How does tourism in the Caribbean affect the people who live there and engage with it daily? Fulbright Scholar and lecturer at the Institute of Gender and Development Studies, St. Augustine, Dr. Angelique V. Nixon examines this question in her new book, Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture, which will be launched on … Continue reading
The T&T Film Festival’s New Media exhibit on the works of the late Peter Dean Rickards drew a large crowd of appreciative viewers not only from T&T but the Caribbean, especially his native Jamaica. The pictures shown were beautifully simple, almost stark, evoking a range of emotions from laughter and nostalgia to disgust and sadness. … Continue reading
Acclaimed writer Earl Lovelace will be attending the 12th edition of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA) in Haiti, from August 21 to August 30. He will be a keynote speaker at a two-day symposium themed “The Caribbean, a Collective Memory,” which will question the issue of reparations and how the history of the … Continue reading
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Post 153. Why pursue what many consider a lost cause? Battles that seem like they are no longer or never were worthwhile, ones you can expect to be opposed by the majority or by Goliaths around you, ones about which too few seem to care. Should you simply abandon struggles you…
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Vile and Oblivious Politicians Support State Violence Against Children At least three recent stories in Caribbean media have highlighted the systemic rape of boys and girls in state care and the horror houses known as children’s homes. Getting raped while literally under the care and protection of…
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Laughing at boys who are raped The Jamaica Observer recently subjected readers to the most crass and reprehensible of cartoons which pokes fun at the rape of boys in institutionalized care. Yes, they invited readers to laugh at the fact that boys were being raped. A UN…
Originally posted on Feminist Conversations on Caribbean Life:
A longstanding feminist activist in Barbados walked out of a panel discussion in protest of what she felt were misogynist comments from one of the speakers. Said speaker is the recipient of the Gold Crown of Merit and has been on a near 15-year tirade of misogyny masquerading…
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