Body Protesting: Slave Philippian Slave Girl
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In Acts 16: 16-18 we are introduced to the unnamed slave Philippian slave girl with a spirit of divination who encountered the apostle Paul. This girl despite her circumstances as a slave followed Paul and called out Paul and his male companion. I argue in this paper through a postcolonial feminist lens that the slave girl used her gift of prophecy to body protest the colonization that Paul was about to initiate . Body Protesting is a termed coined by Michelle Alexandre to refer to women using their bodies to express liberation and transformation. . Women in the Caribbean especially black women have tried to body protest persons who are trying to control them, take away their identity and to oppressed them. Sometimes