Chagmion Antoine
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Chagmion Antoine is an award-winning journalist, producer and actor. At twenty three, she made history by becoming the first openly LGBT female journalist to be featured on national television as an anchor and reporter for CBS News in New York and MTV's Logo Channel. In her role at CBS, Antoine was a pioneer in covering intersections of gender, race and politics particularly in the lesbian, bisexual and transgendered communities. She has been included in various lists as a notable personality in the LGBT and black history. In 2007 she was featured alongside photographer Annie Leibowitz and writer Alison Bechdel (creator of the hit Broadway show “Fun Home”) in GO! Magazine’s “100 Women We Love”. She is currently a guest blogger for the Women Under Siege Project, a blog which covers sexualized violence in conflict. She is also an actor who has been featured on the popular CBS crime series 'Person of Interest', HBO's hit series 'Veep' and the Netflix series ‘House of Cards’.
Sub-specialites: Sextrafficking, Police Brutality / State Violence, Immigration, Gender Discrimination, Women and Minorities in Media
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Gay Iranian Arsham Parsi Talks to Chagmion Antoine for CBS News on Logo
Chagmion Antoine [July 9, 2015] -
The color of lawlessness: Sexual abuse by police, nationwide
Women Under Seige [May 4, 2016] -
'I thought that happens to other people': Being trafficked without knowing it
Women Under Seige [August 7, 2015] -
Renata Hill of the NJ4 Speaks
[May 26, 2009] -
The woman charged with stopping rape in Congo: A Q&A with Jeanine Mabunda
Women Under Seige [May 14, 2015] -
Chagmion Antoine - Guest Blogger - Articles
Women Under Seige
Maxine Waters was among the 4,000 leaders and activists who gathered for the Women's Convention to inspire intersectional movement building and to mobilize for the 2018 midterm elections.
No one should ever have to choose between starving to death and exposure to HIV, however millions of women and children struggling to survive in the drought-stricken countries of southern Africa aren’t being given a choice.
There have been eight reported murders of transgender women in the U.S. in the first three months of this year, and all of the victims were women of color. These crimes highlight some alarming truths about gender-based and racial violence.
At the Black Women’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, women and men broke silence about sexual violence and worked toward forgiveness, healing, and justice.
When I met Sophie Otiende, she was running late. I had reached out to her in December 2014 while I was in Nairobi doing research for a film about sex trafficking. Sophie and her boyfriend, Jakob Christensen, are volunteers at the anti-trafficking nonprofit HAART Kenya and had agreed to meet me for dinner. But as time wore on, I was beginning to think I’d been stood up.
When Congolese President Joseph Kabila tapped 49-year-old Jeanine Mabunda Lioko, a finance executive and a member of the National Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be his special representative on sexualized violence in July 2014, UN representatives hailed the appointment as a “new dawn” in the fight to end rape and child recruitment in the country’s 20-year conflict.
