Abstract Reflecting on the contributions of Professor Emerita Rhoda Reddock, this essay explores her sustained engagement with Indo-Caribbean gendered realities and how investment in understanding her “other” has informed her scholarship and activism. Thinking with the process of mas making, and particularly with the character “Nachorious” created for Jouvay 2025, the author considers the ways Reddock's analyses have informed her own postindenture Caribbean feminist praxes. Both a review of Reddock's life and work and an engagement with her legacy, the essay grounds the creation of Nachorious in Reddock's pathbreaking research on Indian indenture, but it also points to her life lived by example, her good advice for public intellectual writing, her continued involvement in imagining social change, and the value of her work on the intersections of ethnicity, class, and gender for the larger society, particularly in divisive times. Written from the perspective of a younger scholar mentored over decades and an almost daughter, it traverses the ways Rhoda Reddock also influenced life paths, like the author's own, through establishment of her academic home, the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine.
Gabrielle Jamela Hosein (Sun,) studied this question.