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PREE 6 RUB-A-DUB-DUB

Blood mas

I am asking with this body of work to include B L O O D M A S as part of the Jouvert experience. I ask that all victims of abuse and violence be given this voice.… Continue reading →

February 19, 2021February 19, 2021

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VOYEUR

A woman grooms her lover tenderly. She examines her lover’s face, scratching at scars and stroking wrinkles while her lover’s head rests snugly on her lap. They are an unlikely pair.… Continue reading →

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

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Island Influences

I must start off with a disclaimer. These images are not photographs. They were created digitally on a computer. … Continue reading →

February 18, 2021February 19, 2021

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Bookmarked and PREE ink

Save the date.12 noon on Feb 24, 2021, we’re celebrating the publication of our first print edition Bookmarked, and inaugurating our print arm, PREE ink, with a webinar in collaboration with the Shuttleworth Foundation. … Continue reading →

February 16, 2021February 24, 2021

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An Interview with Ingrid Persaud on Love after Love

An Interview with Ingrid Persaud on Love after Love

I write in English that requires no translation for the forty-four million people living in the Caribbean. This is the real English of a real place. Why I must translate into the English of a very particular minority who carry on like them own the language? Nah.

PREE 6

EDITORIAL

Now Boarding
Isis Semaj-Hall/Riddim Writer

RUB-A-DUB-DUB: A Note
Annie Paul

FICTION

Hummingbird Dub
Njelle Hamilton

Riddim of My Life
Lafleur Cockburn

Saffy’s Song
Sharma Taylor

Shedding
Richard Georges

ESSAYS

Strategies to escape the eyes of the state
Gervais Marsh

Dub: Rhythm, Rhyme, Roots
Tamara Belinfanti

POETRY

Cymande and Can I be a Queen
Sherese Francis

Upside Down Boat
Lelawatttee Manoo-Rahming

God save duh queen
Ide Amari Thompson

Douens
Chike Pilgrim

The Walk and Quarantine
Amanda T. McIntyre

My Lover
Maelynn Seymour-Major

Night Walk
Kay-Ann Henry

Doh Let Me Be Lonely
Celia Sorhaindo

The Makings of a Queen
kevanté a.c. cash

This Music in My Waist
Melissa A. K. McKenzie

Perspective
Jason Henry

Mi General 
Randy Baker

ART-ICLES

CLR Dub
Che Lovelace

SOUND

Mosquito (dubCLUB poetry)
Gavin Blair

BRAWTA

Voyeur
Paula David

Island Influences
Acquille Dunkley

Blood Mas
Adele Todd

Contents

PREE 6 RUB-A-DUB-DUB

Table of Contents

ESSAYS

DUB: RHYTHM, RHYME, ROOTS

TAMARA BELINFANTI

At root though, dub is soul-work. Dub is wisdom. It provides a template, or if you make it your own, a dub plate, for how the stripped down and refashioning nature of dub qua art form actually has personal lessons for living a life that reverberates with Dub’s soul and consciousness.… Continue reading →

November 16, 2020December 4, 2020

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Strategies to Escape the Eyes of the State

GERVAIS MARSH

Let’s not pretend that only poor people bleach because Uptown Susan looking browner these days too, using dermatologist approved creams to “brighten” her skin. But middle-class Black people build glass houses of respectability and everyone, my Uptown self included, benefits from the cultural production of poor Black people, freely adopting language, style and gestures.… Continue reading →

November 11, 2020November 24, 2020

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POETRY

The Makings of A Queen

kevanté a.c. cash 

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from he come out the closet in her tall plum heels,
wrists broken, hips sashayin’ with tied up bed sheets
draggin’ on the floor, i knew he was ga have a hard life.

… Continue reading →

November 16, 2020November 20, 2020

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DOUENS

CHIKE PILGRIM

We’s Douens
weird
bend foot addendums.
Jealous of attention
dwellers in Douendom … Continue reading →

November 16, 2020November 20, 2020

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The Walk/Quarantine

Amanda T. McIntyre

The culverts of June street converged 
at a point on the corner where 
the rum shop remained closed 
until further notice as Belmont approached 
the second half of the pandemic year.
Above the evening scene, the frame 
expanded into a partnership between
the sky and the northern range 
with tinsel lights of a settlement starring 
beneath the constellation of a tenement. 
I turned and began walking.

… Continue reading →

November 16, 2020November 20, 2020

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