Gabrielle Jamela Hosein is Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is Associate Editor of The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She works in the areas of politics and governance and Caribbean feminism. Her column, Diary of a Mothering Worker, is published weekly in the Trinidad Guardian. Lisa Outar is an Independent Scholar who researches Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature. She publishes in the areas of Indo-Caribbean literature, feminist writing, and the connections between the Caribbean and other sites of the indentureship diaspora. She serves as an editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature.