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May
31
Why Tourism is detrimental to our culture
May 31, 2006 | 5 Comments
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 [...]
May
28
Christianism and other perversions of faith
May 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May
25
On Censorship
May 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May
25
It’s been a while
May 25, 2006 | 2 Comments
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 [...]
May
25
A really cool link
May 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Shared with me by Philip.
Keep clicking.
May
22
In Memoriam
May 22, 2006 | 2 Comments
Kayla Lockhart Edwards
March 21, 1946 - May 21, 2006
http://www.artsbahamas.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=311
May
19
Something to think about
May 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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, [...]
May
15
On Instant Information
May 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May
13
Midnight Robber
May 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
May
13
Home again, home again, jiggety-jig
May 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]