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IGDS Engagement and Expertise in
Masculinity and Men’s Movement Building  

 

CONTENTS

 

Publications

Journal Articles 

2019. Hosein, Gabrielle. Masculinism, Male Marginalisation and Intimate Partner Backlash in Trinidad and Tobago. Caribbean Journal of Criminology. Vol. 1, No. 4, April 2019, 90–122.

 

Graduate Student Research | Thesis

2019. Marcus Kissoon, MSc. Processes of Disclosure and Gender Negotiations Amongst Indo-Caribbean Male Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse/Sexual Assault. Supervisor: Dr. Gabrielle Hosein

2019. Veeraj Sonnyram, MSc. Engaging Men on Issues of Gender-Based Violence: Notions of Masculinity, Accountability and Pro-Feminist Men’s Movement Building. Supervisor: Dr. Gabrielle Hosein

2018. Amilcar Sanatan, MPhil. Masculinities in the 21st Century Anglophone Caribbean: Challenging Male Privilege with Profeminist Personal Stories. Supervisor: Dr. Gabrielle Hosein

 

Research Projects

2017–2021. Sexual Cultures of Justice
A Sexual Culture of Justice: Strengthening LGBTQI & GBV Partnerships, Capacity & Efficacy to Promote & Protect Rights in T&T” is an activity-based, human rights project funded by the European Union and implemented by the University of the West Indies, Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) in collaboration with six LGBTI and feminist organisations in Trinidad and Tobago: CAISO, Friends for Life, I Am One, The Silver Lining Foundation, Womantra and The Women’s Caucus. This project is a community-university collaboration that provides three years of support for some of the longest-standing and emerging local efforts to transform approaches to partner violence, homophobia, bullying and policing, while building partnerships and organisational capacity. Project Lead Researcher: Dr Angelique Nixon

2019. Engaging Men to End Violence Against Women and Girls in the Caribbean: A Comparative Desk Review of Research, Programmes and Best Practices (Report Forthcoming) Project Team: Dr Gabrielle Hosein and Tricia Basdeo

2017-2018. Qualitative component of the CARICOM model -Prevalence Survey on Gender-Based Violence in Trinidad and Tobago. Team Leader: Dr Gabrielle Hosein. Research Team: Tricia Basdeo Gobin, Colin Robinson, Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh, Simone Leid, Amilcar Sanatan

2017–2021. Sexual Cultures of Justice
A Sexual Culture of Justice: Strengthening LGBTQI & GBV Partnerships, Capacity & Efficacy to Promote & Protect Rights in T&T” is an activity-based, human rights project funded by the European Union and implemented by the University of the West Indies, Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) in collaboration with six LGBTI and feminist organisations in Trinidad and Tobago: CAISO, Friends for Life, I Am One, The Silver Lining Foundation, Womantra and The Women’s Caucus. This project is a community-university collaboration that provides three years of support for some of the longest-standing and emerging local efforts to transform approaches to partner violence, homophobia, bullying and policing, while building partnerships and organisational capacity. Project Lead Researcher: Dr Angelique Nixon

2011-Present. Break the Silence Project - An Ethnographic Study of Child Sexual Abuse in three communities in Trinidad and Tobago. 

2011-2014. Politics, Power and Gender Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean: Women’s Understanding of Politics, Experiences of Political Contestations and the Possibilities for Gender Transformation. Project Team: Dr Gabrielle Hosein, Professor Jane Parpart, and Ms. Tisha Nickenig.
This study was conducted over a period of 24 months.  Data collection took place in Dominica, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago in partnership with IGDS, UWI Mona Campus and Cavehill Campus.  It sought to analyze the experiences of women’s political leadership, electoral quota systems, national gender policies, and women’s transformational leadership and their effectiveness of achieving gender justice.

2002-2006. National Report- Trinidad and Tobago: United Nations Inter-Agency Campaign on Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls - Rhoda Reddock, Rosalie Barclay, Roberta Clarke

2002-2006. Writing Rage: The Language and Literature of Masculinity and Violence – Valerie Youssef and Paula Morgan

 

Outreach | Workshops

Gender Based Violence Collaboration with the 2 Cents Movement 

2019. On Her Voice Regional Secondary School Secondary School Programme. Countries included are Barbados, Belize, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago. IGDS trained the poets in facilitating the design and development of a secondary school policy. This equipped the poets with the tools to guide the 200 students across the 15 schools to design their own policies. 

2018. IGDS designed and facilitated a GBV and Consent Zone training session for poets in Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Barbados. 

2017. Consent Zone Training to 2 Cents Movement in preparation of Anti-Gender Based Violence Outreach to 40 Secondary Schools, and creation of a social media and national electronic billboard campaign for 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence in November 2017

Break the Silence Project

2018. Coalition Against Domestic Violence and BTS Masculinity Conversation. The aim of the ‘conversation’ is to create a space where men, of diversity of culturaland social backgrounds, can come together to reflect on masculinity and violence in local and global contexts. More specifically, paying attention to the intersections between masculinity and violence.

2018. Office of the Prime Minister/IGDS/ BTS Barbershop Initiative workshop. The Barbershop Initiative targeted males aged 14 years and older from within specific communities in the first instance. It was identified as a predominantly male space where men and boys regularly converge and conversation on various issues occurs. 

2017. Partnership with the National Muslim Women Organization of Trinidad and Tobago – Anti-Bullying Campaign BTS was invited to partner with the National Muslim Women Organization of Trinidad and Tobago on their anti -bullying drive. BTS was invited to conduct two sessions, both to schools located in South, with about 250 students and 5 teachers. The sessions addressed in a very creative way - what is bullying, the effects and recreating the narratives within the school yard to end bullying and bullying language.

Caribbean Men Can Campaign

2018. #CaribbeanMenCan Men came together to express their solidarity with the struggle for women’s rights. The IGDS played a crucial role by developing solidarity statements which formed part of the social media campaign #CaribbeanMenCan. Men were welcomed to post these solidarity messages as videos or text on their facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram profiles, to paint or print them on posters and T-shirts and to then implement these commitments in their families, communities and workplaces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zlaMJN51cI&list=PLYEoShCyRmmJb5ohtQnN6DKrwKTMmaEx2

2017. Red Card Rape Culture. A workshop and online campaign designed to build non-judgmental spaces for men to speak honestly about their beliefs about gender, women blaming, consent, revenge pornography and sexual harassment, with the aim of transforming attitudes for gender equality and justice.

 

Professional | Public Service

2019. Member of the European Union and UN Spotlight Initiative Trinidad and Tobago. Interim Civil Society National Reference Group – Gabrielle Hosein

2019. Member of Caribbean Male Action Network Executive Committee – Tricia Basdeo

2019. Member of MenEngage Global Changemaker for SRHR Committee – Tricia Basdeo

2018. Member of the Trinidad and Tobago Sentencing Commission – Gabrielle Hosein

2016. Member of UN Women Regional Advisory Group on Masculinities – Gabrielle Hosein

 

Campaigns

Red Card for Rape 

Caribbean Men Can #CaribbeanMenCan

 

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