This issue of Scholar and Feminist Online, “Caribbean Feminisms: Interventions in Scholarship, Art, and Activism across the Region,” edited by Tonya Haynes and Tami Navarro, offers multiple ways to engage with feminist thought and action in the Caribbean. The contributions herein include prose, poetry, and personal reflection by artists, academics, and activists. As this issue extends the offerings of the Barnard Center for Research on Women literary series “Caribbean Feminisms on the Page,” which began in 2015 and pairs Caribbean authors in conversation, it features a selection of videos from the series. It also includes poetry and powerful imagery related to the region. This issue engages deeply with both foundational and emergent Caribbean scholarship, and has been shaped by loss – in particular the recent passing of several important Caribbean feminist thinkers, among them Michelle Cliff and Andaiye. To mark that loss and honor their memories, this issue features their work and reflections on their work.
Pointing to the interventions that this issue offers, the introduction reads, in part, this “collection seeks to honor Caribbean feminisms past, present, and future through highlighting the creative work and scholarship that are central to feminist consciousness-raising … We trust that this collection conveys something of the preoccupations and possibilities of Caribbean feminisms at their most inclusive, creative, and urgent.”
