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Streaming is the site where young audiences learn about products, discuss current events, and increasingly, engage in their politics. In Trinidad and Tobago, Syphifted is a content creator who began growing audiences in the thousands in her house as a gamer. She is one of millions of youth globally who have constructed their futures online […]
Continue ReadingBoth the People’s National Movement (PNM) and the United National Congress (UNC) have posted photographs of children in the images of campaign engagements. Children in political media is not a problem in itself, some children in the media are children and relatives of candidates, children of prominent community-based political activists, and also children whose parents […]
Continue ReadingIn Trinidad and Tobago, you would be shocked to learn how much a very specific term like “recalcitrant,” especially when married to the word “minority,” is part of the popular vocabulary. The phrase “recalcitrant minority” has a particular resonance in the “young, multiethnic, multicultural, newly-independent state” (Rohlehr 1997, 849). Rohlehr’s description of the society in […]
Continue ReadingSpoiler alert: Sociological critique of the construction of a white man’s paradise and neo-colonial gaze with reference to the Caribbean. “The national bourgeoisie organises centres of rest and relaxation and pleasure resorts to meet the wishes of the Western bourgeoisie. Such activity is given the name of tourism, and for the occasion will be built […]
Continue ReadingThis blog is a fictional “interview” Machel Montano. I extracted lyrics from some of his most popular soca songs and woven them into a made- up conversation to illustrate the importance of building consent culture in Carnival. Interviewer: Mr. Montano, this carnival, thiefin’ a wine is an offense under the Summary Offenses Act. Public awareness […]
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