Interdisciplinary Caribbean Artist, Educator and Activist
Neisha Wattley is a market vendor, who sells foods and vegetables with her husband, Chris Rambhal. Before Christmas this year, she lived in a windowless shack near a riverbank that neither had running pipe water nor electricity. In 2014, Wattley was in the eye of the media, on a matter of the home but something […]
Continue ReadingMachel Montano’s Bazodee (directed by Todd Kessler and written by Claire Ince) attempted to highlight the vivid colours of the natural landscape and ethnic solidarity/“real unity” between Afro and Indo Trinidadians. This solidarity is sometimes undermined by the racial stereotypes and antagonisms from the two majority ethnic groups. The film does not show the depth […]
Continue ReadingHas Facebook Live changed the game? Yes. In Minnesota, Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of the Philando Castile, went live on Facebook and actively reported the developments of what happened after her boyfriend was shot while sitting in his car at a traffic stop. In a way that was impossible before, the world had the chance […]
Continue ReadingAh not callin’ school names. Ah not callin’ no bredrin and sistrin name who was in dis one. Allyuh, know allyuhself and this is a very sensitive topic. “If you don’t know now you know N(inja)” – Christopher George Latore “Biggie Smalls” Wallace, Juicy (1994) In Trinidad and Tobago there is a game called Catch […]
Continue ReadingDid I hear you say that women’s sexuality could not only put them in danger of rape…but now murder? Mayor Tim Kee’s statement is precisely sexist. Linking your response of the death of a woman, the protection of women and the safety of women in Carnival to perceptions about their behaviour and performance is sexist. […]
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