From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Creating an Asphalt Garden

29 June 2008

I thought this was an interesting article.
Creating an Asphalt Garden | Views | TheRoot.com

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Dissent, Power, and Politics

28 June 2008

Well, from Jamaica, this is interesting:
PM Golding has invoked the Staff Orders rule that says governmental officials must keep their traps shut when their individual positions conflict with existing gov’t policy. Not an atypical move for him to make. But, it really does and should sweet us when we see cracks in the veneer of retrograde, unsubstantiated [...]

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Shout-Out to Eemanee & Long Bench

18 June 2008

Hypocrisy & HIV in the Caribbean (Eemanee)
Responses to HIV in the Caribbean are hampered by an entrenched hypocrisy, homophobia and false trotting out of “christian” values when convenient. meanwhile people continue to have sex, all kinds of sex, a lot of it unsafe.
We feel free to talk around sex, to joke about sex, to sing about [...]

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“Red”

16 June 2008

Geoffrey Philp reads a poem here, called “Red”. It’s about being in between.
As Philp writes:
And while this poem does not adhere strictly to the form [the ghazal], it did allow me to play with the word “red,” which at the start of the poem refers to a biracial person or “half-caste.”
 
 

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Microwave not recommended to bake a quality bread product

13 June 2008

I’m baking a frozen roll of French bread for breakfast.  That’s what it said on the package.
Know this.  As long as I’m awake, little things run through my head, rather like the ticker tape display you see at stock markets.  Little communications from my subconscious flash across my conscious mind and distract me from what [...]

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There are days

12 June 2008

There are days, Mama, when there is far too much to do to do anything much at all.
This week has been pretty much like that.  It’s a week when I wish I was like earthworms or amoeba — slice me up and let me regenerate into six or seven mes.  (Biologists, don’t bother — leave [...]

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Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing

12 June 2008

Tim Wise: Your Whiteness is Showing
I’m sure that others have linked to this before me, and I’m coming late to the party, but –
it’s fun.
And rings true.
See for yourself.
This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their commitment to feminism, are threatening to withhold [...]

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Budget

9 June 2008

The Bahamas’ budget debate is taking place now.  As a civil servant, I am not free to comment as I would like.  So I’ll just ask questions instead.
I am listening to the debate, and the rhetoric is impressive.  But what is the reality?  Is this budget really preparing us for the 21st century?  Do we [...]

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Womanish Words: Amnesty International Report 08

9 June 2008

Womanish Words: Amnesty International Report 08
Lynn Sweeting reviews Amnesty’s 2008 report.
What’s most interesting, and relevant, is this part of her post:
But here is the biggest shocker of all:
“The Bahamas has the highest rate of reported rapes in the world, according to a joint report issued in March by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime [...]

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The Gaulin Wife

9 June 2008

The Gaulin Wife – Helen Klonaris’ blog

Lynn Sweeting sent me this link today, and it’s with much pride that I announce it here.  I’m not always so excited about new blogs, but I know Helen, I know her work, and I encourage everybody who’s interested in thinking differently about ourselves as Bahamians take the time [...]

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