A photo essay by Taitu Heron The essay uses personal involvement, interviews of key leaders, attendees and participants, photographs of stands, protests and marches, to discuss and demonstrate how activists have relied more recently on testimony, disruptive tactics and African derived spiritual practices to shift the way activism takes place in Jamaica in order to challenge the AfroSaxon middle class sensibilities of the status quo and break free from the tendencies of conservative feminist heterosexism in Jamaica’s women’s movement towards something else. This "something else" means different things to the different women who participated and who experienced it with commonalities threading them altogether. This essay elaborates on these meanings as told by the women themselves. Special emphasis will on the recounting of the Tambourine Army and the Survivor Empowerment March of March 11, 2017 in Kingston, Jamaica.

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NOT A BLOODKLAAT!:
EXPLORING PERFORMANCE,
RITUAL, TESTIMONY AND
DISRUPTION IN JAMAICA’S
SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
Taitu Heron, Head/Development
Specialist
Women and Development Unit (WAND)
UWI Open Campus

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Tanya Stephens

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