A Brief Examination of Age as a theme in Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
What is your approach to ageing? Are you desperately keeping the grey hairs and aches at bay or are you anticipating the embrace of a slower paced life, possibly in retirement, or faster paced life completing the bucket list. This brief look at ageing in Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun nudges at these questions.
Performance of Long Celia by Nasaria Suckoo Chollette
Unna Hear Dem Drums!? WAKE UP - may we answer the call in this poem about Long Celia - whose spirit they could never capture
Book Review of Sheila Murray's Finding Edward by Mason Haigh
If the immigrant experience and that of minorities is a reflection of society’s values then what does it say about us when their stories never quite make it into the history books or have been hidden?
Video Performance of "Expanding" by Tara Downs
When you think of your grandmother, what sights, sounds, smells and senses do these memories inspire? In this video performance, we are invited to dance down memory lane
Daylight Denied - Discussion Essay on Race in "Daylight Come"
In this discussion essay, the author explores the depiction of race and perhaps, more accurately, post race considerations in this dystopian work “Daylight Come” by Diana McCaulay
This Girl Got Beef With Seeing Skin - Essay by JD
This essay by JD explores the fear of nudity and how some of our childhood experiences continue to live in our skins.
yes by MOON
This poem by MOON teases the soul, each line heady with desire and something stronger. Will you say yes?
My Mother in His House - Poetry by Neptune Naiadis
The eyes of the next generation bear witness to songs and wrongs in a home that is just a house…his house.
Black Joy - An Essay by Theophina Gabriel on the culinary mapping and seasoning of joyful memories through souse
“My essay uncovering the history and festivity around the dish from my mother’s eyes explores not just the celebratory joy it holds, but also the delicate ways of seasonal food preparation and preservation that are becoming increasingly lost to the diaspora”
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Review by Aisha Oni
This review of Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber examines some of the key ways in which this novel has stolen our hearts and remains relevant in its weavings more than 20 years after publication.
A nation of Queers and their Pride Flag - Discussion Essay by Reiya Lawrence
Reiya shares her thoughts on the Pride flag flying high in Jamaica. Are we allowed the tiniest sliver of hope that relevant pieces of legislation will be amended and the effect that could play on less progressive and discriminatory behaviour?
Breaking Water by Solare - Poetry
This week, we walk with the poet’s subject as she navigates the emotions immediately following an abortion. As best as she tries to release her load, her thoughts pull her down to the shadows.
Energy and the by-products of creativity by Richard Nattoo - Discussion Essay
This week’s discussion essay by visual artist Richard Nattoo dives deep into the shadows to resurface as whole—tapping into the dark and light, honouring all energies for an authentic rendering on the literal and figurative canvases with which we work. His image—An extract from Teeth Grid I—draws you visually into this conversation.
Performance of Miss Lou's Dutty Tough by Pauline Henry-Blake
In these times, this poem by the beloved Louise Bennett-Coverley may depict how many are feeling as we are inundated by storm showers (rain a fall) yet hard times prevail (dutty tough).
Bomber and the Breadfruit Tree
Would you cut down a tree, without planting its replacement, if immediately felt the dire consequences in your life?
A Duke, The Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley - Critical Book Review
Masterfully narrated by the acclaimed, award-winning actress Bahni Turpin, A Duke, The Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley, is an engrossing, evocative, and highly original historical romance that is especially moving as an audiobook.
Mama Ocean by Neptune Naiadis
"Mama Ocean" explores the relationship between a teenage mother and her son, Ocean, her trauma & postpartum depression. The poem thematically conveys elements of familial abandonment, teenage motherhood, depression, sexual assault - and birth as a result. The piece traverses her psyche, travelling from the beginning of innocence to the loss through metaphoric and allegoric language.
The Steir House Tour by Smicky - Flash Fiction
Things are not what they always seem at Steir House. Would you take a tour?
The Soliloquy of A Thousand Slaps by Solare
Young Anju is rewarded for defending his mother with an earful and several handfuls. The poem spotlights corporal punishment and its effects in raising our children