events began on November 25 at 6pm EST with a conversation with feminist, activist, and author Soraya Chemaly on her new book, The Resilience Myth, along with Rage Becomes Her, and the learnings and ideas we can apply to the feminist and women’s rights movements as we work to build community.

We spoke about the importance of resisting the idea and expectation that we must all struggle alone to “bounce back” from trauma. We also looked at rage as a positive force that can fuel our activism.

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For the full list of Global 16 Days Campaign 2024 events and resources, go to https://lu.ma/16days24.