Transnational Caribbean Feminisms and Afro-Atlantic Epistemologies

Abstract

This panel foregrounds Caribbean feminist activism and knowledge production while tracing the wider Afro-Atlantic and Améfrican circuits through which feminist ideas, strategies, and solidarities travel. With a strong focus on the Anglophone Caribbean and Trinidad and Tobago, it shows how feminist organising has been historically entangled with state-building, public service, and struggles over development, revealing how gender norms are co-constituted with racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies. At the same time, the panel situates Caribbean feminisms within transnational projects that have helped reshape global gender-equality frameworks, challenging Eurocentric ‘gender-only’ approaches by insisting on the intersecting violences of neo-colonial dependency, environmental vulnerability, and geopolitical marginality. Expanding beyond a Caribbean-only frame, the panel also follows feminist thought and practice across the Afro-Atlantic: through Afro-Indigenous solidarities, Afro-Colombian feminist futures of justice and repair that unsettle liberal temporalities of ‘transition’, and the affective and bureaucratic labours through which Colombian NGO feminisms navigate the contradictions of neoliberal project time while sustaining political commitments. Finally, it explores how Black feminist genealogies move across the Atlantic—linking Anglophone Caribbean contributions to Black feminism in Britain with Brazilian Black feminist thought—showing the Atlantic as both archive and infrastructure of feminist theorising. Across these sites, the panel highlights “braided agency”: the capacity to move between scholarship, grassroots work, institutional engagement, and transnational advocacy, while remaining in friction with hegemonic global structures.

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