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The Gaulin Wife: Making Connections

29 January 2010

This is not the crux of Helen’s post, but I chose it to inspire people to want to read the whole thing. It’s crucial reading.
I have to remind myself to continue making connections, and to look for the triumphant in the stories of disaster, to look for the survivance in them, for the ways people [...]

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Womanish Words: Teach the Children Well

29 January 2010

Hear, hear, Lynn.
It upsets me when I hear the little children I know and love speaking in the the racist/religious/hateful language of the local Bahamian press/the moneyed elite/the generally ignorant. There are probably more than a million orphan children struggling to get through the day today in Haiti. It is natural for children to want [...]

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Follow-up to African Reading Challenge

26 July 2008

The fate of migrants is the same – Mediterranean, Atlantic Ocean, does it matter?
Laila Lalami linked to this photo-essay taken in Italy of North African migrants.
The similarities between the essay and what we see here with Haitian migrants are striking.
I’ve been carrying around Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits for days now, trying to make time [...]

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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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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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Can You See Us? (Video)

4 May 2008

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Can You See Us?

3 May 2008

Thanks to Erica James at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, I was led to seek out this series on the statelessness of children of Haitian parentage growing up in The Bahamas.  You’ll find it on YouTube.  I don’t know who made the movies, but every Bahamian should watch them — especially those Bahamians [...]

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The Long Silence

24 April 2008

I am never sure how to address this question — the question of my silence. It’s not that I am not thinking. It’s not that this blog isn’t important either. The challenge I have, though, is my position as a senior government official. More and more the things I have/want to [...]

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