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 LGBT Pride Parade.[2][3]

Early life

Ro-Ann was born in Trinidad and Tobago. She moved to Barbados as a child, where she attended 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 LGBT people face in Barbados.[5] and that the Evangelical Church in Barbados discriminates against LGBT 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 LGBT community.[10][11][12]

She speaks out against the Barbados government, which punishes gay sex with life imprisonment. She attended anti-LGBT spaces in protest.[5][13] In 2018,[14] Mohammed was responsible for organizing Barbados' first LGBT Pride Parade, which took place in the island's capital of Bridgetown.[2][15][16]

References
  1. author, Nation News. "BGLAD: Don't hate".
  2. "Barbados held its first Pride parade and it was as fabulous as you expect".
  3. "These beautiful pictures of Barbados Pride will restore your faith in humanity". 24 July 2018.
  4. "Coming Out in the Caribbean - Ro-Ann's Story - The Global West Indian". 29 June 2018.
  5. "Battleground Barbados: LGBT activists face off against North American homophobes in the Caribbean". 13 April 2017.
  6. author, Nation News. "Church: No climate of violence against LGBT".
  7. "#LifeinLeggings not just a social media trend". www.loopnewsbarbados.com.
  8. author, Nation News. "Open talks at Sex Shop".
  9. "Ro-Ann Mohammed – Women Deliver".
  10. "5 Bajan entrepreneurs off to the U.S.A". www.loopnewsbarbados.com.
  11. http://www.meridian.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/YLAI-Bios-9.2.pdf
  12. "UN Women announces new members of its Civil Society Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean".
  13. author, Nation News. "Row over rainbow colours".
  14. "Transphobic 'Sex Change' song causes controversy in Barbados". 25 July 2018.
  15. "Barbados' LGBT+ community is here, queer and making history with the country's first public Pride Parade · Global Voices". 29 July 2018.
  16. "These beautiful pictures of Barbados Pride will restore your faith in humanity". 24 July 2018.
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