Ian Fleming’s James Bond Based on Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa
Rubi makes so much sense as the true inspiration for Bond. James Bond.
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BySoyiniLocal designer Ryan Chan has just released an adult colouring book. You know that I’m obsessed with them. Especially Caribbean colouring books. To the point where I had promised myself that I’m only allowed to buy Jade Gedeon’s Carnival Escape colouring book. I going to break that promise to include this gem. Some pages from…
Call for Papers—“Reckoning With Slavery”
BySoyiniThis is quite an interesting call for papers. I’ll try to monitor it.
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BySoyiniMeagan Sylvester shared this on her page last September 2nd. It popped up in my Facebook reminder and I thought, that this is the best place to post it, because it’s such a great list of papers and essays on our music and Carnival customs etc. So without further adieu: Mason, Peter. 1998. Bacchanal? The…
Jamaican Film Industry Needs Help
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Help Haitians, not the Disaster Capitalists — Tillah Willah
Disaster time again, for our sisters and brothers in Haiti. Already the vultures circle, using this tragedy as another opportunity to take advantage or worse, to engage in the pornography of suffering black bodies. Now is not the time for tears, hand-wringing, there are lots of organisations that are quietly doing good work in Haiti…