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i want us to get to a place where we understand the articulation of slurs like "battyman" and "fish" as highly pleasurable. there are all kinds of pleasures embedded in

Were you part of ISCF in high school and are you now ghey? Did you have a crush on any man/woman of God? Did your home-of-seckshual tendencies act up while

Talking to a friend about how quickly we criticize older Jamaican people for stigmatizing mental health but maybe it might help to think about madness/insanity historically as an elastic sociopolitical

The reason I don’t like talking about cultural appropriation is that even that critical vocabulary is too entangled with the language of capital and property. There have to be (and

Just finished talking to my mom about family history. What an emotional conversation. I want to talk about how the rationality of the state’s archive can never contend with the

I get the rejoinder that “Jamaica is a Black nation” in response to creole multiracial nationalism’s call of “out of many one people,” but I wonder if it takes for

Hate how we talk about colorism as the less violent cousin to racism. Especially in Jamaica. Colorism does not just order the politics of desirability. It affects everything including who

Agreed. The argument that one Jamaican created Hip Hop is grossly overstated.Again, let's all read The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy.https://twitter.com/AfroJediii/status/1264421958927736832 British cultural theorist Paul Gilroy argued

I just don’t understand this obsession with “accessible language.” Can language be used to reproduce hierarchy? Sure.But it can also be an incredible gift. When you go to KFC, do

It’s the subtle things that remind me how class (and race) circulate in this so-called Jamaican Twitter space. And because classism is more than just about money, some of us