>It’s are fault Part 565,679
>Clint Romany casts an anxious glance across the grey bath mats that decorate the floor of his Luton bedsit. Adrian Clarke, his ex-boyfriend, fills his polka dot suitcase with t-shirts and the last slice of coconut bake. Between roll up cigarettes, he’s been taking calls from Enfield Council and the offer of a new home has just come in. He’s about to move for the third time in two months.
>These lovers are both survivors of sexual violence. Hounded out of their country of Trinidad for being gay. Put in an asylum seeker hotel for two years, then forced to leave their new home after being given an eviction notice brought about by their leave to remain. Like many refugees who have been given a Notice to Quit since August 2023, they were left on the edge of destitution.
>They come from a country in crisis. Once one of the richest states in the Caribbean, corruption, oil money, and narco-trafficking from South America has thrown 'Trini' into chaos. Clint blames the legacy of British colonialism in Trinidad, where, after taking over from the Spanish in 1802, the slave trade was banned in 1807, but freedom was only granted to enslaved people in 1833.
>Another legacy of the violence endemic to slavery is rape and posting on /leftypol/ual abuse, which is high on the island, according to research by the University of the West Indies. Just last October, local media reported an average of 1,395 reports of posting on /leftypol/ual abuse are made to the Children’s Authority each year, and almost all of the perpetrators are known to the victims. Clint says he was one of the those victims. Adrian too says he was raped repeatedly.