Akola Thompson

We have long taken ethnic unease into our homes and swaddled it under blankets of mutual loathing.

Despite the progressive steps made in the workplace, it still remains filled with barriers that make it difficult for women to navigate professional environments.

Not so long ago, residents in Region 4 were being lulled into a false sense of security regarding the spread of COVID-19 amongst them.

Within our society, there is a dangerous philosophy that surrounds workers and the things that they are expected to endure.

At one point in our history, sugar served as the crown jewel of Guyana’s industries.

On the day the elections results were declared, many Guyanese breathed a sigh of relief.

Tomorrow we celebrate the end of chattel slavery, the day our ancestors were emancipated from an inhumane system that should have never existed.

The idea of reparations for the atrocities committed during the transatlantic slave trade is often a hotly contested idea.

Despite society’s reliance on the law and its punitive elements to direct behaviour, there are many gaps between our laws and what our culture continues to allow.

If it’s one thing society continues to do, it is the excusing of violence and sexual predation against women and girls.

Across the US of A, Black Lives Matter protests are still being maintained against the violent policing systems that target Black people.

Ever since I was a young child, I enjoyed the news.

Black Lives Matter; it is a phrase that is so simple and profoundly brief in its request for humanity.

COVID-19 is intensifying much of our social, economic and environmental issues that have for a long time been swept under the carpet.

Andaiye was an extremely wise woman who was full of profound words and beliefs.

“While we need organizing that is anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, our organizing must also be anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, and against all forms of exploitation, subordination and discrimination.”

Throughout most of my life and growth as a young woman in Guyana, I was taught to abide by the laws and expectations of the heteronormative patriarchy.

“Unwaged housework is the productive labor without which there would be nothing else: no other labor, no workers, no economy, no society.”

The economic fallouts of COVID-19 have already begun to be felt by the people.

In every dark cloud there is a silver lining, or so we’ve been taught to believe.