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oapen-20.500.12657-502632022-07-19T02:37:54Z Chapter 3 "Rights a di Plan" Batra, Kanika global, sexuality, postcolonial, Jamaica, India, South Africa, LGBTQ, South-South interactions bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies bic Book Industry Communication::5 Interest age & special interest qualifiers::5S Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest Chapter 3, “‘Rights a di Plan’: Sistren and Sexual Solidarities in Jamaica,” focuses on the newsletter Sistren published by the Sistren Theatre Collectives in the Jamaica from the 1970s to the 1990s. The contents of the magazine reveal that while the women’s movement advocated legislative reform to address rampant sexual violence, activists steered clear of making any direct connections with reproductive and sexual choice and orientations. Presenting these as health concerns enabled a detailed, though indirect, discussion on sexual choice within these magazines without inviting opprobrium either from the large readership or the governmental machinery in Jamaica and other Caribbean nation-states. 2021-07-28T12:32:11Z 2021-07-28T12:32:11Z 2021 chapter 9780367772161 9780367772109 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50263 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781003170303_10.4324_9781003170303-57.pdf Taylor & Francis Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities Routledge 10.4324/9781003170303-57 10.4324/9781003170303-57 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb b1603a57-87d8-4fde-9294-55cf8ee071eb 9780367772161 9780367772109 Routledge 25 open access
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Chapter 3, “‘Rights a di Plan’: Sistren and Sexual Solidarities in Jamaica,” focuses on the newsletter Sistren published by the Sistren Theatre Collectives in the Jamaica from the 1970s to the 1990s. The contents of the magazine reveal that while the women’s movement advocated legislative reform to address rampant sexual violence, activists steered clear of making any direct connections with reproductive and sexual choice and orientations. Presenting these as health concerns enabled a detailed, though indirect, discussion on sexual choice within these magazines without inviting opprobrium either from the large readership or the governmental machinery in Jamaica and other Caribbean nation-states.
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