LGBTQ Rights in the Carribean During COVID-19; and Connecting Black August, Reproductive Justice, and Trans Justice

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Published: 01 August 2021

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LGBTQ Rights in the Carribean during the COVID-19 epidemic

Kenita M. Placide, an LGBT organizer in St. Lucia discusses what is happening in LGBT rights struggles in the Carribean in the last decade. She is Co-Founder/Executive Director of Eastern Caribbean Alliance Diversity and Equality(ECADE). Placide discusses the expansion of LGBT organizations in every Carribean nation and discusses how the groups are internationally connected. Eleven countries in the British Commonwealth still criminalize same sex relations. But two countries have declared the laws unconstitutional. Nine countries are still criminalize same sex relations.  Placide also discusses the pandemics of HIV and COVID-19, as well as the Dengue fever pandemic. She discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in shutting down the large tourist economy which is a major source of jobs for LGBT people in the region.

Connecting Black August, Reproductive Justice, and Trans Justice

In this interview Sasha Alexander from Black Trans Media interviews Ash Williams, a Black Non Binary Trans Organizer based in North Carolina who works with House of Kanautica. Sasha speaks with Ash about his work for incarcerated communities, black trans people, and reproductive justice connecting them all while uplifting Black August, the annual celebration of Black political prisoners and radical black resistance

Impact of Elections in St. Lucia on LGBT Workers; Pacific By-law Referendum; & Analysis of Sex Worker Decriminalization Legislation

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Published: 27 July 2021

Voters on the small Carribean nation of St. Lucia will deliver a verdict in it's parlimentary elections held yesterday July 26th.

Both the main parties are considered conservative by activists we talked to there. The more conservative United Workers Party has held power in the last few years. Some news outlets on the island think the opposition St. Lucia Labor Party (SLP) may win. Activist Maria Fantenelle explains in brief some of their differences and what it may, or may not mean for LGBT people there.

Pacifica by-law referendum results

 Sex Workers  RJ Thompson and Zola Bruce Analyze Sex Worker Decriminalization Legislation.

        RJ Thompson and Zola Bruce of the staff of the Urban Justice Center's Sex Worker Project. discuss differing approaches to decriminalization of sex work. They support complete decriminalization of consensual sex work and oppose laws that purport to decriminalize sex workers but continue to criminalize buyers of sex and others involved in the sex trade.

Intersex People to Protest Non-consensual Intersex genital operations at Weil Cornell.

“Intersex” is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. A large Intersex human rights rally will be taking place on Saturday, August 7 at 2pm at St. Catherine’s Park, 68th Street and 1st Avenue in Manhattan. This rally is calling an end to non-consensual intersex genital operations such as clitoral reductions, a practice being ceased at hospitals nationally. Almost 700 members of the healthcare community have signed a petition condemning non-consensual genital surgery and clitoral experiments on 5-7 year old children. For more information, go to twitter.com/IntersexJustice.