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 (24 June 2013). "BGLAD: Don't hate". {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. 1 2 "Barbados held its first Pride parade and it was as fabulous as you expect". 24 July 2018.
  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. 1 2 "Battleground Barbados: LGBT activists face off against North American homophobes in the Caribbean". 13 April 2017.
  6. ↑ author, Nation News (16 November 2017). "Church: No climate of violence against LGBT". {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  7. ↑ "#LifeinLeggings not just a social media trend". www.loopnewsbarbados.com.
  8. ↑ author, Nation News (15 August 2015). "Open talks at Sex Shop". {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  9. ↑ "Ro-Ann Mohammed – Women Deliver".
  10. ↑ "5 Bajan entrepreneurs off to the U.S.A". www.loopnewsbarbados.com.
  11. ↑ "Participant Biographies" (PDF). meridian.org. September 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  12. ↑ "UN Women announces new members of its Civil Society Advisory Group for Latin America and the Caribbean".
  13. ↑ author, Nation News (30 October 2017). "Row over rainbow colours". {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  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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