a tropical snow storm is upon us
By now we have all seen the video by Evan Puschak @TheeNerdWriter where he takes Rolling Stone to task for calling Rihanna’s “Work” “tropical house.” Puschak opts to describe “Work” as…
permission to be “terrifying/ and strange/ and beautiful”
*An updated note (May 2, 2016) is offset with an asterisk below. Late Saturday night (April 23, 2016) I noticed that Twitter was buzzing. So what did I do? I tuned…
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…
weddings (and divorce)
I decided to write this blog as a way of owning my selfishness. With the dawning of spring comes the season of commitment. And with my sister’s wedding less than 48…
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…
5 Reasons You Should Be Reading Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Untwine’
Source: 5 Reasons You Should Be Reading Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Untwine’
