The Verandah Post
A literary newsletter for Caribbean feminist readers — seasonal, essayistic, and unafraid to take a position.
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.
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.
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”
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?