Intersect Antigua-Barbuda

ALT Text: LIBERATION POETICS Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism Read or listen to people across the Caribbean and diaspora speak out against imperial and neocolonial violence on intersectantigua.com LINK IN BIO Visual description: The text in this image is a combination of dark red and black. The text is surrounded by red and blue flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: THE PERFORMANCE OF INDEPENDENCE What does Independence mean today amid imperial and neocolonial incursions, violence, silence, and complicity? Intersect Antigua-Barbuda Visual description: The text in this image is a combination of dark red and black. Above the text is an image of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky. The text and this image are surrounded by red flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: “And yet slave owners were compensated for the loss of their slaves, with the associated government debt only fully repaid in 2015 but of course a formal apology and reparations is where the line is now drawn” —@LilithBlack25 Visual description: The text in this image in a screenshot (black on a white background) from X dot com. This screenshot is overlayed atop a photo of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky.

ALT Text: “Any time post-colonial Black aspiring rulers negotiate for the price of human beings to, in effect, purchase them in a business transaction where they have no citizenship rights that must be respected, because of an absurdity (their lack of status as a…result of not being present in the nation-state or country they were born in), this goes very far to reproducing historical relations of enslavement.” — “Negotiating the Price of Human Beings in the Post-Slavery Caribbean?” By Clash!Collective Visual description: The text in this image partly in a screenshot and partly white. Both are overlayed atop a photo of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky.

ALT Text: “What should be the consequences of members of the Caribbean political class, talking slavery reparations, literally negotiating the price of people with Donald Trump?” -- “Negotiating the Price of Human Beings in the Post-Slavery Caribbean?”by Clash!Collective Visual description: The text in this image in a screenshot. This screenshot is overlayed atop a photo of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky.

ALT Text: “Gaston Browne hosts CHOGM, condemning Britain's colonial dispossession while Barbudans fight to defend communal land and autonomy against his government's development agenda. You cannot demand reparations abroad while reproducing dispossession at home. Barbudans deserve better.” -Keston K Perry Visual description: The text in this image in a screenshot (black on a white background) from X dot com. This screenshot is overlayed atop a photo of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky.

ALT Text: “I have some time today for Caribbean leaders and their hypocrisy: demanding reparations from colonisers while acting as colonisers at home, dressing up dispossession as "development" & "investment," and displacing their own people to enrich foreign capital. Reparations for whom?” - Keston K. Perry Visual description: The text in this image in a screenshot (black on a white background) from X dot com. This screenshot is overlayed atop a photo of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky.

ALT Text: OVER 200 PEOPLE KILLED IN BOATS What does it mean to celebrate Independence day while the US navy continues to bomb people in boats in the southern Caribbean? Where is the outrage and condemnation? Intersect Antigua-Barbuda Visual description: The text in this image is a combination of dark red and black. Above the text is an image of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky. The text and this image are surrounded by red flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: SELLING AND BUYING HUMAN BEINGS What does it mean to celebrate Independence day when the Antiguan and Barbudan government is negotiating payment from the US for third country deportations at the same time it condemns slavery? Intersect Antigua-Barbuda Visual description: The text in this image is a combination of dark red and black. Above the text is an image of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky. The text and this image are surrounded by red flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.

ALT Text: SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE & PROTESTORS What does it mean to celebrate Independence day and while hosting the monarch of a country whose government is arresting its own elderly citizens for protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza? Intersect Antigua-Barbuda Visual description: The text in this image is a combination of dark red and black. Above the text is an image of the Antiguan flag flying high in a bright blue sky. The text and this image are surrounded by red flowers, as well as vibrant green leaves. Everything rests against a rich mustard yellow background with a slight gradient.