The Bad Fiji Gyals

The Bad Fiji Gyals

“This new online essay will build off of our first essay, “Undoing History’s Spell on Bad Women: Counter-colonial narratives of the female Girmit role in the 1920 labour strike”, and interweave collective work as we meme it out. This essay will reflect on what it means to write our own history, the significance of giving back agency to our ancestors and acknowledge generational labour around knowledge production. Our ancestors and communities' physical labour has carried us to this point where we now have the privilege to translate these stories into writing, textiles, friendship and continue the legacy of Girmit resistance.”