Aisha Leer
2017

The research ‘The missing link: Women’s role in the revolt of ‘Trinta di Mei 1969’  focuses on the involvement of women in the revolt of May 30^th 1969 on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao. This revolt was instrumental in the development of the Curaçao that we know today, but the involvement of women has never been deeply researched.

The goal of this research is to collect narratives of women who have participated both directly as indirectly in the events previous, during and after the May 30^th revolt. The end results will be presented in a book that focuses on the narratives of these women.

Aisha Leer was born and raised in Curaçao and graduated in 2015 with a master degree in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at the University of Leiden. Her master thesis focused on the ways female migrants in the Netherlands from the Dutch Caribbean perceived the creation of the ‘ideal body’. She has since continued to work on issues concerning Caribbean women. Currently she works as an independent researcher and  lecturer at the University of  Curaçao.