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Posted on December 1, 2017December 1, 2017

the end is near

Today is World AIDS Day (#WAD2017) and this year’s campaign theme is “Let’s End It.”  World AIDS Day was the first global health day.  The worldwide day of recognition began…

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Posted on January 21, 2017November 18, 2019

sampling and sound’s effects

@Escofrass just released “Up Like Trump” last night (January 20, 2017) and I need to be very clear when I say that I do not rate this song. While the…

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Posted on January 20, 2017August 18, 2019

it’s even in the food

The period of disbelief is behind us and it is officially Inauguration Day. Last night, after watching a few painful minutes of Donald J. Trump speak about his “huge” wins…

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Posted on October 3, 2016December 21, 2016

Welcome (back) to Jamrock

On August 2, 2016 movers took the contents of my home and placed them into a shipping container. A few days later, on the 54th anniversary of Jamaica’s independence, with…

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Posted on April 5, 2016January 6, 2019

we say no, but do our bodies say yes?

“As lovers of conscious reggae music we respond to the rhythm with our bodies.” These are the words I wrote in my sx salon article to describe the way listeners show bodily…

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Posted on March 16, 2016January 6, 2019

repetition and repatriation

As the USA’s political passion heats up in response to Donald J. Trump, here is a reminder that we have been here before.  Undoubtedly, we have even been here before in the most literal…

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Posted on March 4, 2016March 4, 2016

pon di riddim & inna di salon

This is less of a post and more of a plug… My writing is featured in the latest installation of sx salon* (issue 21, February 2016).  Titled “Re-membering Our Caribbean…

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Posted on February 24, 2016November 22, 2019

finding the caribbean in rihanna’s jamaican work song

Published in 2007, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Dominican-American novelist and activist Junot Diaz remains my top pick for masculine, contemporary, aggressive, historical, feminist, political, Caribbean, border fiction.  Yes, it lives up…

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