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Good morning and a hearty "Fuck you" to US reporters describing Caribbean islands as "speed bumps" for hurricanes.
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@MichelleFamessa
@thatgirldada
@jurassicpatek
I feel like folx should be madder at the system that makes one person feel as if they have to be held hostage in order to, according to you, ensure than an entire cast and crew be employed...?
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@PaulaRILindo
Round the 0:22 mark
In this video, The Weather Channel (U.S.) shows us what's happening in the tropics at 8:50 AM on Sunday, June 30, 2024.
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#WeReadJamaicaKincaid
Update
We are a little over a week away from the start of our ambitious, exciting project: to read all of Jamaica Kincaid's full length, single authored works. We start in January with AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER (1983). Check…
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Jamaica was a plantation economy. Anyone here with an established business pre-Emancipation (and some time after) made money from slavery whether or not they owned a plantation. The information (obscured) is on the walls of the "museum" at the synagogue downtown.
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As I read the email from Blackwell's informing me that it will no longer ship books to Jamaica, I just need to re-state how US/UK publishers buy world English rights by default to distribute books in a retail system that has zero interest in anywhere beyond the "global north".
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Looking for myself I don't trust this thread based on Rick Riordan's inclusion. He is a two state solution person which some may call foolish at this point but hardly Zionist...posted from October 17.
Authors you should cancel for supporting the genocidal Israel a thread—
#FreePalestine
🇵🇸
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@AGeekwithaHat
The Twelve Kingdoms
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Beauty and the Best (1987)
The Americans
The Wine Show
I don't keep up with most current stuff these days. My "to watch" list stretches into eternity...
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Yikes. Best just to share the sources because this articulation of whatever was learned is blinkered, not least because the person names "coloured" as a racist term informed by white supremacy without recognising that "black" must then be the same.
I made my first video last night. I’ll make more later this week when I have time to sit down. I’m not having this conversation in bad faith and I’m not arguing feelings. I actually have historical facts and have done research that led to this.
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@MichelleFamessa
@thatgirldada
@jurassicpatek
In a thread about attempted suicide you have chosen to *make stuff up* (she "probably" got a raise etc) to help excuse or justify the mass judgement that helped cause it in the first place. Reasses. I leave it there.
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Strange Horizons is a magazine I've read since I was a baby undergrad fantasy nerd. And now I have an essay in the
@strangehorizons
Caribbean issue: "Rearticulations on New Ground: Diaspora Terraforming in Black God's Drums and Ring Shout"
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My writing is in a book
This is all very surreal. The essay I submitted for what I thought was an online magazine turned out to be a book. Out now in print and eBook format is DIVERGENT TERROR: AT THE CROSSROADS OF QUEERNESS AND HORROR edited by W…
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@Ryan_Ken_Acts
The way Mr booty hole could not even reach the rejection response before his eyes darted around as he fantasized. I yam deceased.
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Including the ports at Kingston Harbour. And while y'all are addicted to extricating yourselves from the history all of those groups benefitted from a racist society with racist laws. And flourish now from exploitation of the majority (as do the rest of African descent).
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Also, the very wild idea that the US civil rights movement was *the* "blue print" for South Africa's apartheid movement when even a simple reading of Nelson Mandela's unabridged biography would develop a more expansive...like where are the sources for this cracked code, please.
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UK didn't let Black people in till the 1970s?! Goddess above. I think I get what dem going for but probably what they need to do is put down the US scholars and read scholars from the rest of the diaspora about which dem wah have an opinion. Some without a global north degree.
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Also, how do we abolish Caribbean relatives commenting on weight as a greeting.
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Exact thought I had on the AG response. If children cannot be held to any faith bc they are too young to profess, time to revamp entirely how religion is embedded in the pre-K to high school educational system.
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Caribbean women writers hold such frightening power over my life. How do you stand it?
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@saymantix
Long Bay Beach, Portland. Free. There are a few bars and food shops along the stretch at very affordable prices because country.
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An easily accessible indication of this is reading magazines like Planter's Punch and taking note of all of their VERY recognisable surnames and company names. Sick of this rhetoric.
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#MeetTheBookstagrammer
Hi! I'm Akilah aka Kiki. I've lived in Jamaica most of my life besides a decade's stint in Canada. I love to be in the water, to savour pastries, particular beloveds, and my own solitude. I am one of those queers who knows n…
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What's not clicking about the fact that Jamaica as a country is a colonial creation, with wealth created from a colonial economy we have yet to break out of tied to a global economy where majority of the global powers created their wealth from...GUESS.
@kenyatta_pow
No one said it should be left out. Rather, it need not become the ENTIRE conversation, especially where it is not the topic
There is literally nothing else of focus other than slavery. It ends the conversation on creating wealth before it has even begun
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@Limerick1914
Thank you for pointing out that enslaved Africans started and led the fight against slavery. To see even those who think they were "correcting" the original tweeter asserting that Britain led the anti-slavery movement was appalling.
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Step back from the trilogy structure. It's tired. You're stretching out entertaining duologies AT BEST to trilogy drainers.
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Thrilled and honoured to interview Myriam J. A. Chancy about her visionary debut that explores themes of queerness, sovereignty, and self-determination.
Virtual event announcement: Spirit of Haiti’s 20th anniversary edition, by Myriam J. A. Chancy, who will be in conversation with
@akilamantado
Nov 1, 6pm EDT. Register now:
Preorder here: and take 30% off with code HERITAGE1023!
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I find arguments like this tired. The publishing industry puts out what feels like 50 tril books per year. Readers have all kind of filters, systems, whims and fancies for why they pass on one. A cover is one of them. Especially if it's a samey cover.
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My essay on Annie John for
@badformreview
Jamaica Kincaid week. I cited
@WEChangeJA
,
@RebelWomenLit
and
@intersect_anu
as part of the pathway that led me back to this high school assigned novel I read when I was young and wanted to forget many things.
'Caribbean women writers hold such frightening power over my life. How do you stand it?'
Read Akilah's essay on 'Annie John' for our Jamaica Kincaid week with
@picadorbooks
!
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Having read Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kincaid and Astrid Roemer with her first book translated into English, it's clearer to me that only patriarchy (and how coloniality fed it) allowed the men to be any kind of face of Caribbean literature.
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Ooooo. This argument is carefully and persuasively built.
“Differences Die At The Door”: A post-mortem of Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop
Madeline Blondeau rolls up her sleeves and dissects where the adaptation went wrong, from toxic masculinity to the adaptive team's previous work
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It's year 5 for
#ReadCaribbean
month! I'll be highlighting translated fiction from Haiti and Suriname, memoir, fiction and poetry from Trinidad Tobago, feminist nonfiction from a lesbian writer and poet laureate from Jamaica, children's lit and more!
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In honor of World
#Afrohairday
, quote this tweet with a picture of you with your hair out.😌
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📚 FORA Book Donation Drive 📚
From One Reader to Another is a project I founded to help build and maintain the Boston Beach Cultural Centre library in Portland, Jamaica. Project supporters order books from my curated list of titles and I'll mail th…
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@ClintSmithIII
@colsonwhitehead
It's... something to see black folks in the Caribbean doing the same thing. It's.... something.
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I got three acceptances in the past few days for pitches and as a reader for a magazine. Good end to the year. 🥰
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No! THIS is the author that Literati Twitter, including LIT HUB, decided to defend? Roxane Gay?????
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Paid Bookstagram campaign for a Jamaican British writer set in Jamaica and every hand holding the book is white. Yes, it's the UK publisher.
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@Oscreads
The ones that kill me are the "obstacle course" giveaways as I describe them. Join 10 accounts, share each one's post in stories, like at least 20 other posts, follow all of our WordPress blogs, and sign up for our newsletters.
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I do think that sometimes us American(ized) Black folks, when abroad, forget that we're still *Americans* in those contexts; our passports, dollars, language etc. can all cause us to be seen not just as visitors but oppressors, with our actions then viewed under that light. [5/x]
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I wish most who responded engaged with her point because she's right, imo. Jamaican media focuses on the dance and neglects her spiritual beliefs + practice and how they inform her philosophy, for the most part. That's my experience. 🤷🏾♀️
I wish foreigners didn't need to come here for me to learn so much about Dr. L'Antoinette Stines. No idea she practices a Yoruban religion
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If your anthology not coming like this I don't want it.
ifthisisparadise is known for Caribbean literature but that wasn't planned. An array of factors influenced its current form, one of which was reading foreign takes on Caribbean books and th…
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"Decentred Lit is a quarterly book subscription service based in Jamaica that foregrounds marginalised authors of colour from across the world and ships to the world...We run on love, anger, queerness, and fire."
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#ReadCaribbean
🌺 Read the world
Today I present my TBR because mi unruly, I took the pictures before I checked the challenge (4th pic), and mi never intend fi tek no more at this time. Bright start to the month! (
@bookofcinz
nah beat me.)
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I'm hosting a GLOBAL SOUTH GIVEAWAY for *three* copies of
@EdenRoyce
's treasured novel debut, fresh from its
@fiyahlitmag
IGNYTE Awards win for Best Middle Grade Novel! To enter: RT, follow the author and add it to Goodreads/Storygraph (respond with a screenshot).
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@tarrrbabyyy
@JAMAiwuyor
Read the article. It's a review of several books that will provide even further context. If you have a local library and the books aren't there I'm sure it would welcome requests. You appear to be very curious about the time period and luckily there's plenty of relevant books.
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@maestroxv_
@kingsleyscorner
All this means is that being a better being is an ongoing project. The thread starter didn't asked for human perfection: he asked for work.
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The next time some of you lot start bawling about book piracy take note of which groups of authors, especially the immigrants, are dead silent.
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That's because research has been done to show that the path to successful second language instruction is to teach students in their first language. That is, English is actually Jamaican's second language and a key to easing that struggle is treating it as such, officially.
@TeraLepido
I can never understand people pushing patois as an official language when so many of our people are struggling with the English language.
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And your governments work very hard to ensure that in the global financial system our banking systems are the most regulated and least validated while dirty money runs through yours problem-free. Which means we can't assume that your retailers will recognize our cards.
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@strobieri1
@Lani_redd
@ceewinniexo
And anti-blackness is worldwide which I believe was the point trying to be made here. It's not a refutation of the Uyghurs situation. Relax and allow persons to centre and be angry about THIS thread's focus, ma'am.
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Is this where I mention how, as a Caribbean reader, often the priciest books at the indie stores were Caribbean titles?
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Crazy to me to see a Black man in the US say this when you consider the work Black women in the US do on their behalf over their own interests and well-being. Uunu really ought to experience what it would be like to have them despise you. Hope to see it in my lifetime.
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It took me two years but I finally started The Half-Drowned by Trynne Delaney. A dystopian fiction interested less in escape from the ravaged earth than in knowing it and letting that recreate us. I taste the mud, I smell the salted rot, the metal necklaces weigh down my neck.
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Let's talk about
#DifficultWomen
in literature
Tonight at 7:30 PM ET/Jamaica time I'll be on IG live with Tanya Baston-Savage, publisher extraordinaire of
@bluebanyanbooks
, to talk about difficult women characters and the overall impact the women …
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I'm in a zone where I could read only Haitian literature for 2024 and be perfectly content. Reading "Framing Silence" by Myriam J. A. Chancy, "The Emperor" by Makency Orcel (as translated into English by Nathan H. Dize) and Edwidge Danticat's foreword to Irline François'
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So it turns out my words are appearing in a book...💀
Here it is! The official table of contents for DIVERGENT TERROR: The Crossroads of Queerness and Horror featuring
@weardjupiter
,
@x_leforce
,
@MarkAGunnells
,
@clundoff
,
@Cat_Voleur
,
@eew_christman
, and more! Plus an introduction by
@AaronDries
. More info coming soon!
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@Mekiedoll
It's not a hindrance to the discussion, it's the engine and the fuel of it. Anyone who wishes to downplay that betrays a lack of understanding that should lead them off the playfield and into a library.
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Why are some committed to presenting reading as an activity for "the studious & the academics"? It's never "folx learn differently" or "we don't all have the same 24 hrs", it must be "intellectuals w/ books!" vs "the masses". The latter is code for something else, friends.
I’ll always encourage reading BUT Feminism is for the women masses, not just the studious & the academics. Talk whatever you want to talk, even if you are olodo, even if it’s tiktok rubbish, talk how the shoe is pinching you, let the academics in our midst counter your “rubbish”
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This entire thread on how big publishers of Caribbean literature dismiss and disrespect Caribbean book reviewers and sellers. 💕
As a young book blogger in 2011, I was frustrated & discouraged by massive international publishers' 'inability' to provide physical ARCs of Caribbean books to the Caribbean. It never occurred to me to challenge that system like
@BookOfCinz
,
@akilamantado
and others are now.
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I can't disagree with this because, even though I've experienced less judgement of my twist outs, my fro is still seen as a spectacle. But I always got the worst reactions to my natural hair in Jamaica eg strangers on the road calling me mad or asking me when mi a go barber.
The natural hair movement of the 70s was about embracing aesthetic afro-centrism. The natural hair movement of the 2010s made it so that all those very styles were no longer considered socially acceptable/“done” as natural hair. 1/2
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@tarrrbabyyy
@JAMAiwuyor
From "Speech and Slavery in the West Indies" by Fara Dabhoiwala in the New York Review of Books. The excerpt starts with: "As atrocious as the treatment of the enslaved was in North America, it was incomparably worse in the Caribbean." Read the rest here
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@vixxsingh1
@Tolani_tade
@nav_kaur15
Oh please, the Scottish and Irish were involved. Follow
@Limerick1914
and don't waste everyone's time (including your own) with this tired nonsense.
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I am a finalist in the Critics Award category for the 2022 Ignyte Awards. Yeah. I don't even fucking know.
The first Ignyte Awards was held during the very first FIYAHCON in 2020. Although the con itself is on indefinite hiatus the Ignyte …
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Yep—that's me. Very grateful to who I know submitted my name for consideration. (I just know. 😂) Grateful to the longlist jury who made me a finalist. I re-read the email close to 10 times because I couldn't believe it.
The
#IgnyteAward
for Critics (The Ignyte Critics Award) considers reviews and analysis of the field of speculative literature. Here are the finalists:
Akilah White
@QueenOfRats
@arleysorg
@Rich_in_Color
@ThistleVerse
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Village Weavers is about the rich, complicated, sustaining and soul destroying ways women love women as mothers, sisters, daughters, friends, lovers and how the spirits, race, gender, and class as these are understood in Haiti complicate those relationships. Rush to get this one.
✨🌻Happy Pub Day! 🌻✨
Village Weavers by Myriam J. A. Chancy is out today!
“For fans of Elena Ferrante, Village Weavers is a wistful look at a complicated female friendship that spans decades and continents.”
—TIME, a Best Book of April
Read more:
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@televisionjam
Stop drink mad puss piss. And put them in whofa hands: the state? Suh dem can mash up further? Dyamn eediats, who seh dis.
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Best haul I've gotten in a while. New speculative short stories collections from
@sillysyntax
,
@EdenRoyce
, and
@dsfxyz
. (There's a few more but these are the most Twitter relevant.)
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Without sourcing it's too easy for random folx to make up shit based on whatever. I think Mandel's inclusion is based on years old tweets from a trip to Israel where she was excited about learning to shoot at a range or something. I found it creepy as fuck but please. 😑
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In the midst of "The Story of a New Name" I declare my new status as a handmaiden in the Ferrante cult. Join hands with us and read every Neapolitan novel so you may enter with us into joy (of a painful, searing, addictive kind).
Our final list! Till 2030, everyone. (Unless we're in waterworld by then in which case check out our list of map tattoos that defined the 2020s.)
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Omitting collected works, who are the Top 5 authors in your library by number of books on your shelves?
Maryse Condé 👑
Olive Senior 👑
Jamaica Kincaid
Dionne Brand
Myriam J. A. Chancy
Omitting collected works, who are the Top 5 authors in your library by number of books on your shelves?
Kazuo Ishiguro
Sarah Waters
Jane Austen
Shirley Jackson
Khaled Hosseini
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May means
@calabashfestival
Now that I've aired all questions and confusions I can be 100% excited for Jamaica's major literary festival: Calabash. It happens during one weekend under a big tent by the sea. Unlike other book festivals Calabash has …
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Who should I tag in this one? Any suggestions? I'm sure there is still time to enrol.
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Imagine the sea being the least known area on the planet but confidently claiming, using *sonar*, that they found an area absent of "marine life". Let's not even address the impact of sonar itself. 🥴
@AmeriKraut
@LennessyBlack
Do your research before y’all have think pieces, that’s my ship CVN78, we use sonar to make sure we aren’t anywhere in the vicinity of marine life prior to detonation. We actually had to hold off a few times to relocate prior to releasing the bomb to make sure.
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And this is why I haven't and won't ever read Heartstopper.
It warms my cockles to see most responses to this tweet being
#Heartstopper
, mostly because of the way that the series borrowed (appropriated?)
#BL
tropes and then had fans (and an author🙃) claiming that the series had "better rep" than East/SE Asian queer media
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That thread is so thorough I cannot believe its detractors have tried to present it as some reactive lark. Just...wtf.
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On Jewish links to plantations throughout the Americas: . I remember this article because I attended the same event with a friend at the synagogue. We were shocked to see Jewish traders work described as importation of "produce and manufactured goods".
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@Yemen___8_9_18
@TheRealRynnstar
Bless your heart but genocide against indigenous folx in the Americas became legit government policy officially and unofficially for different colonizers. Like, it extends beyond the Columbus "encounter". The Trail of Tears? You need to read more.
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The thing that gets me about this whole conversation are the folx who think Kindles are the solution. I build my physical library slowly, deliberately, necessarily sacrificing other things, because I am terrified that the disappearance of films and TV shows will happen to books.
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#WeReadJamaicaKincaid
with Lucy
LUCY is the book for April + May, a return to Kincaid's fiction which she described as her last autobiographical work. May Zoom and newsletter sign up links in bio!
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Confused by the younger diaspora writers who plaster the country and flag all over the marketing for their works but appear allergic to reading/recommending, any authors who are actually uhh from here. The flag never sew up a Betsy Ross yard, FYI.
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One of if not the biggest bank in Jamaica is NCB and guess how THAT one started out? But it's not just NCB it's the banking system. It's insurance. It's tourism. It's agriculture. It's education. Your parishes. The political system. Your "best schools".
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Okay. If part of Olive Senior's mandate as Jamaica's Poet Laureate is to raise environmental awareness, it would be a perfect time to re-release her debut poetry collection Talking of Trees. 👀
#SeniorSquad
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To set the record straight: Indigenous bookstagrammers reached out to
@SagaSFF
for Stephen Graham Jones' The Only Good Indians and were ignored. White bookstagram in the form of Jordy's Book Club and Boston Book Fanatic got access to those same ARCs for a "mystery book club" +
Indigenous bookstagrammers reached out to a publisher about getting review copies of a book by an Indigenous author. They were ignored. White bookstagrammers responded by offering up the ARCs they were sent to try to help every Indigenous bookstagrammer who wanted one.
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Who do all of these dream residences look like ugly university dorms. Why the interior design always a mess (what are those colour combos and ol' bruk looking furniture???)? I need someone to break this down for me.
Feast your eyes on this turn key fully furnished 2 BR, 1 bath 900 sqft Apt.
Centrally located in New Kingston, the unit is being sold fully furnished
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This apartment is an investors dream!
Lets talk 🇯🇲🏡
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@WadeMcGrath
It's shoddy work to rely on a single study or lean so heavily on correlation. Your take has long been very contentious and oft refuted in the field. I suggest you do more reading especially on how to better do and evaluate research. (Ask a librarian for help!)
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I want to give so many ratings to whoever organised the Anglophone audience panel for recognising an "Anglophone" Caribbean person as multilingual. It's a big deal.
#FIYAHCON
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Blue by Emmelie Prophète translated by Tina Kover. It is land, time and memory travel. It is love, pain and family. It is coffe, mirrors, blood and cemeteries. It is about being broken and trying to be whole. It is the sea. Read Blue.
if there’s one book you’ve read in 2022 you’re begging everyone to read, what would it be i’m curious*
*read: bored at work
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How can Caribbean dialect be "jarring" in a Caribbean book? I'm so fucking tired of you all.
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I always find the framing of this discussion around "permission" disingenuous from creators living a foreign.
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It was a lovely surprise to be included. There's a great range of accounts, check it out!
The Caribbean Book Influencers You Need to Know 📚
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The what
If New Line really commits to Rohan horse culture in the new LOTR movie they will have a massive, massive hit on their hands.
@zemthings
has opened my eyes to that corner of internet.
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It's always hellish when Jamaican Twitter attempts to call out misogynistic behaviour in men because its starting position is homophobia (which misogyny informs).
Just...
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The QTs to this getting weird lol. I hope folx know "Caribbean" is as rooted in colonialism as "West Indian". (Also English...?) We can get into all of the different histories and contexts that shape the two but the first is also messy. No need to get self righteous about it...
Dear Americans, people from the Caribbean are called Caribbean People or West Indian.
Never in your life Caribbeans
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To coincide with
#CaribbeanHeritageMonth
in the US
@BookOfCinz
started
#ReadCaribbean
in June to encourage all of us everywhere to read Caribbean literature this month. This will be my thread to track my selected reads.
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