Editorial: PREE 8
And just like that the twenty-first century has turned twenty-two. Its 21st year had been ruinous...
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Category: Annie Paul
Rub-a-dub-dub: A note
ANNIE PAUL
“Ghosts in the mix, duppies in the machine”–according to Chude-Sokei dub taught the world how to listen, how to ‘read’ sound.
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Editorial: Race and Racism in the Caribbean: “So many knees on so many necks”
The image anchoring this text is a photo of a John Crow Blow Nose or Basket Stinkhorn Fungus taken by the ceramicist David Pinto. Its hideous beauty perfectly symbolizes the raw and smelly wound of systematic racial and class discrimination still haunting the Caribbean. It’s an unpleasant thing to face down but face it we must.
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Editorial Notes: ECOCIDE
The scene opens: somewhere on an island she sits in a dark room contemplating what lies beyond....
Read MoreCrossroads Issue 1: Letter from the Editor
ANNIE PAUL As the note on our theme says, the Caribbean has always existed at a crossroads of one kind or another, and nearly a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the Caribbean remains at a crossroads. The artist...
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Reggae’s Voice: The Accent of Difference
ANNIE PAUL and MIKIE BENNETT In February 2018 the new Netflix-BBC TV series Collateral debuted,...
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