by Daveny Ellis

Founder of the Sexuality Health and Empowerment group (SHE Barbados), Ro-Ann Mohammed, has told Loop she believes 2020 will be a good year as they work to "carve out safe spaces" for queer women and transgender people in Barbados and the region.

SHE is a community-building platform which focuses on the inter-sectional marginalization of lesbian, bisexual, queer women and transgender people in Barbados. The organization was formed after a counter-protest by a local evangelical group, attempting to reclaim the rainbow symbol used to represent LGBT people.

Mohammed said the majority of the people present at the counter-protest were queer women and this underscored the sentiment for her that queer women and transgender people are always at the front lines of the LGBT+ activism both regionally and globally. Read more via LOOP