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 10 @ 6pm – Reclaiming Human Rights with Gaynel Curry