Intersect Antigua-Barbuda

ALT “The Master’s Tools, The Mother’s Tongue: Healing and the Paniah Machete” with Carla Moore on October 29th at 6pm AST/5pm JA. A flyer on a yellow background with blue and red flowers and green leaves. Carla Moore is enveloped by the flora.

ALT Text: LIBERATION POETICS Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism The Master's Tools, The Mother's Tongue: Healing and the Paniah Machete with Carla Moore COMMENT REGISTER FOR A LINK TO THE REGISTRATION FORM AND TO LEARN MORE Visual Description: The text is a combination of dark red and black. Surrounding the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: LIBERATION POETICS Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism Liberation Poetics: Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism, is an interdisciplinary and multimodal project that includes stories, essays, poetry, photography, art, webinars, and now this healing justice session. This is a crucial period in which Caribbean feminists, emboldened by and spirited with a decolonizing, Queeribbean sensibility, must rise to meet this structure of imperial incursion into the region and beyond. We are hopeful that you will join us in raising up a strident cry against its violence. Visual description: The text is a combination of dark red and black. Surrounding the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: ABOUT OUR FACILITATOR She holds a BA (Hons.) in Media and Communications with a Minor in Cultural Studies from the UWI Mona, an MA in Gender Studies from Queen's University, and Certifications in Solution Oriented Coaching and Transformational Life Coaching. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in gender and development. Connect with her on social media @MooreTalkJa Visual description: The text is a combination of dark red and black. Surrounding the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: ABOUT OUR FACILITATOR Carla Moore is an artist, activist, academic, alchemist, and an Assistant Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Campus Unit. Her research, activism, curriculum development, content creation, event curation, and coaching focus on personal and community liberation through decolonial praxis. Most importantly she grapples with what it might feel like to be free. Visual description: The text is a combination of dark red and black. Surrounding the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: ABOUT THIS SESSION By participating in this session, attendees will be able to: 1. Describe their own vision for healing and liberation. 2. Imagine a healing and liberation practice contoured by queeribbean ways of thinking and being. SESSION RESOURCES “Strivings of the Negro People" by W.E.B. Du Bois, published in the August 1897 issue of The Atlantic Monthly (Volume 80, Number 478, pages 194-198) “The Souls of Black Folk: Chapter I of our Spiritual Strivings" by W.E.B. Du Bois "The Master's Tools the Mother's Tongue" by Carla Moore, published in the 2024 issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Special Issue 45.2A "Fresh" Online) Final Body Map Visual description: The text is a combination of dark red and black. Surrounding the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: ABOUT THIS SESSION GUIDING QUESTIONS Who, and what systems, benefit from the version of healing I am pursuing? What would liberation feel like in MY body? And what would it look like in my community? And after healing, after liberation, what then? Through an exploration of personal experience (Carla's and yours), art, and Caribbean feminist thought, Carla invites us to grapple with pleasure, queerness, and our hopes for communities and lives that are free. Visual description: The text is a combination of dark red and black. Surrounding the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: ABOUT THIS SESSION "If your healing was a paniah machete, what would it chop dung on the way to your liberation?" This session is an invitation to consider the meaning and the feeling of liberation - not just as aspiration, but as a thing that may carry imperialist debris. In this container, we will confront and work through some of the more complicated aspects of liberation and healing. THINKING ABOUT JOINING US? Comment REGISTER, scan the QR code, or click the link in our bio! Visual description: The text is a combination of dark red and black. Surrounding the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Intersect Antigua-Barbuda presents THE MASTER'S TOOLS, THE MOTHER'S TONGUE Healing and the Paniah Machete with CARLA MOORE via Zoom on October 29th at 6 PM AST Register here Visual description: “The Master’s Tools, The Mother’s Tongue: Healing and the Paniah Machete” is dark red, while the rest of the text is black. In the lefthand corner of this flyer is an image or Carla Moore. She is a brown skinned Jamaican woman, with her hair styled in an afro She is smiling gently at the camera. Surrounding her and the text are red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.