Dec 9, 2016
On July 11, 1904, an indentured Indian woman lay among plantain trees in Guyana, nearly decapitated by her ex who followed her to work. On December ...
Suzanne Persard ─ a founding member of Jahajee Sisters, “the first organization in the U.S. for Indo-Caribbean women committed to ending gender-based violence” ─ on the recent brutal murder of Rajwantie Baldeo (an Indo-Guyanese woman) in public in Queens, NYC at the hands of her estranged common-law husband and the looming legacies of colonially-sanctioned, gendered violence.