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  • 2025
    • Sep 21, 2025 The Earth and the Word: How Women Grow Themselves in Silence and Soil Sep 21, 2025
    • Sep 21, 2025 From purdah to protest Sep 21, 2025
    • Sep 21, 2025 Invisible No More — One Dalit woman’s reckoning with India Sep 21, 2025
    • Sep 20, 2025 For the Women who did not live to tell their stories Sep 20, 2025
    • Sep 14, 2025 Bloodlines & boundaries Sep 14, 2025
    • Sep 14, 2025 Mia Mottley and the moral imagination of power Sep 14, 2025
    • Sep 14, 2025 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf: Power without Spectacle Sep 14, 2025
    • Sep 13, 2025 What Michelle Bachelet knew about power Sep 13, 2025
    • Sep 13, 2025 What Angela Cropper knew about power Sep 13, 2025
    • Sep 13, 2025 Full throttle for Women’s Rights Sep 13, 2025
  • 2024
    • Jun 24, 2024 Quotes by great women writers Jun 24, 2024
  • 2023
    • Jun 4, 2023 Why can’t her body be hers? Jun 4, 2023
    • Apr 30, 2023 The Women’s Prize books for your enjoyment Apr 30, 2023
  • 2019
    • Dec 1, 2019 Cyanide in a Pot Dec 1, 2019
    • Oct 20, 2019 Naked Shame Oct 20, 2019
    • Aug 25, 2019 Wisdom from the Highway Aug 25, 2019
    • Jan 13, 2019 Painted on Silver Dress Jan 13, 2019
  • 2018
    • Dec 30, 2018 Forgive Yourself (Drink To That) Dec 30, 2018
    • Feb 11, 2018 Congo Man Feb 11, 2018
  • 2017
    • Dec 31, 2017 Facing our Reckoning Together Dec 31, 2017
    • Nov 5, 2017 Drop the Macho Stereotypes Nov 5, 2017
    • Oct 22, 2017 Shedding Displaced Shame Oct 22, 2017
  • 2016
    • Jan 10, 2016 Trials of Being Human Jan 10, 2016
  • 2015
    • Dec 27, 2015 Tending to the Unlovely Core Dec 27, 2015
    • Jul 5, 2015 Brutality Breeds Brutality Jul 5, 2015
    • Apr 12, 2015 Stand Up For What’s Right Apr 12, 2015
  • 2014
    • Dec 14, 2014 Who are We Trinidad & Tobago? Dec 14, 2014
    • Sep 21, 2014 Guilty of Objectifying Judging Sep 21, 2014
    • Jul 13, 2014 The Council of Older Women Jul 13, 2014
    • Jul 6, 2014 Savouring our Schadenfreude Jul 6, 2014
    • Feb 23, 2014 Siddhartha’s Gifts Feb 23, 2014
    • Feb 16, 2014 What a Man Wants Feb 16, 2014
    • Jan 5, 2014 Christmas Epiphany Jan 5, 2014
  • 2013
    • Dec 28, 2013 Lessons from My Father Dec 28, 2013
  • 2012
    • Jan 1, 2012 The Sole Work Ethic Jan 1, 2012
  • 2011
    • Jul 10, 2011 Maid in Manhattan Jul 10, 2011
    • Jun 19, 2011 Calling All Absent Fathers Jun 19, 2011
    • Apr 17, 2011 Pregnant Woman Dies. State Failure. Apr 17, 2011
  • 2010
    • Dec 19, 2010 Grieving Women Wearing Cocktail Rings Dec 19, 2010
  • 2007
    • Nov 18, 2007 Embarrassing Muslim Women Nov 18, 2007
    • Oct 28, 2007 Of Mosques & Barriers Oct 28, 2007
    • Apr 8, 2007 Working Women, their Drowning Boys Apr 8, 2007
  • 2006
    • Jul 2, 2006 Bikinis and Beauty from London to Trinidad Jul 2, 2006
    • Jun 11, 2006 Make Abuse Visible Jun 11, 2006
    • Jun 11, 2006 Make Abuse Visible Jun 11, 2006
    • Jun 8, 2006 Game Over Jun 8, 2006
    • Jun 4, 2006 Traits of the ‘Demand Man’ Jun 4, 2006
    • Jun 4, 2006 Traits of the “Demand Man” Jun 4, 2006
    • May 28, 2006 Sly Slap of Abuse May 28, 2006
  • 2005
    • Dec 18, 2005 Female Power- a Turn off for Men Dec 18, 2005
  • 2004
    • Jun 14, 2004 Counting Bitterness Jun 14, 2004
  • 2002
    • Jun 9, 2002 Dear 16 and 18 year old Girl Women Jun 9, 2002
  • 2001
    • Apr 29, 2001 Bullying Businessmen Apr 29, 2001
    • Apr 22, 2001 Women with Unseeing Eyes Apr 22, 2001
  • 2000
    • Sep 17, 2000 A Tale of Two Women Sep 17, 2000
    • Jun 2, 2000 Independent, secure and 30-something Jun 2, 2000
    • Mar 12, 2000 Luck and Lotto at Play Mar 12, 2000
  • 1999
    • Nov 11, 1999 That Thing Called Love Nov 11, 1999
  • 1998
    • Dec 17, 1998 Some Real Men Over 50 Dec 17, 1998
    • Dec 10, 1998 Real Men are Not Back, They are Only Getting Older Dec 10, 1998
    • Nov 26, 1998 Domestic Violence- A Deadly Virus Nov 26, 1998
    • Nov 5, 1998 In Support of a Battered Woman Nov 5, 1998
    • Jul 9, 1998 The Lasting Legacy of Adam and Eve Jul 9, 1998
    • Feb 12, 1998 Children of the Dead Feb 12, 1998
  • 1997
    • Dec 11, 1997 Love Snips for Love Snaps Dec 11, 1997
    • Aug 7, 1997 An Ode to Fathers Aug 7, 1997
    • Jun 26, 1997 What Goes on Behind Closed Doors Jun 26, 1997
    • May 29, 1997 Why Marriage is Unnatural- Part 3 May 29, 1997
    • May 15, 1997 Why Marriage is Unnatural- Part 2 May 15, 1997
    • May 1, 1997 Why Marriage is Unnatural- Part 1 May 1, 1997
  • 1996
    • Feb 18, 1996 Sisters and Other Women Feb 18, 1996
  • 1995
    • Oct 18, 1995 Men Who Don’t Care and the Women Who Love Them Oct 18, 1995
    • Oct 18, 1995 Men who Don't Care and the Women who Love Them Oct 18, 1995
    • Jun 26, 1995 To Marry for Love or Security Jun 26, 1995
    • Jun 2, 1995 Bimbette with Brains Jun 2, 1995

 

 

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