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I Am Here

Apr 9, 2018 |

SARAH MANLEY I am here mamma. I am here. When your ship docks in the Harbour after that abomination they called the ’middle passage‘ and you are released from the leg irons to stumble ashore terrified, decimated, emaciated, I am...

Breaking the Silences

Apr 9, 2018 |

TANYA STEPHENS Random thought . . . I hope in 2018 feminism will have a little pride and at least pretend to be about the protection and empowerment of disenfranchised females, EVEN WHEN the aggressors are ALSO FEMALE. Hopefully...

Swallowing Patwa

Apr 9, 2018 |

JAVED JAGHAI [This brief account was collated, with his permission, from a series of tweets by the author. Stories are being told, just not in the usual media.] I had an embarrassing experience in the summer of 2007 while...

Fat Joy

Apr 9, 2018 |

SHIVANEE RAMLOCHAN As I dressed myself for work today, I couldn’t get Hunger, Roxane Gay’s searingly personal memoir of her body, out of my mind. Since growing fat, I’ve made so many negotiations with myself, and no, not all of...

Jamaican Letters: Past, Present, Future

Apr 9, 2018 |

KEI MILLER, MARLON JAMES, NICOLE DENNIS-BENN at the Key West Literary Seminar, January 13, 2018. INTRODUCTION BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO Introduction Key West is a small island in the Straits of Florida with historic ties to...