From the monthly archives:

May 2006

Why Tourism is detrimental to our culture

31 May 2006

And by tourism I don’t mean the industry; I mean the Ministry.
The main reason — and I will have to wait to cool off for a little while before I write about it in earnest — is that the Ministry of Tourism appears to have very little real respect for Bahamian cultural workers.
Granted, in the [...]

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Christianism and other perversions of faith

28 May 2006

I have the great fortune of being a subscriber to Time.com.  Now that may not mean anything to many people, and it may mean something politically suspect to others, but for me it means that I have the opportunity to access and read a very interesting op-ed article on the political movement that has called [...]

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On Censorship

25 May 2006

A couple of months ago, the entire Bahamian community was convulsed by the banning of the movie Brokeback Mountain. All sorts of people weighed in on the issue, but the argument never really got off the ground. The reason for that was that there were really two arguments going on. One was [...]

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It’s been a while

25 May 2006

since I visited Laila’s blog, but I thought this post was pertinent to us here and now.
Edwidge Danticat is a Haitian-American novelist, and considered one of the finest contemporary writers. What she has to say about the current American immigration policies should have resonance for us, because it is equally true of our ambivalence.
When [...]

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A really cool link

25 May 2006

Shared with me by Philip.
Keep clicking.

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In Memoriam

22 May 2006

Kayla Lockhart Edwards
March 21, 1946 – May 21, 2006
http://www.artsbahamas.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=311

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Something to think about

19 May 2006

While the media/church/politicians/whoever determines what governs people’s opinions talk about homosexuals and same-sex unions, stepparents are being left behind, according to this article in Time.
While we closely monitor how gay rights are granted and taken away, we pay almost no attention to the fact that stepparents are in the same legal limbo. Despite being ubiquitous, [...]

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On Instant Information

15 May 2006

In November of last year, my husband was offered a short-term job in Michigan as a guest director at a small liberal arts university. He went, of course. I stayed behind; I have my own job. But while he was gone, we were in communication on a daily basis – and we [...]

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Midnight Robber

13 May 2006

Flying back and forth from New Orleans (for the Jazz and Heritage Festival) gave me the opportunity to read the second of Nalo Hopkinson’s books, Midnight Robber.
A couple of years ago I bought and devoured Brown Girl in the Ring, her first book, highly acclaimed. I loved it, mainly for personal reasons, but also [...]

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Home again, home again, jiggety-jig

13 May 2006

This week had its own interesting stuff. On Monday and Tuesday I was involved in meetings with experts brought to Nassau by Daniel Glaser, NESTA Fellow who worked with Winston Saunders during the latter part of 2005 and the beginning of 2006, and who co-wrote with me the Draft National Cultural Policy.  Meetings were held [...]

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