Actors throughout a scene from Intersectional Feminist TV Sequence, titled: Jahajees Rising manufacturing in 2018.
Photograph by The World is Wealthy LLC
The Jahajee Sisters: Empowering Indo-Caribbean Lady, a Queens-based group dedicated to making a secure and equitable society, is on a mission to convey visibility to gender-based violence in its greatest mission but, in keeping with Taij Kumarie Moteelall, who spoke with Caribbean Life about an Intersectional Feminist TV Sequence, titled: Jahajees Rising, prepared for livestreaming platforms.
Moteelall, an award-winning inventive genius, inventive entrepreneur, and co-founder, Arts + Activism and resident for 2 years, spoke passionately in regards to the completion of a pilot, and is scouting screening platforms, corresponding to Netflix and Apple TV +, amongst others to air the collection.
“Enchanted Blue Media, Media Sutra, and different proficient and galvanizing Indo-Caribbean creatives, dedicated to gender justice, are in partnership, to convey the TV collection to fruition,” mentioned Moteelall.
She famous that an additional spicy group of Indo-Caribbean artists and activists’ band collectively after the brutal staffing of Sevita Singh on New 12 months’s Eve in 2018, to construct a cross-class LGBTQ + Inclusive motion that addresses gender-based violence whereas navigating generational trauma, household secrets and techniques, and love triangles.
The inventive creator advised Caribbean Life, that the Jahajee Rising TV collection was impressed by the primary murder in New York Metropolis six years in the past of a Guyanese lady, a violent act that shook the neighborhood. Nevertheless, the TV collection is a fictionalized and futuristic reimaging of a real story.
“Within the collection, Savita Singh survives a brutal stabbing by her companion and joins a budding gender justice motion. Jahajee Rising challenges the narrative that normalize intimate companion violence, whereas igniting new cultural norms,” she mentioned.
“I’ve written the primary two episodes and created the pilot for the primary season of eight episodes,” including, “the work of the Jahajee Sisters have at all times been about ending gender-based violence and it’s additionally sadly at all times been catalyzed by some very brutal murders of Indo-Guyanese and Indo Trinidadian girls, however primarily Guyanese.”
“We all know that it comes from the very early days of the plantation life and a few of the disparities with girls on the plantation within the early days, it was one lady for each 10 males, however in 2018 it form of hit the neighborhood in a different way due to the murder at the moment of 12 months. It was a catalytic second for the Jahajee Sisters.”
“We had been form of in a lull, we had burned out as a volunteer group, so we began coming collectively to think about what it might appear like to make an even bigger affect and maintain ourselves and within the midst of all of it, this brutal homicide occurred, and we began organizing,” mentioned Moteelall.
“I made a decision to create a theater manufacturing known as Jahajee Rising and the theater manufacturing was meant to assist folks perceive, through the use of the humanities as a software for organizing and for consciousness constructing the best way that gender-based violence has been so ingrained and baked into our tradition and normalized and accepted and swept beneath the rug,” she added.
“The best way it’s normalized and accepted is as a result of we don’t speak about it, we don’t handle it by placing it on stage. It took Jahajee Rising 100 years again to the plantations and we noticed the roots of it. We noticed the way it continued within the backside home, we noticed the way it’s persevering with within the streets of New York after which we noticed an instance, so it’s a futuristic reimagining of Stacey’s story, it’s not true to lifetime of Stacy,” mentioned Moteelall.
“I don’t know her story, so it reimagines what if she lived and have become a gender justice activist. Within the theater manufacturing, it helps our neighborhood perceive our methodology. We’re not only a direct service group that’s making an attempt to place a band-aid on the issue, we’re making an attempt to create change within the very cloth of our tradition and the mindset that allow this type of violence to occur, so in 2018 we knew we had been on to one thing highly effective,” expressed Moteelall.
Jahajee Sisters is a movement-building group, led by Indo-Caribbean girls, dedicated to making a secure and equitable society. The group fosters solidarity and empowerment by dialogue, arts, management improvement and grassroots organizing.
