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…
Category: dub-text
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"write pon di riddim" 