Latoya Nugent

Author: Latoya Nugent

  • The impact of the ‘Me Too’ movement in Jamaica

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    Latoya Nugent

    I’ve been reading many tweets, Facebook posts and articles about ‘me too’. The number of people using those five letters is a reminder of how pervasive sexual violence is in communities around the world, in communities across the Caribbean, and in communities at home – Jamaica. Survivors are talking. Silencing – one of the features…

  • Queering African economic liberation: A Feminist capitalist approach

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    Latoya Nugent

    October 13, 2017 Presentation at the Walter Rodney Symposium hosted by the Institute of Caribbean Studies, UWI Mona, Friday, October 13, 2017 under the theme ‘Marcus Garvey and the Vision and Practice of Economic Emancipation’ Good evening everyone. Congratulations to the Institute of Caribbean Studies for keeping the name and legacy of Walter Rodney and…

  • Thinking through Verene Shepherd’s ‘Petticoat Rebellion’ 

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    Latoya Nugent

    September 21, 2017 Petticoat Rebellion? Women and Emancipation in Colonial Jamaica is Verene Shepherd’s telling of the critical role women have played in every historical and contemporary emancipatory project in the creation of the Jamaican State. She extensively describes and  situates Black Jamaican women in the history of what she calls the pre-feminist and feminist…

  • Understanding Jamaica’s political dynamics

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    Latoya Nugent

    May 9, 2017 I like politics, not the representational bit (I wouldn’t contest elections), but I enjoy studying how politicians operate – the politicking and the governing. But for a while I lost interest in it and would only occasionally comment on our political affairs. Leading up to, and following the 2016 general elections in…

  • Rethinking childcare: Shared responsibilities in society

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    Latoya Nugent

    A couple days ago the official Twitter handle of Prime Minister Andrew Holness tweeted that ‘Social responsibility means you should have the children you can afford to give the best life.’ I saw it this afternoon thanks to a colleague who retweeted it. The tweet reminded me of a conversation I had with a few people…