Category: Pree Shorties

La Belle Creole: The Shape-shifter of The Atlantic

by ap | Dec 20, 2019 | Art-icles, Articles 4, Lisandro Suriel, PREE 4, Pree Shorties | 0 |

Lisandro Suriel Since the dawn of women, Creole has haunted the junctions between...

We will always run out of time if we keep trying to be what the world around us tells us who we should be

by ap | Dec 20, 2019 | Art-icles, Articles 4, Issue One: Crossroads, Pree Shorties | 0 |

Marinna Shareef I’m the type of person who would like to be the best they can be...

Waving Gallery

by ap | Dec 20, 2019 | Art-icles, Articles 4, Kelley-Ann Lindo, PREE 4, Pree Shorties | 0 |

Kelley-Ann Lindo From a very young age I would always go to the waving gallery at the...

Emancipatory Proposition

by ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa, Issue Two: Pressure, Pree Shorties, Pree shorties 2 | 0 |

Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa…j’écris en français pour dire aux Français que je ne suis pas français.Kateb Yacine, 1966 Crisis life. Life crisis. Crisis of life. Life of crisis. Crisis on life. Life on crisis. Crisis below life. Life...

Pressure Cooking

by ap | Nov 13, 2018 | Issue Two: Pressure, Pree Shorties, Tiffany Walton | 0 |

Tiffany Walton If you don’t have an entire day to spare, then you need a pressure cooker to cook goat, oxtail or cow foot. You have to wash the meat good first. Water and vinegar, and if it’s fish, you use lime juice. We don’t...

I Am Here

by ap | Apr 9, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Pree Shorties, Sarah Manley | 0 |

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

by ap | Apr 9, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Pree Shorties, Tanya Stephens | 0 |

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

by ap | Apr 9, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Javed Jaghai, Pree Shorties, Smadi Pitni | 0 |

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

by ap | Apr 9, 2018 | Issue One: Crossroads, Pree Shorties, Shivanee Ramlochan | 0 |

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...