Activist: Watson’s comments demoralizing (The Nassau Guardian)

Oct. 18, 2022 – The Nassau Guardian

Equality Bahamas founder and co-director, Alicia Wallace featured in The Nassau Guardian on October 18, 2022.

From The Nassau Guardian:

Women’s groups in the country have long advocated for the criminalization of marital rape. In 2022 alone, The Nassau Guardian has published multiple letters to the editor and carried several stories from activists calling on the government to act or give an opinion on the issue.

“It can be quite demoralizing, you know, if you are putting all of your energy and heart and soul and, in many cases, a lot of your money into your advocacy, into activism, into educating the public in trying to sensitize them to these very critical issues and then someone from the government who speaks for the government, comes out and says that you are not there and that you don’t exist,” Wallace said.

“That can immediately exhaust you and discourage you but this is work that women and feminists have been doing for decades and I think we have already proven that we are indefatigable.

“We press on no matter what.”