yes woman yes cry
Once, in a game we were playing, something terrible happened. A man had recently killed his girlfriend and a man who was his best friend when he found them…
Tag: Jamaica
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…
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…
climate change is real and fictional
A couple of days ago my dear and long-time friend, Caroline Mair, wrote a critical piece for the Trinidad Guardian titled “Climate Change, Refugees, and Migration.” Written from her outpost…
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" 