The Four Seasons 2026-27

The Foundation
The 2026-27 Rebel Women Lit Salon is rooted in Édouard Glissant's concept of Relation, meaning emerges not from singular events but from accumulation, encounter, and exchange across time. Each season builds on the last. Each hour you invest in deepening your understanding of a season helps us honour Lorde by transforming silence into action.

Protecting time each week to engage the literature is not a constraint — it is a ritual.

Glissant, E. (1997). Poetics of Relation. | Lorde, A. (1977). The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action.

  • The reproductive body is not merely biological, it is historical, spiritual, and contested terrain. From the forced reproduction of enslaved women to contemporary neonatalism and maternal mortality disparities. The womb has always been political and this season we explore the body as a political and spiritual battle ground.

  • The Caribbean Sea holds the memory of hurricanes, the Middle Passage, pollution, and exploitative tourism. This season, we connect directly to marine ecology, reading the Sea as a teacher of survival and relation.

  • The retirement and investing conversation we never have — framed through Federici, bell hooks, Mernissi, and a hard look at the tradwife and "man in finance" trends.

  • Diasporic identity & belonging. Danticat, Mernissi, and Stuart Hall ask: after all the fighting, who are you, and where is home?

Storytelling: Abortion Monologues

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#26 - Untitled
#26 - Untitled

I was in a three-year relationship with a boy who I thought I was in love with. We were going on good, and we had unprotected sex all the time. So it was shocking when I told him I was pregnant, and the first thought he had was that it could not have been his. This guy was the only person I was having sex with. I tried to convince him that it had to be his child but he was convinced otherwise.

#25 - Salt Like I-Maroon
#25 - Salt Like I-Maroon

Me really wah fight people how everything that is not supposed to be their business… but is their business.

I’ve had more than one abortion. Not 27…or a 12 or even 5. But more than one. I think 3.

#24 - Untitled
#24 - Untitled

Hey 👋 Good night I don’t know where to start from but I did 2 abortion one in 2015 and one in 2017 and up to this day I sometimes cry myself to sleep.

Reviews, Critiques, and Original Pieces:

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A Brief Examination of Age as a theme in Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
A Brief Examination of Age as a theme in Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun

What is your approach to ageing? Are you desperately keeping the grey hairs and aches at bay or are you anticipating the embrace of a slower paced life, possibly in retirement, or faster paced life completing the bucket list. This brief look at ageing in Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun nudges at these questions.

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Performance of Long Celia by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Performance of Long Celia by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette

Unna Hear Dem Drums!? WAKE UP - may we answer the call in this poem about Long Celia - whose spirit they could never capture

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Book Review of Sheila Murray's Finding Edward by Mason Haigh
Book Review of Sheila Murray's Finding Edward by Mason Haigh

If the immigrant experience and that of minorities is a reflection of society’s values then what does it say about us when their stories never quite make it into the history books or have been hidden?

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Video Performance of "Expanding" by Tara Downs
Video Performance of "Expanding" by Tara Downs

When you think of your grandmother, what sights, sounds, smells and senses do these memories inspire? In this video performance, we are invited to dance down memory lane

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