Amanda Choo Quan

Amanda Choo Quan is a Trinidadian-Jamaican writer and literary organizer. She won the 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize—one of the region's most significant for emerging writers. Focusing on race, displacement and her homeland, her work appears in Harper’s Bazaar, NYLON, HuffPost, Caribbean Beat, Callaloo, and others. She tweets @amandacq.

Politics

Why Fashion Is One of the Least Regulated Industries

And what organizers are doing about it.

February 12, 2025

Politics

How an Oscar-Winning Costume Designer Got Where She Is Today

Ruth E. Carter on Blackness, boldness and costuming history.

August 9, 2023

History

The Descendants of Runaway Slaves Are Fighting for Political Power

Across the Caribbean, women are leading this movement.

October 15, 2021