Marsha Myrie Obi is a Barbadian/Caribbean public intellectual. She is also a practicing women and girls advocate with over twenty-five years of experience organizing at the grassroots level for gender and social justice in Barbados and the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Marsha’s research concentration is unearthing the logics of colonialism that become embedded in the quotidian as ‘natural’ or ‘just the way things are’ and showing how these continue to replicate various harms for Black women and girls in particular but also Black communities in general. Marsha’s research is transdisciplinary and includes conversations across, beyond and without politics, history, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, philosophy as praxis and third world development studies. She is also passionate about Caribbean intellectual traditions and the lessons that they hold for changing the approaches, intentions and methodologies underpinning western intellectual practices.

Books:

Myrie Obi, M. Butch Heterosexuality in Black Caribbean Womanhood: Exploring Gender Performance and Sexuality. Routledge. (2026).

Myrie Obi, M. The Fourth Research Tradition. Lived Places Publishing. (2026).

Edited Books:

1.      Faraclas, N., Severing, R., Weijer, C., Echteld, E., and Hinds M. Anansi’s Defiant Webs. University of the Netherlands Press. (2010)

2.      Faraclas, N., Severing, R., Weijer, C., Echteld, E., Hinds M. and Lawton de

Torruella. In A Sea of Heteroglossia. University of the Netherlands Press. (2009)   

Book Chapters:

1.      Hinds K. and Hinds Myrie M. “Two Sides of the Colonial Coin: The Unsafety of Girls in Caribbean Society” in The Routledge Companion to Gender and Crime Francesca Spina Ed. Routledge. (2025).

Peer Reviewed Articles:

1.      Myrie Obi, Marsha.‘Groundings!: Contextualizing Educational Labour in Sustaining

Black Revolutionary Movements’. Souls Vol. 24. (2026).

2.      Hinds Myrie. M & Lorde, Anya. ‘Plantocratic Patriarchal Culture, Violence

and the Failures of the Global Health System: An Interview with Marsha Hinds Myrie and Anya A. A. Lorde’ Health Sociology Review. (2024)

3.      Hinds Myrie, M. ‘The Commonwealth Caribbean Women’s Movement in a Post-

Colonial Mould: A Route Back to Conscience’.  HTI Journal of African and African Diasporic Studies 1: 1 DOI:https://doi.org/10.55914/hti.1.1.001 (2023).

 4.      Hinds Myrie, M. ‘Woman and The Left in The Caribbean’. Cutlass Special Issue.

London.  England (2022).

5.      Paul Pounder and Hinds Myrie, M. ‘Entrepreneurship and Local Culture: The Barbadian

Rum Shop – At the Crossroads’. Caribbean Quarterly Vol 68. No 3, Sept. (2022).

6.      Hinds-Layne, M. ‘Caribbean Standard English: How to Explain it Nuh!’. Anansi’s Defiant

 Webs. Ed. Faraclas, Severing, Echteld and Hinds-Layne. University of the Netherlands Press. (2010) 

7.      Hinds-Layne, M. ‘Purpose Before Money: Planning Language Festivals in the

Caribbean’. In A Sea of Heteroglossia. Ed. Faraclas, Severing, Echteld, Hinds-Layne and Lawton de Torruella. University of the Netherlands Press. (2009) 

Strategic Litigation Cases:

1.      Lorde, Anya and Hinds Myrie Marsha. ‘A.B and C.D vs. The Government of Barbados Constitutional Motion to Test ‘Wandering’ as a charge. (2023) 

Outcome: Clients awarded $ 210 000 and wandering removed from the Statute. 

2.      Lorde, Anya and Hinds Myrie Marsha. ‘Amicus before the Caribbean Court of Justice in support of the appeal to strike the limitation on Protection Orders. (2023) 

Outcome: Appeal granted in favour of Client and against the Government of Barbados. 

Caribbean Studies Association – Outstanding contribution to Caribbean scholarship (2026)

Activist-In- Residence, University of Guelph (2023-2024)