Gabrielle Jamela Hosein

Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is the head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies at St Augustine. She is the coeditor of two collections, Negotiating Gender, Policy and Politics in the Caribbean: Feminist Strategies, Masculinist Resistance and Transformational Possibilities and Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments. She is coexecutive editor of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, a journal published since 2007 by the IGDS. In 2018, she authored the qualitative study of intimate partner violence, Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago (UN Women). She has been part of Caribbean feminist movement-building for twenty-four years and created the feminist movement-building game, Steppin’ Up, which has been used for regional activist training since 2005. As a performance poet since 1997, her work extends to spoken word collaborations on gender-based violence prevention across the region. Her current areas of research and advocacy are gender-based violence, masculinities, Indo-Caribbean feminisms, politics, and gender-responsive budgeting. Her blog, Diary of a Mothering Worker, has been published weekly as a national newspaper column since 2012.