Imperialism in the Caribbean region has produced institutions and movements that have profoundly influenced and continue to influence the Caribbean region. Interpersonal conflicts related to gender, sex, and sexuality in one character represent colonization and its ongoing effects in the Caribbean region. Throughout the semester we read many novels that highlighted the subjectivity of Caribbean women and how they have been erased by race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. Elizabeth Nunez's novel, Bruised Hibiscus, is a Caribbean novel full of the complexities of colonization and patterns of power in the lives of individual men and women. Colonization is definitely represented as part of the problem in this novel; however, Nunez's readers realize the domination of men over women in European colonialism, as well as the differences between passion and power, black and white, male and female. Bruised Hibiscus is a dark exploration of power and sexuality due to the discovery of the body of a murdered woman which provokes the consciousness of both women. Empowerment created through interpersonal conflict often results in a life based on power exhibited through gender, sex, and sexuality. Over the course of the novel, Nunez readers are told two stories between two women, Rosa and Zuela, and the men who abuse them, along with other events on the island of Trinidad. During childhood, Rosa and Zuela witnessed an act; sexual violation of a young girl. After a long separation, Rosa and Zuela are reunited thanks to another act in which a woman is killed. Nunez used Trinidad and all the villagers to show the damage of European colonialism in how the villagers reacted to Rosa and Zuela's stories. ...... half of the document ...... sexuality being a lifelong learning process for each of these couples, it was an interpersonal conflict dominated exclusively by men. The geopolitical history and current effects shown in this new in the Caribbean region are being challenged daily. Interpersonal conflicts created through gender, sex, and sexuality are visibly displayed in both relationships. The effects caused by these conflicts on an emotional, spiritual and physical level are enormous. While the primary controlling factor is sexuality, race and gender are also contributing factors. Empowerment is the ongoing creation of having and exhibiting control that causes pain to everyone involved, even the abuser. Power and privilege, two very influential and offensive words, causing interpersonal conflicts that create lifelong emotional and physical damage.