May 2011
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Anonymous asked: Would you consider T&T a developing country when it comes to issues of gender? Our women do have access to health, education, ownership of resources etc. But we still suffer from gender discrimination, gender violence. So what do you think?
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Interview with Debra Providence
WomenSpeak talks to Debra Providence about her poem While Walking Up Back Street
WS: It feels like this poem is based on a real incident that happened to you? What made you decide to write about it?
DP : Yes it is based on a real incident, of course, without the blood and mucas. I decided to write about it because in the moment I felt reduced to a piece of my anatomy. I felt that the...
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While Walking Up Back Street
While walking up Back Street
in green tank, yellow mesh T-shirt
and loose blue jeans
a copper hails me from
the other side of the street,
“Ras, eh ras,
Dem breast dey look real sweet,
Ah just want dem breast dey,
Just de breast, you hear ras?”
And me, being the polite
And obliging lady
My parents brought
me up to be,
Coolly took out a
Meat cleaver
(cause you never know
when a...
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