Hello, our very dear, esteemed, and beloved audience and communities! This is Jacqui, writing with our final batch of show notes for the “Under the Sycamore Tree” podcast. Here are our show notes for our final Episode 10: “Sealing this Sankofa.” Possible triggers in this episode include climate change, racism, European colonisation, U.S. imperialism and neoliberal capitalism, patriarchy, homophobia, and transphobia. 

Remember that you can find out more about the Women’s Voice and Leadership - Caribbean partner organizations on our shared funders’ websites: Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and Equality Fund. Also, learn more about the WVL partnership between these two funders here.  

The passages in this episode, in order, are: 

• Unraveling, a novel by Dr. Karen Lord of Barbados. Published in New York, NY, USA by DAW Books in 2019. This passage is taken from page 102.

• “The Race for Theory,” a Black Feminist academic article by the late Dr. Barbara Christian (St. Thomas & California, USA). Her article was published in volume 14, issue 1, of the journal Feminist Studies (Spring 1988, pages 67 - 79).  

• We closed this episode with multiple passages from Kei Miller’s novel, Augustown, Published in New York, NY, USA by Pantheon in 2016. The passages come from pages 115 - 116, 144, and 232. 

You can find former USVI State Senator Janelle K. Sauraw’s July 4th post here on her Instagram profile, @jksauraw. Check out Democracy Now’s suite of coverage on U.S. imperialism, which provided rich references for this episode. We were specifically informed by the following of their reports/stories: 

• “How to Hide an Empire”: Daniel Immerwahr on the History of the Greater United States” (March 5, 2019)

• “Juan González: In Surprise Move, Gorsuch Challenges U.S. Colonialism in SCOTUS Ruling on Puerto Rico” (April 27, 2022) 

• “The Monroe Doctrine, Revisited: How 200 Years of U.S. Policy Have Helped to Destabilize the Americas” (April 27, 2023)

We are also indebted to the example of Zora’s Daughters, as well as their syllabi. The Caribbean Sheroes Initiative, led by UNESCO with UWI’s Institute of Gender and Development Studies, has compiled a host of resources that you all might be interested in. You will even see our own Dave-Ann featured in the interview on their website!

Yours deeply, sincerely, and truly,

Jacqui.