Saint Lucia
Princess O'Nika Auguste is a St.Lucian Millennial writer, historian, cultural critic, and theologian who writes on History, PopCulture, Spirituality, Faith, Mental Health, Feminism, and Sexual Assault. She is also a podcaster, speaker, consultant, researcher, and editor.
Princess's work has been featured on PopCulture and Theology, Christian Feminism Today, LAPP, and Intersect Antigua.
She is a frequent contributor to the Popular Culture Dialogue Series.
She was a guest on Let's Talk About Myths Baby and Ancienthistoryfangirl podcasts
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By Princess O'Nika Auguste On March 5th 2020, one of my favourite pop singers, Katy Perry, released her song Never Wore White in which she reveals her pregnancy and where she discusses her relationship with actor Orlando Bloom. It is a beautiful song, but I believe that song is very problematic.
By Princess O'Nika Auguste [Click here to read Part One] Was Dinah Raped? Alice Ogden Bellis, in her book Helpmates, Harlots and Heroes: Women's Stories in the Hebrew Bible, discusses a debate between three scholars: Meir Sternburg, Danna Fewell and David Gunn. These scholars debated about whether or not Dinah was raped.
By Princess O'Nika Auguste We have been told the story of Dinah and how she was defiled by a Canaanite prince. However, in the popular culture hit miniseries, Red Tent, it was portrayed as a love story. A brutal rape has been turned into a romantic fairytale.
by Princess O'Nika Auguste In the biblical book of Esther, two women are given prominence: Vashti, the wife of the king of Persia at the beginning of the story, and Esther, who became the new queen after Vashti was banished for her disobedience to the king.
A ViewPoint by Princess O'Nika Auguste We teach girls shame. "Close your legs." "Cover yourself." We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves.
by Princess O'Nika Auguste This article is dedicated to Dr. Margaret Aymer, who encourages me and reminds me that I am a strong, womanish, Caribbean woman. It was inspired by my memories of Caribbean culture and by Dr. Aymer's article, "Outrageous, Audacious, Courageous, Willful: Reading the Enslaved Girl of Acts 12."
A ViewPoin t by Princess O'Nika Auguste After a jury found Stanford University athlete Brock Turner guilty in the sexual assault of an unconscious woman, there was a public outcry over the light jail sentence handed out by the judge. According to the judge, a harsher sentence for the young accomplished swimmer "would have a severe impact on him."
An interview with News Editor Janeka Simon on the texts on homosexuality
My partner was a beautiful Muslim woman, and I realized I was jealous of her. Why? Because even though I had never seen her hair under her hijab, I was sure that she must have good hair, not hard hair like I had been cursed with, but the good hair that everyone coveted.