multimodal site born to a decolonial feminist / cultural analyst / and dub doctor, Ph.D.
Hurricane Melissa has been referred to as a “generational storm,” a term that feels aptly cultural to Jamaica where parents, grandparents, and great grands all have survival stories to tell…
I’m back, Readers! It’s been a long while since I’ve planted words here, but I hope that you’ve been gardening like I have. Despite the last couple of months of…
If Jah9’s last album was an open note to self meant to encourage listeners to do the difficult fire work of slashing and burning the negativity that can eat away…
What do we as listeners/ viewers do with Lipstick Lover’s nontraditional entangling of Jamaican sound with queerness?
“Jah Shaka’s spirit lives on: Ashes to ashes, dub to dub.”
Some of us might recall that six years ago Jamaicans near and far were outraged on social media, in the newspapers, and on the television all because Ishawna posted an…
With exciting new storytellers emerging from the Caribbean, the world tour return of a reggae-dub icon, an inspiring new dancehall artist on the scene, and a mix of Garvey and…
The Past When I was a child growing up in the 1980s and 90s, I watched episodes of The Jetsons on Saturday mornings and I would be entranced by the…
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