Amanda T. McIntyre

Amanda T. McIntyre is a writer, cultural activist and one of the co-directors of the Caribbean feminist organization WOMANTRA. Her portfolio focuses on cultural retention, transmission and transformation. She works with the Alliance of Rural Communities and she is closely affiliated with indigenous groups in Trinidad. Amanda is an active member of the Vulgar Fraction Mas band that engages the Trinidad Carnival as a platform for social justice. Amanda also teaches creative writing classes at her home in Central Trinidad.

articles from Amanda T. Mcintyre

Rising Over Ruins (Part 1/3)

The event was hosted by The University of the West Indies in commemoration of V. S. Naipaul’s 75th year. I had no intention of attending but when the Nobel Laureate arrived in Trinidad and his picture was published on the front page of the newspaper, my younger cousin Marquez asked [...]

Rising Over Ruins (Part 2/3)

by Amanda T. McIntyreThe work of V.S Naipaul challenges stereotypes about East Indians in Trinidad and Tobago. This had not been done, on the same scale, before his literary advent. This social group first came to Trinidad in 1845 as indentured labourers. Trinidad was in a post-emancipation/pre-independence mode and race [...]

Rising Over Ruins (Part 3/3)

by Amanda T. McIntyre I started off my writing career with a feminist, Pan-Africanist framework. The core of my portfolio as a writer, artist and activist have these politics. Naipaul would have most likely found me insufferable. He would not have acknowledged any debt of care. Why then should I [...]