At home and throughout the Guyanese diaspora, Guyanese women navigate narrative, visual, and global trade/industry/labor ecologies. This conversation and presentation gathers two interdisciplinary Guyanese-born scholars to map Guyana’s global currents along the following axes: The art and migration narratives of women of the Guyanese diaspora in global contemporary art as they trace their departures, arrivals on diasporic soils, and returns to Guyana (Grace Aneiza Ali); and an ecofeminist analysis that parses the interplay among development dreams, ecological nightmares, and tourist fantasies within gendered migrations and concomitant global extractive industries which exploit Guyana’s women across several borders while jeopardizing fragile ecologies (Oneka LaBennett).

Part of the University of Guyana Diaspora Conference 2023