Women’s Wednesdays: Pleasure as a Right and Resource

This session with Carla Moore originally took place March 4, 2021.

We have a right to pleasure. We need to spend more time finding, creating, feeling, and sharing pleasure. It’s time to think about what brings us pleasure and how we can have more of it. Pleasure is not only what feels good to us, but what helps us to understand what is wrong and how to approach it. This month, we are looking at a pleasure as a practice and resource, and as a lens to revisit critical issues such as marital rape and women’s unpaid labor. Life coach, academic, and activist Carla Moore will get us started with the personal, and from International Women’s Day forward, we will get deeper into the political.

– What are the sources of your pleasure?
– How do you create pleasure for yourself, and how do you choose to share it with others?
– What would you explore if you had permission?
– What old messages are you still grappling with that have limited your pleasure?

Women’s Wednesdays was founded by Equality Bahamas as a response to community members’ requests for a space to access resources, experts, and practitioners, share knowledge, and engage in conversation with one another. Officially started in May 2017, Women’s Wednesdays highlights Bahamian women and our experiences in The Bahamas, specific to our identities including gender, race, sexuality, age, and ability. Held once per month at minimum, the events draw women together to have conversations that bring our individual lives into focus while connecting to family, community, and national narratives.

#WW242 intentionally centers and prioritizes women and girls, and is open to the public through in-person events, livestreams, and social media activity. With the support of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, we create a safe space for knowledge-building, idea-sharing, critical dialogue, and movement-building.

Inspired by Equality Bahamas’ Women’s Wednesdays, there is now a similar initiative in Guyana, and other countries in the Caribbean are expected to follow
Watch the replay of the session below.