we are all vulnerable, in a way
On the morning of Sunday, October 7, 2018, I turned on the television in a Miami hotel room and the NBC news scroll read: “Earthquake in Haiti, 11 dead.”* The…
Tag: Caribbean
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…
beyonce, formation, & contemporary black activism
Super Bowl L will go down in history as the Super Bowl that Beyoncé “slayed.” For the last several days the internet has belonged to the Queen Bey. Twitter subscribers,…
the meek shall inherit the earth
I recently visited the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery to see Jennifer Angus’ bugs. Big bugs on walls. Little bugs on walls. Lots and lots of dead bugs on walls. Even crushed and…
a good story
Located south of the Atlantic Ocean, east of Venezuela, west of Suriname, and north of Brazil one will find the intriguing English speaking country of Guyana. Despite being attached to…
a relationship of so much more
“[M]ove on from that painful legacy,” encouraged British Prime Minister David Cameron on September 25, 2015 as he spoke not just to a joint sitting of Jamaica’s Parliament, but to Jamaicans…
"write pon di riddim" 