Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This panel explores the ways that feminist theories and praxis challenge colonial representations of islands as isolated, dependent, or peripheral. Presenters will focus on the spiritual practices of Chagossian women, the impact of the U.S. Navy on women’s lives in Vieques, land reclamation in St. John and broader decolonial and anti patriarchal modes of island feminism.

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