Public Policy & Community Outreach

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Our Head of Department, Taitu Heron was a panelist at the UWI Open Campus webinar on coping with domestic stress is tomorrow afternoon on July 28, 2020.

PUBLIC FORUM

On January 28, 2020, Ms. Heron, Head of WAND gave a public lecture in collaboration with the Women & Gender Studies Institute/Caribbean Studies Programme of the University of Toronto, the Caribbean Solidarity Network, and A Different Booklist in Toronto, Canada. The lecture was entitled, "Not a Bloodklaat: Exploring Performance, Testimony, Ritual and Disruption in Jamaica's Social Justice Movement. With reference to earlier movements in the Black Radical Tradition, the lecture focused on the work of the Tambourine Army and its Survivor Empowerment March, held in Jamaica on March 11, 2017. Photos

WAND in collaboration with IGDS Cave Hill presents an evening of Caribbean poetry and prose based on Caribbean realities and women's experiences, featuring Kya Knight, Debra Providence, Sonia Williams, Taitu Heron, and Prof Opal Palmer Adisa. Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at 6 pm The Mount Restaurant, UWI Cave Hill Campus. Full video, Photos

Ms Taitu Heron, Head of WAND, guest speaker at the Seminar Series of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Nita Barrow Unit, UWI Cave Hill on Tuesday April 9, 2019.

PUBLIC FORUM

The Women and Development Unit (WAND), UWI Open Campus, and Waves of Bliss and Business By Design Consulting collaborated to host a public forum entitled "Exploring the Good-Good: Women, Orgasms and the Politics of Pleasure". With Key Note speaker Ms. Katrina Ifill, Sensual Empowerment Leader and Business owner of Waves of Bliss and Orgasmik Intelligence. March 28, 2019. Full Video Photos

During December 2018 and January 2019, feedback was obtained on the specific areas to be addressed in prioritising an inclusive approach in Barbadian development.