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Generation Y

11 November 2009

Generation Y
It’s been a long time since I was able to follow the blogs I read, partly because I’ve been doing so much other stuff but largely because I still can’t add bookmarks to Safari and I haven’t taken to other feed-readers. So I haven’t been discovering new blogs or dropping old ones — I [...]

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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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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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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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