Ro-Ann Mohammed
Ro-Ann Mohammed is a human rights activist. In 2012, she co-founded the organisation Barbados - Gays, Lesbians and All-Sexuals against Discrimination (B-GLAD) with Donnya Piggott.[1] In 2018, she was an organizer of Barbados' first LGBTQ Pride Parade.[2][3]
Early life
Ro-Ann was born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago. She moved to Barbados to attend The University of the West Indies Cave Hill and studied psychology.
Career
In 2012, she started B-GLAD with Donnya Piggott.[4] She has been vocal about the discrimination that LGBTQ people face in Barbados.[5] and that the Evangelical Church in Barbados discriminates against LGBTQ people.[6]
She is a feminist, advocate for gender equality[7] and activist for sexual and reproductive health rights.[8][9] In 2016, she was named as a Fellow in President Obama's Young Leader of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) for her work with the Barbados LGBTQ community.[10][11][12]
She speaks out against the Barbados government, which punishes gay sex with life imprisonment. She attended anti-LGBTQ spaces in protest.[5][13] In 2018,[14] Mohammed was responsible for organizing Barbados' first LGBTQ Pride Parade, which took place in the island's capital of Bridgetown.[2][15][16]
References
- ^ author, Nation News (24 June 2013). "BGLAD: Don't hate".
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ a b "Barbados held its first Pride parade and it was as fabulous as you expect". 24 July 2018.
- ^ "These beautiful pictures of Barbados Pride will restore your faith in humanity". 24 July 2018.
- ^ "Coming Out in the Caribbean - Ro-Ann's Story - The Global West Indian". 29 June 2018.
- ^ a b "Battleground Barbados: LGBT activists face off against North American homophobes in the Caribbean". 13 April 2017.
- ^ author, Nation News (16 November 2017). "Church: No climate of violence against LGBT".
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "#LifeinLeggings not just a social media trend". www.loopnewsbarbados.com.
- ^ author, Nation News (15 August 2015). "Open talks at Sex Shop".
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "Ro-Ann Mohammed – Women Deliver".
- ^ "5 Bajan entrepreneurs off to the U.S.A". www.loopnewsbarbados.com.
- ^ "Participant Biographies" (PDF). meridian.org. September 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
- ^ "UN Women announces new members of its Civil Society Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean".
- ^ author, Nation News (30 October 2017). "Row over rainbow colours".
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ^ "Transphobic 'Sex Change' song causes controversy in Barbados". 25 July 2018.
- ^ "Barbados' LGBT+ community is here, queer and making history with the country's first public Pride Parade · Global Voices". 29 July 2018.
- ^ "These beautiful pictures of Barbados Pride will restore your faith in humanity". 24 July 2018. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2018.