tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-259999632024-02-21T10:41:15.759-05:00conscious vibrationwriting resistance and desire, challenging systems of oppression, and carving spaces for we stories.Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-8401070327586274812021-06-06T22:09:00.005-04:002021-06-06T22:09:28.525-04:00“Missing, Deported or Uncounted – Who Matters After Dorian?”<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDedqkUVBgXxPj19Fdy_9fVZlSAksEdvRiYEpV7Et_HZjtH9d4xelBGB53h5L0Gk1uuufgz_FoG8TIMupRFHSV5W3yvIMB4biJ5WlwylNSsq-jLUKvMecI_5TT2LzUkJDgPU_Ayw/s1742/Screenshot+2021-06-06+at+10.05.03+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1318" data-original-width="1742" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDedqkUVBgXxPj19Fdy_9fVZlSAksEdvRiYEpV7Et_HZjtH9d4xelBGB53h5L0Gk1uuufgz_FoG8TIMupRFHSV5W3yvIMB4biJ5WlwylNSsq-jLUKvMecI_5TT2LzUkJDgPU_Ayw/w477-h361/Screenshot+2021-06-06+at+10.05.03+PM.png" width="477" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-4732813e-7fff-0810-f9ed-123de35583ff" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Missing, Deported, or Uncounted – Who Matters After Dorian?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">By Angelique V. Nixon</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Published 6 January 2020, In The Diaspora Column, Stabroek News </span></b></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Will we ever know how many people lost their lives during Hurricane Dorian? Who is counted among the missing? How many Dorian survivors have been deported from The Bahamas to Haiti? What will happen to the survivors who are undocumented (or without documents) and living in shelters? Who gets to rebuild and how? These are the questions that haunt many three months after the storm in The Bahamas. While the official death toll remains at 69, given the reports from survivors of watching loved ones swept away in the storm to the stories of bodies still under rubble and unclaimed bodies, we know there is more here than the official numbers or reports can tell us.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In the past months since the devastating hurricane, the numbers of missing persons and confirmed deaths have remained woefully confusing, with officials reporting the difficulty of being able to give an accurate count. While the numbers went down after the first few weeks with rescue and evacuation efforts, officials suggested that many people were found with varying estimates of numbers still missing from week to week. After the storm, officials reported 2,500 missing persons but this dropped to 1,300 then to 600. On October 1, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA0 reported 424, then 346 two weeks later, even as </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Tribune was reporting that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> the Minister of National Security confirmed 282 persons missing. Through November and December, the numbers remained around 300 with questions lingering still of who is counted among the missing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> President Stephanie St. Fleur of the Human Rights Organisation, Rights Bahamas,has raised this grave concern a number of times. In October, she called out the government and NEMA for not including the reports of missing persons from the Haitian migrant community that Rights Bahamas had collected and submitted. In November, St. Fleur asked where was the accountability on the missing persons list, especially for those families who were evacuated to shelters (from Abaco to Nassau). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Bahamian Prime Minister Minnis said in early November that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“It’s very difficult for us to have an exact count on the numbers of missing individuals, because you would recall that there are a lot of undocumented individuals. If they are undocumented, we won’t have records of them and therefore you may find that that number may fluctuate. But we are doing our best to keep count of and reporting to the nation at large as to the count, number of dead as well as number of missing</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">” (qtd in “Lack of Accountability on Dorian Missing Persons List” Eyewitness News Bahamas, 26 November 2019). But as Rights Bahamas has asked, who is included in the numbers and have survivors of Haitian descent been asked by officials about their missing relatives or loved ones? While the Attorney General issued a statement in early December encouraging undocumented migrants to report missing persons (Jasper Ward, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Nassau Guardian</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">, 3 December 2019), there were no assurances that this reporting would not lead to deportation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The Government of The Bahamas’ moratorium on deportations of those who survived Hurricane Dorian lasted only a few weeks. By early October, just one month after the most devastating hurricane ever to hit The Bahamas, several reports emerged of the government deporting Haitian migrant survivors to Haiti – who were deemed to be undocumented. The news reports of these deportations were seen in local Bahamian news media, regional news media, and international news media such as the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Miami Herald</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> 3 October 2019, NPR 5 October 2019, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">New York Times </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">10 October 2019 and other news sites such as Buzz Feed News (October 3 and November 9). Based on the news coverage and reports from the International Organisation of Migration 15 November 2019, 340 persons were repatriated to Haiti – most of them being survivors of Dorian who had lost everything. Those persons deported have been described by the International Organisation for Migration as “traumatized” and unable to make a living in Haiti.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">This is all happening during a political and economic crisis that’s been going on in Haiti since September. Haiti is no stranger to political upheavals for decades and certainly since the earthquake, there has been an enduring crisis of slow and painful recovery. But the past few months of uprisings against the high cost of living, increased energy costs, corruption, and neoliberal policies have put the country in a near political and economic standstill. People have taken over the streets with daily protests that have shut down businesses and movements in Port Au Prince as well as other cities across Haiti. This is no time to deport people to Haiti. This is no time to send people who have been living in a place for years and decades to somewhere they don’t know, to somewhere they won’t be able to make a living. Where is our sense of solidarity, of empathy, of regional understanding or support? How do we make sense of our regional relationships, migration needs, post-disaster support in the wake of climate and migration crisis? How do we make sense of these deportations?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Some of these people have been sent to a country they don’t know very well or at all. Some were born in The Bahamas and therefore have a right to access or apply for citizenship at 18. Some are children and therefore have a right to an education under Bahamian law. Some had Bahamian documents but lost everything in the storm. Some are likely traumatised after their experiences of horrendous and unspeakable loss. Some spent weeks in shelters. Some are sole survivors and have not been able to grieve for their loved ones. Many of these persons deported lived in Abaco and contributed directly to the Bahamian economy through their labour and skills (working at resorts, wealthy homes, and in agriculture and construction). Some have been separated from families. And those left in the Bahamas (in shelters and elsewhere) continue to be the most vulnerable and subject to deportation and xenophobia.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">In December, a Bahamian nationalist group (Operation Sovereign Bahamas) emerged in the front of one of the main shelters in Nassau at the Kendal Issacs Gym to protest the Haitian migrants still there and to call on the government to deport all of them. The irony that of all the problems going on in the Bahamas post-Dorian - from the slow process of recovery, the severe water problems in Grand Bahama to the land grabs and neoliberal development plans in Abaco that will likely not benefit the majority of Bahamians - this is what they choose to protest - a small group of survivors of the most devastating hurricane ever to hit the Bahamas. The stigma and discrimination against Haitians and persons of Haitian descent in the Bahamas has long been an issue but has been fueled post-Dorian. What is most disturbing here is the lack of empathy in the Bahamas towards Haitians who experienced the same horrendous loss and trauma of Hurricane Dorian and climate crisis, people who have had unspeakable loss and who have lost almost everything. How does this not bring us together but instead create even more divisions and fear?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Local news coverage has dwindled on the issue of deportations and missing persons. And it is even more difficult to find any reports or updates in this first week of the new year. As we usher in a new decade with more and more horrifying news about the climate crisis (from Australia to Indonesia), I ask us all in the Caribbean region to think seriously about our climate action, how we are moving into this new decade, and how we will demand justice for all.</span></p>Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-6430320516828959312021-06-06T22:01:00.005-04:002021-06-06T22:01:28.958-04:00“What Does It Mean to Survive After Dorian? On Caribbean Disasters, Development and Climate Crisis.” <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsC5IHhJAk4uKqfFEtxAUYLbFDQ29n8BeNA9Zk2CTOZQfPjvotB3A3jEdEITn0g00JNHP2lYb_21vQ8pfff4Fo-4vgibJvsH41TQT0gJja3UWxxQlJklbuEjb_W3bqsGv6SgEBg/s1666/Screenshot+2021-06-06+at+9.54.48+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1296" data-original-width="1666" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNsC5IHhJAk4uKqfFEtxAUYLbFDQ29n8BeNA9Zk2CTOZQfPjvotB3A3jEdEITn0g00JNHP2lYb_21vQ8pfff4Fo-4vgibJvsH41TQT0gJja3UWxxQlJklbuEjb_W3bqsGv6SgEBg/w548-h426/Screenshot+2021-06-06+at+9.54.48+PM.png" width="548" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">What Does It Mean To Survive After Dorian? </span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">On Caribbean Disasters, Development and Climate Crisis</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">by</span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Angelique V. Nixon</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>Published 30 September 2019 -- In The Diaspora Column, Stabroek News </b><br /></span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based
writer, artist, and scholar-activist. <br />
She is a Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The
University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. </span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The stories of rescue and relief in The Bahamas
since Hurricane Dorian have left me and so many in heartbreak and reflecting on
what it means to survive – from the man who rode out the entire storm hunkered
in the mangroves of Abaco, to the people who held onto trees during the storm
surge, to the sick baby found in The Mudd with a father who didn’t leave for fear
of being deported. The injured survivors (Bahamians and Haitians) at the
Princess Margaret Hospital in New Providence telling doctors that they don’t
want treatment, they don’t want to live, because they have lost everyone – sole
survivors of families drowned or swept away in the storm. The Haitian migrants
(now twice displaced) calling for the bodies of their loved ones to be found
and buried with respect and dignity. Haitian migrants living in fear of
deportation and hiding even with the promise of the Bahamian government that
deportations are supposedly on pause. Bahamians trying to enter the United
States to visit family and get away in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian and
being denied entry. The explicit xenophobia and framing of our people as ‘very
very bad’, ‘drug dealers’ and ‘gang members’. Haitian children being deported
by the Bahamian government. These stories are hard to hold or imagine, yet we
must.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Entire lives are on hold across The Bahamas –
from those evacuated and displaced at shelters across New Providence to those
in Grand Bahama cleaning up and clearing out what is left of their homes.
Imagine being a poor or working class Bahamian family. Imagine being a family
or sole survivor, having lost everything or almost everything, and trying to
pick up the pieces. Imagine the grief and suffering, the psychological trauma,
of survivors. Imagine being the most scorned in this country, the ones blamed
and scapegoated for almost every social problem. Imagine being a Haitian
migrant right now living in The Bahamas, or living elsewhere across the region.
Some of us don’t have to imagine any of these – either we know people
experiencing this or we are experiencing it – the proximity to disasters, the
trauma, of being treated as other, less than, not equal to, expendable or
deportable.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And so I ask all of us in the Caribbean – where
is our collective outrage, our climate action movement, our migrant rights
movement, where is our action against unsustainable development and neoliberal
agendas, where is our intersectional politics and action? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As the Global Climate Strike erupted around the
world on 20<sup>th</sup> September, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of
hopelessness across our region. To be sure, there were a few important actions,
most notably the successful protest against mining in rural Jamaica to save
Cockpit Country. In Trinidad, young people planned and led a march with 150
people around the Queen’s Park Savannah. Representing the region at the UN
Climate Summit, we had 11 Caribbean youth attending the first ever Youth
Climate Summit; and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley demanding climate
action and justice for all small island nations, warning that there will be mass
migration if climate crisis continues. Compared to thousands who marched in
strike events and actions across the globe, there was mostly silence in our
region, especially from leaders. Where was our regional climate action, our
regional uprising?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps it is being in the midst of relief and
recovery from Hurricane Dorian just a few weeks ago, still in recovery from
Hurricane Maria just two years ago, from Hurricane Matthew three years ago,
from the earthquake in Haiti a decade ago, and on and on. But perhaps the disasters
we don’t talk about enough or even at all are the most dangerous – the disaster
of tourism development, over reliance and dependence on foreign investment,
continued exploitation of migrant labour, and the failures of our
post-neo-colonial states. Maybe we are too afraid to speak or act. Maybe we
haven’t done enough to educate the public about climate change or social and
environmental justice as one connected struggle. Maybe we spend too much time
blaming individual consumers instead of placing more blame and accountability
on private sector, industries, and governments. Maybe the environmental
movement in the Caribbean has failed with its middle and upper class politics.
Maybe other movements have failed to show the connections between social
inequalities and climate change. Maybe it’s easier to blame ‘immigrants’, ‘gays’,
and all those scary ‘others’ for our social problems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Maybe we have no plan B for
economic development, and so we continue to build a tourism industry t</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">hat
does not care about our sustainability or future outside the usual recipe of
sun, sand, sea and festivals. Maybe we fear calling out the ways tourism
dependent small islands rely on the bits of income from cruise ships which
pollute our waters and leave their garbage. Maybe we have not learned lessons
from the disasters of structural adjustment policies that leave our countries
in debt and too many of our people in poverty and despair. Maybe those of us
with oil and other natural resources still believe that will save us. Maybe we
still believe the lies of globalization, development and progress in the
pursuit of a place in the global capitalist market. Maybe we believe that our
(post-neo)colonial masters will save us. Maybe it’s all too overwhelming and
unimaginable as we live in the apocalypse of climate crisis now. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After Tropical Storm Karen, which affected us in
Trinidad and Tobago just a week ago with mass flooding across both islands, I
write this in fear and panic about our future, in deep anxiety about our
silence and complacency, in solidarity across our precarious Caribbean region,
especially with the most vulnerable of our people. We know we are in crisis. We
feel it with each hurricane and rainy season and rising temperatures and seas.
We see it as we drive along our coastlines with erosion and destruction of our
mangroves; we experience it with dry season and forest fires, with clearcutting
for tourism and other development projects. We hear it with each report of
coral reefs bleaching, fish disappearing, record-setting heat waves and storms,
mass extinctions, and rain forests on fire across the Amazon and Sub-Saharan
Africa. We smell it with the pollution and garbage burning in our landfills,
across our small islands – where we produce less than we import, where on the
smallest islands we import way more than we need for tourists and migrants with
status and money, who consume more than we do. We touch it in one way or
another through the reliance on migrant labour needed to fuel our externally
dependent economies, to do work that nationals don’t want to do, and to rebuild
in the aftermath of disasters. We know it when we hear of yet another deal on a
development project, a new cruise ship port, a set of condos, a new hotel, or
more exploration for oil and gas. We understand it in the aftermath of
hurricanes when new development deals are signed before recovery has even
started for locals who have lost their homes. This is happening now in Abaco
and Grand Bahama just four weeks after Hurricane Dorian. Bodies are still buried
under rubble, islands completely devastated and there are already plans to sell
land to the highest bidders. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We are complicit when we don’t call out all the
ways our small islands are made more vulnerable and marginalized in these
unnatural disasters, the ways we are exploited and then exploit others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Our Caribbean region is one of the most tourism
dependent regions in the world. And so when I read the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Forbes</i> article by Daphne Ewing-Chow on 20<sup>th</sup> September
2019, titled “Caribbean Islands Are The Biggest Plastic Polluters Per Capita In
The World,” with no mention of the almost 40 million tourists per year who
visit (mostly on cruise ships), I was furious. It’s not that the article is
completely wrong – indeed we do have a serious problem with plastic consumption
and waste per capita that is outrageous – but rather it’s that the author fails
to include a huge part of the problem, which is tourism and neo-liberal
development. It’s no coincidence that most of the top ten Caribbean polluters
are also the most dependent on tourism --Antigua & Barbuda, St. Kitts &
Nevis, Barbados, St. Lucia, The Bahamas, Grenada, Anguilla and Aruba. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This article was circulated on Global Climate
Strike day. Perhaps the goal of the author was to name our small island nations
as also being major contributors to marine waste. While the author does
identify “inadequate waste management” as a root cause of the problem, the
landscape is complex and wrapped up in quite literally not having enough space
or resources to manage the waste of our own residents, much less millions of
tourists. Recent climate change research has identified serious concerns about
the “carbon footprint of global tourism,” especially for the Caribbean. The
true cost of tourism is one not usually included in popular media conversations
about climate change and pollution – with few exceptions such as the 2018
article in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Grist</i> by Justine Calma,
“The Caribbean on your vacation but suffers from its carbon footprint”. These
are the global relations of power, pollution and unsustainable development not
many are willing to face – because we are overly reliant and dependent with no
plan B. Meanwhile, visitors from the Global North flock to our shores, consume
and exploit because that is the promise of paradise. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But no one in paradise is supposed to talk about
the ugly truths of exploitation, environmental destruction for development,
competition over scarce resources, the limited supply of fresh water, or the diversion
of resources (water and electricity) to hotels and foreign-owned wealthy homes.
Nor are we supposed to talk about the ways limited jobs in “development
projects” turn us against each other, or the horrifying untold stories of
migrants fleeing one set of unlivable conditions only to find themselves abused
and exploited. We see this with many Haitian migrants living in The Bahamas and
Dominican Republic, as many Venezuelan migrants seeking asylum right now in
Trinidad and Tobago, as many Guyanese migrants experience hardships in
Barbados, as too many. We can keep this going all the way back to all the ways
our Caribbean people have had to move and relocate in search of something
better. Isn’t that what we all want? Something better? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We need these harsh truths and untold stories to
be spoken, analysed, and understood, in the face of the many unnatural
disasters we are living. We are in this together, our survival depends on it –
our region, our people, our vulnerable islands of complex, unique and shared
histories. We need honest reflections, sustainable solutions, tangible empathy
and reasonings, regional actions and uprisings and revolutionary decolonial
justice-visioning in our Caribbean to survive.</span></p>
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9 September 2019 </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It has been just one unbearably long week since Hurricane Dorian, and the reports from the Northern Bahamas islands of Grand Bahama and Abaco are more horrific and catastrophic with each passing day. Both islands are being described as apocalyptic with near or total devastation and a rising death toll that is hard to fathom for such a small country. Many of the dead have not been counted yet because of limited storage and capacity. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The place smells like death</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> – recent reports from Abaco and Grand Bahama keep saying. Bahamians living abroad like myself have spent these past days in fear and panic waiting to hear from loved ones and families, mourning with our national siblings, watching in horror the rescue and recovery efforts, sharing information and correcting misinformation about our beloved archipelago.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Northern Bahamas has just experienced one of the most catastrophic hurricanes on record. The devastation is unimaginable, with thousands of homes destroyed and thousands of people displaced on both islands. The population of Abaco and Grand Bahama – nearly 70,000 people or more – have been directly impacted. Too many people have lost almost everything, homes entirely or mostly destroyed, loved ones taken by the storm surge, survivors traumatised and waiting for relief. Communication is severely limited. Electricity is out and will be for a long time. Drinking water is running out. Running water is reported to be contaminated. The longer people wait to get relief, the greater chance the death toll will rise even more, the greater toll on people’s physical, emotional and mental health. This is the reality. This is what I’m hearing from friends, family and community organisers on the ground. This is what local and international journalists are reporting.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the aftermath of the hurricane, both islands face a humanitarian crisis as people wait for rescue and relief efforts. Too many people have no drinking water, food, clothing, or shelter – basic needs. Too many people are traumatised, re-counting the stories of watching loved ones being pulled away by the tidal surge or drowning in attempts to get out of flooding homes and shelters. The stories are beyond heart-breaking and filled with apocalyptic horror – as people await rescue and relief, they share how they survived and how they watched others perish. It is almost too much, but we must bear witness and share in this grief and sorrow so that healing and recovery are possible. This is a small island disaster, but there is nothing small about it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We must understand that the most vulnerable or marginalised communities before the disaster (poor and working class folks, persons living with disabilities and severe health conditions, elderly, migrants, and those caring for others) will be the most in need in the aftermath. This is how disasters work. They are not the great equalizer as some say. All they do is unearth and exacerbate existing inequalities and vulnerabilities. We have seen this again and again – from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to Superstorm Sandy in the Northeast US, and the continued failed response and relief for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. The most vulnerable are made more vulnerable.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While relief efforts are being mobilised, donations and funds are being collected from across the region and world, and disaster agencies are operating, there remain disparities in access to relief and rescue. Across Grand Bahama - with the second largest population in the country, over 50,000 people, from the city of Freeport to settlements like High Rock – there is widespread devastation. People of Grand Bahama have been saying they feel ignored and forgotten in relief efforts, days after the storm, as survivors searched for loved ones, led their own rescue operations, as people who lost less help those who have lost everything.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My elder aunt and uncle, and a family friend who is disabled, survived the hurricane and flooding in a one-story concrete house, far from the coast, inland in Freeport, Grand Bahama. They watched in fear as the flood waters rose into the yard, then up into their home, and sat waist deep in those waters for many terrifying hours. Many areas of Freeport flooded with the storm surge and hours of hurricane rain. While their house is still standing, most of their belongings are damaged or destroyed. They say they are just happy and blessed to be alive. My cousin says they are both traumatised as so many people in Grand Bahama. They are just one story of hundreds of families struggling in the aftermath. Another family member in Freeport says many people who have means (a passport, US visa, and/or family/connections in Florida) are leaving – two cruise ships from Freeport to West Palm Beach have already left.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entire settlements in Abaco – from the largest town of Marsh Harbour to the almost forgotten shanty town of Haitian migrants and Haitian Bahamians called The Mudd and Pigeon Peas (with an estimated population of 2,600) – have been destroyed. Haitian migrants and Haitian Bahamians are one of the most vulnerable and marginalised communities in The Bahamas, too often ignored and treated inhumanely by the state and Bahamians generally. It is likely that many undocumented Haitian migrants in this community in Abaco might have been fearful to seek shelter in the storm even with the mandatory evacuation. It is likely that we may never know for sure how many in this community lost their lives. Few journalists and news stories have discussed this issue as it is a sensitive one and political issue. Haitian migrants have escaped one set of unliveable conditions, only to find themselves facing another. According to news reports, Haitian activists in Miami have called upon the Prime Minister of The Bahamas to stop deportations so that Haitian migrants can access relief and help without fear. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hurricane Dorian is the most powerful storm to hit the Northern Bahamas ever – with 185 mph winds, 220 mph gusts and 20 feet tidal surges. It was/is unimaginable. The slow moving and massive storm ripped through the Abaco islands and then sat stationary over Grand Bahama for more the 40 hours. There is no way to prepare fully for this. Even for a country that is accustomed to hurricanes, a country that has strict building codes, for people who know storms and plan for hurricanes every season (for generations and increasingly in the past decade of more frequent and intense storms), nothing could prepare us for this and its aftermath. The Bahamas is not prepared. Neither are any of our island-nations and countries in this vulnerable region. And neither are most countries really prepared for this kind of disaster – a disaster fueled by climate change, injustice and inequality. This is the apocalypse now of climate crisis. In the past decade, we have witnessed and experienced the strength, intensity and frequency of hurricanes – fueled by climate change, season after season – not only in The Bahamas but across the Caribbean region. We have been on the front lines of climate change for decades. This is climate crisis – as Erica Moiah James so beautifully argues in her September 4 New York Times Op-Ed “Hurricane Dorian Makes Bahamians the Latest Climate-Crisis Victims”.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is our worst fear, what we’ve already experienced and imagined as bearing the brunt of climate change. In my lifetime, I have seen the impact of rising sea levels, erosion of coastlines, destruction of mangroves and unsustainable, destructive tourism development in The Bahamas. Across the region, we see this again and again, alongside stronger hurricanes, severe weather, higher temperatures, coral reefs and mangroves dying - mangroves that ought to protect the coast during storms. This has been the reality of climate change for decades. And now we have reached another extreme – with fires raging in the Amazon and across Sub-Saharan Africa, carbon levels higher than predicted, melting of polar ice caps, hotter summers, colder winters, mass extinctions in the animal kingdom, bleaching of coral reefs, and on and on. This is climate crisis. And the Caribbean is one of the most vulnerable regions with small island countries and low-lying coasts, much like the Pacific Islands.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But for now in this aftermath, I am thinking most of those suffering now, those most vulnerable, and helping my family as much as I can. I am doing what I can here in Trinidad through a “Relief Drive for The Bahamas” supporting three grassroots women-led organisations on the ground that are getting help to those most in need and those most vulnerable in this disaster – Lend A Hand Bahamas (</span><a href="https://www.lendahandbahamas.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.lendahandbahamas.org/</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), Equality Bahamas (Facebook @equality242), and Human Rights Bahamas (Facebook @gbhra242). The core organisers here in Trinidad are UWI Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), Coalition-Against Domestic Violence, Network of NGOs of T&T for the Advancement of Women, and the Emancipation Support Committee TT (ESCTT). We have come together to collect relief items – calling for basic necessities – adult and baby hygiene products, including soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, female sanitary items, adult and baby diapers, baby formula and food, cleansing wipes, and non-perishable foods can be dropped off at any of those organisations’ headquarters. (For those in Trinidad who want to support, contact me via what’s app 868-732-3543 for more information.) We are supporting grassroots organisations on the ground because we trust they will get relief to those most in need as quickly as possible. </span></span></span></div>
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-6650192306187369942016-12-31T21:05:00.001-05:002017-01-05T12:00:15.728-05:00Cosmic Evolution - What is your Earthseed Vision of the Future?<style>
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frustrating... but I've managed to do some things -- channeling my rage into
creation. I've pushed myself as a writer, poet, and artist -- and this project
was visioned, created, and produced all in this year since the summer. In July,
I had an amazing week at the V<a href="http://vonacommunity.org/community/" target="_blank">ONA/VOICES Writers of Color Workshop</a> - Residency
with David Mura. This was life changing for me a writer and it gave me the
tools I need to push myself, my craft, my artistic writing self. I am
grateful. Out of that powerful experience, I went into another writing retreat with my
SPACE crew in Tobago - and Cosmic Evolution was born. I wrote a short story
that I then began to vision as a mixed media installation -- and I submitted a
proposal to the <a href="http://nagb.org.bs/events-and-exhibitions/2016/10/13/national-exhibition-8" target="_blank">National Art Gallery of the Bahamas call for their 8th NationalExhibition</a>. I was accepted :) and the piece grew and transformed into what you
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"Cosmic Evolution" is a speculative fiction experience and multimedia
installation about how we vision futures for Caribbean and African Diaspora
peoples. Inspired by Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Caribbean
mangroves and sea, I ask what is our Earthseed vision of the future? This
artwork is my response and provocation for us to create wildly and boldly. To
seriously think about our survival and possible futures given the continued
assault on on Black, Brown, Migrant, Same-Sex loving, Queer, and Women's Lives
and the earth. The sculpture is a small-scale model of the evolution of our
beings and escape to the stars. (I must give a shout out and sincere gratitude
to my dearest friend Shalini Seereeram for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BMuCJJSATtJ/?taken-by=sistellablack" target="_blank">her help with design and materials for the sculpture</a>. She is boss artist and has design magic!) The rest of
installation includes 18 photographs, 11min 11sec video with mangroves and
storytelling. My work is inspired by the Mangrove forests of Trinidad and Tobago and created
through deep reflection of how we vision our Caribbean futures. I am thrilled
to be featured in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NationalAGB?fref=ts" target="_blank">National Art Gallery of the Bahamas</a> 8th National
Exhibition - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HillsideHouse/" target="_blank">OFFSITE at Hillside House</a>. I went home on 16th December to Install
the piece and also had the fabulous opportunity to share the work at the
opening reception on the 17th and offer a reading/performance. Here are photos and some reflections of th<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">e opening and <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">this experience of creating Cosmic Evolution</span></span>.</span></span><br />
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about how we vision our futures for Caribbean and African diaspora people –
Black, Brown, Migrant, Same-Sex Loving, Queer, and Women especially. This vision
began with a journey through the Mangrove forests in Tobago and deep reflection
on Octavia Butler’s dystopia novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Parable
of the Sower</i> (imagining her creation of community survival through Earthseed).
It also emerges through the painful social and racial climate we are surviving
in the past few years of a so-called post-racial world (and the rise of Black
Lives Matter and Migrant Rights movements globally in response to overwhelming
violence, fear, and hate). And it comes to life thinking through the backlash
against Caribbean feminist and women’s movements for gender and sexual justice
and the continued struggles for gender and sexual rights and freedom for
Caribbean sexual minorities (LGBTQI) and gender non-conforming people. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cosmic Evolution</i> is about survival and
possible futures given the continued assault on Black, Brown, Migrant, Queer,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">This mixed
media installation shares a future vision of marginalised people evolving and
relocating to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Space</i> after spending
nine years under the mangrove forests of the Caribbean Sea. The future
storyteller (griot) explains the process of this cosmic evolution and how
people transformed and took flight to the stars, which is made possible through
the magical infusion of cultural artifacts, ancestral spirits, earth and sea vibrations,
and mangrove swamps. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cosmic Evolution</i>
visions a future decolonised, where our minds, bodies, and spirits feel whole;
a future unbounded to capitalism, where communities thrive in harmony and
healing rooted in love and acceptance; a future where we co-exist with the
earth and all living creatures; a future where we are sexually, spiritually,
and socially free – with consent at the root and restorative justice the path.
To create our own possible Earthseed Future, we must do the work of pulling
from the past and present to evolve. This project seeks to ground us back into
the earth, sea, and ancestral memory, to reimagine the tools we need in order
to create better, possible, and livable futures. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cosmic Evolution - Mixed Media Installation at Hillside House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close Up of the Sculpture </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Video surrounded by Photographs of the Mangroves which inspired my story</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I took these photographs of the Mangrove Forests in Trinidad and Tobago.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I worked with NAGB Chief Curator Holly Bynoe to place the photographs and create this collage style effect.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Description of the work to accompany the installation</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Promo for the Opening Reception and Reading at Hillside House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reading at Hillside House for the Opening Reception -- NE8 Offsite. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I offered a Ritual after the reading/performance of my story Cosmic Evolution -- I opened the space with ancestor blessings and acknowledgement of land and people here before us. After storytelling, I shared my manifesto and Earthseed visioning of this new Earth/space and the kind of community I would want to create. I asked participants to join me in visioning of our Caribbean futures. I invited them to write down on pieces of fabric what magical artifacts or objects they would take with them AND/OR what kind of community or new world they would create. Each person left their message near the sculpture. And I gave each person who contributed a seed to keep with them for future visioning. It was a powerful ritual of exchange and visioning for me as an artist.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> This was my first solo <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">performance art piece <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and I am forever grate<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ful to the staff and curatorial team at NAG<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">B fo<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">r this amazing opportunity<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">. I want to especially<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> give thanks <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to Holly Bynoe for <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">creating<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> spaces and expansive visioning for what art is an<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">d how we can engage community. Thank you Holly! <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">💜</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sculpture with offerings from participants after the ritual</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Close up of some of the offerings</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another Promo for the Opening featuring one of my photographs of the Tobago Mangrove Forest</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Description of NE8</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NE8 OFFSite Artists</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grateful for this experience and being able to share my art at home :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another view of the photographs and video.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am also very grateful to be in the region these past few years -- teaching, working, living, and in the struggle for Caribbean freedom. Trinidad and Tobago is an ancestral home for me and is also now feeling completely homespace. I am happy to share my Cosmic Evolution first in my birthplace/home Nassau, Bahamas, but as it was created in and inspired by sweet T&T I will also be sharing it in Trinidad - soon soon!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">happy new year blessings & conscious vibes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">may this new year bring renewal & fortitude for continuing struggles & resistance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">choose our weapons wisely. vision boldly & stay rooted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">conjure freedom tools. be defiant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">peace love blessings in abundance! and more from me in 2017!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Angelique (sistella black)</span><br />
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for Healing and Self Care<br />
A Caribbean Feminist Brew<br />
Conjured by Angelique V. Nixon</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for
those of us on the frontline, <br />
waging battles, survivors of violence,<br />
for Caribbean women and girls, <br />
for Caribbean people who live and love<br />
outside gender and sexual norms,<br />
(especially lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, <br />
queer, and gender non-conforming folks)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
past weeks of sharing painful stories, we have broken depths of silence,<br />
Broken, we are not, broke open, we are, not damaged beyond repair,<br />
We are breaking silences with fyah raised fists and voices beaming, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">we listen, we hold, we rage, we bawl, we scream, we remember. <br /> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We share our own stories. Sometimes we don’t share. Sometimes we can’t.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> This
is time to bear witness. We share in this unearthing of our stories of sexual
abuse, harassment, assault, and violence. We wonder how to move forward. How to
escape. How to process. How to cope. How to stop this violence. How to hold
each other accountable. How to live and love. How to be whole again. How to
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://notesonfwords.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">K</span></a><a href="https://notesonfwords.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">rystal Nandi</span></a><a href="https://notesonfwords.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">ni G</span></a><a href="https://notesonfwords.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">h</span></a><a href="https://notesonfwords.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">isyawan</span></a> and I have been asking these questions
over the past few years through our co-created art and reflection projects on
gender-based violence (GBV) in the Caribbean. This year, we decided to focus on
breaking silence and healing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
survivors of violence especially women and people who defy sexual and gender
norms, I hosted a healing workshop at Wholeness and Justice Counselling Centre
in Trinidad on 9 December. I created this workshop to facilitate healing space
for those of us most affected by gender based violence. This session focused on
women, LGBTQI folks, and gender non-conforming people because we experience the
brunt of hetero-patriarchal violence. These forms of violence affect us all but
women and sexual minorities experience gender based violence
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
the <a href="https://redforgender.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/lifeinleggings-call-for-feminist-solidarity/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">#LifeinLeggings movement grows across
the Caribbean</span></a>, we must create more spaces for us to find healing. We
have opened up wounds, we have shared painful memories, and we are bearing
witness to each other’s pain. How do we process these feelings and memories?
How do we support and protect each other? How do we channel our anger, pain,
rage, and sorrow into creativity, language, and action? How do we manage loved
ones reactions, feelings, and pain upon reading our stories? Can we create
change and transform our societies, communities, and families? What is
possible? Inspired by Audre Lorde's poetry and essays, my workshop seeks to
open space and use creativity for healing and transformation. </span></div>
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share here on <i>consciousvibration</i> the goals, rituals, and creative
exercises I developed to create space for healing and sharing. We had a
powerful and hard session on Friday – with nine of us – sharing, writing,
creating, and thinking through these questions of how we transform silence into
language and action. I will be hosting more of these workshops soon – and some
folks in the group want to meet up regularly. </span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
Goals of the Workshop: For survivors of gender based violence, to release and
find healing through creativity and to transform silence into language and
action.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Defining
Self Care:</span></b></div>
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maintain physical, mental and emotional health.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cleansing Healing Breathing Practice</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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the body and regenerate; To clear the mind - ground and center self. </span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remember that Healing is a process (day to day practice)</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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exercise, meditation, yoga, grounding, nature connection, checking in with
loved ones.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Writing
and Art – Creativity as a Path for Healing </span></b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(channel rage into
creation)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anger expressed and translated into action in the service of
our vision and our future is a liberating and strengthening act of
clarification.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anger
is loaded with information and energy.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–Audre
Lorde “Uses of Anger”</span></i></div>
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opened up wounds, we have shared painful memories, and we are bearing witness
to each others' pain. How do we process these feelings and memories? How do we
support and protect each other? How do we channel our anger, pain, rage, and
sorrow into creativity, language, and action? How do we manage loved ones
reactions, feelings, and pain upon reading our stories? Can we create change
and transform our societies, communities, and families? What is possible?</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not
protect you.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br />
</span><i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">–Audre
Lorde “Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
survivors of gender based violence – we often push down the painful memories and this can create
a separation of selves – especially if it happened to us as children or teens.
We may have split and silenced parts of our selves to survive and cope.
Sometimes these are necessary strategies but long term can be damaging. Here
are some creative exercises to communicate with your other self or selves built
for survival and coping – for healing and transformation.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Creative
Exercises as pathways to healing: </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1)
Stone Reflection (<u>Earth</u> – grounding self) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pick
two stones – one as a reflection of your inner self or child self and the other
as the self you project to the world or your adult self. Write about each stone
and how they reflect these parts of you. Describe the surface, the edges, the
feelings that each stone evokes in you. Let the power of the earth come through
the stones. Feel how they ground you. Share your reflection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2)
Love letter or drawing to child-teen-younger self (<u>Air and Water</u> – for healing) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Use
the elements of Air and Water – as a metaphor for channeling messages to your
younger self: write a love letter or create a drawing for your younger
self. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
Inspiration -- read my love letter: </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://redforgender.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/states-of-healing-anger-love-letter-to-my-girlchildself-blackfeminisms/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">“States of Healing Anger – Love Letter
to my GirlChildSelf.”</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3)
"Transforming Silence into Language and Action" (<u>Fire</u> – for regeneration)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
of course I am afraid, because the transformation of silence into language and
action is an act of self-revelation, and that always seems fraught with danger.
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> We
can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned
to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect
fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in
silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of the silence will
choke us.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break the
silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not
difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to
be broken.</span></i></div>
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Audre Lorde, “Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
Inspiration, watch and listen to my collaborative art project: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV0BQHVKteE&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sixteen Days: Art and Reflection
Project</span></a>” and<i> </i>see my art and poetry collection: <a href="http://www.poincianapaperpress.com/?post_type=portfolio&p=5624" target="_blank"><i><span style="color: blue;">Saltwater Healing: A Myth Memoir
and Poems.</span></i></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vision
your own transformation piece with FYAH – create, draw, paint, colour, write
poetry, or anything you want to make with your hands -- transform feelings,
anger, sadness, grief, pain, silence into something new that will incite, will
speak, will draw upon your energy and live beyond you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Three Part Series -- Sixteen Days<br />Art & Reflection on Ending Gender Based Violence</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>Three-part collaborative project of reflections and original artwork
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i> </i></span> <br />#16Days #Beyond16Days #endviolence</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Building upon t<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">his work each year<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">, </span></span></span>and <br />using it for my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1165658550184512/" target="_blank">gender based violence healing workshop <br />in Trinidad, 9 December 2016</a></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After a year hiatus... <br />more updates on <i>consciousvibration</i>, <br />soon come...</span></h3>
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-36392284853680431412015-11-18T16:57:00.002-05:002019-10-10T09:54:50.840-04:00Resisting Paradise -- New Book!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Months have flown by since my last update on the blogsphere... :( and now finally making some time to share updates! In the midst of too many projects, deadlines, teaching, writing, creating, and everything else I'm up to these days... I'm loving it all and immensely invested in all the work. And I'm overjoyed with being in the region (homespace) and working at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. There is much to report on and reflect... but for now -- wanting to share on <i>conscious vibration</i> that my book is out!!! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My first scholarly book <i>Resisting Paradise</i>
is ready for launches, readings, and parties! After many years of
labour<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and </span>love, researc<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">h, </span>writing, revising<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">, and</span>
writing some more, I'm thrilled to finally hold my book. Thanks so much to <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://repeatingislands.com/2015/10/01/new-book-resisting-paradise-tourism-diaspora-and-sexuality-in-caribbean-culture/" target="_blank">Repeating Islands</a>, <a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2015/11/a-study-of-tourism-in-the-caribbean-and-how-artists-and-activists-resist-its-great-allure/" target="_blank">ARC Mag</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2015/11/a-study-of-tourism-in-the-caribbean-and-how-artists-and-activists-resist-its-great-allure/" target="_blank">azine</a>,<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nd <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://madmimi.com/s/18d5e6" target="_blank">Bahamian A</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://madmimi.com/s/18d5e6" target="_blank">rt and Cul</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://madmimi.com/s/18d5e6" target="_blank">ture eMagazi</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://madmimi.com/s/18d5e6" target="_blank">ne</a> for book launch annou<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ncements!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It feels good<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> :) a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nd I'm feeling good<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">... Grateful<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> for the <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">opportunity<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> to share and create<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">... So grateful for the support of friends and family... and even more grateful to all t<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he spirits and ancestor<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">s who create through me.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
IGDS hosted a book launch for me on 28th October -- and it was a
beautiful event and opportunity to share and discuss my work. Here are
some highlights from the launch and promotions for the book.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Featured in the Trinidad & Tobago's Sunday Guardian, WOW Magazine | 25 October 2015 <br />Thanks to Paula Lindo for the interview and promotion!</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Giving thanks</span> to all my <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">T&T</span></span> friends/fam who came out <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the IGDS</span> book launch on<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> 28th October</span></span>! I am so grateful! Special thanks to the entire staff at the <a href="http://sta.uwi.edu/igds/index.asp" target="_blank">Institute for Gender and Development Studies, St. Augustine Unit</a> - especially Sue Ann Barratt for being a fabulous host, Deborah McFee for organizing the event, Kathryn L Chan for all of her hard work in marketing, creating, branding the launch and promo materials for the book (postcards, bookmarks, stickers are all Kathryn's design brilliance!), Gabrielle Hosein for a beautiful vote of thanks, and to all the IGDS graduate students who push<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and </span>inspire me. Finally -- give thanks to my fierce warrior-kin Lyndon Gill who offered an incredible reflection/review of my book. I am still beaming and feeling so blessed and humble to be in this community and doing this work. Looking forward to years of building<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and</span> forging resistance.<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Here are some photos of t<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he evening<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>IGDS Book Launch | Photo Credit: Kathryn Chan</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>For more about the book and my process -- here is a published interview with Trinidad and Tobago's <i>Newsday</i>: </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>In Her Words: </b><b>Angelique V Nixon | James Dupraj, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>WMN magazine, Newsday, 15 November 2015, pp. 6-7</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Angelique V Nixon is a Bahamian-born, Trinbago-based writer, artist,
teacher, scholar, activist, and poet. Her newest published title,
<i>Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean
Culture</i> was released in October. In the work, Angelique explores notions
of Caribbean paradise an<span class="text_exposed_show">d how the tourism industry we are all too familiar with can be both exploitative and counter-intuitive to regional mobility. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">
“The process was long and hard – lots of reading, writing, revising,
and more writing,” she says of Resisting Paradise. The author reveals
that the book took many years to complete and there were even times she
believed it wouldn’t be finished. “But I pushed through and believed in
the importance of Caribbean people being at the centre of our knowledge
production and research.” Angelique is also a lecturer and researcher at
the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), UWI St
Augustine. Her research, cultural criticism, and poetry have been
published widely. She is co-editor of the online multi-media collection
<i>Theorising Homophobias in the Caribbean – Complexities of Place, Desire,
and Belonging</i>. And she is author of <i>Saltwater Healing: A Myth Memoir
& Poems</i>, which is a limited-edition<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>letterpress handbound chapbook
of original art and poetry (sold out). This book and selections from it are
currently on display at the Alma Jordan Library, UWI St. Augustine
campus, as well a display from her newest book. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <i>Today, she
shares with WMN some of the driving themes behind Resisting Paradise,
her personal relationship to the tourism industry, and divulges some of
the issues she tackles in her new book. </i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show"> <i><b>Can you tell us a bit
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">The first part of the title – <i>Resisting
Paradise</i> came to me as I was reading poetry by two writers – Bahamian
poet Marion Bethel and Trinidadian-Bahamian poet Christian Campbell.
They are both very critical of tourism and how it affects Caribbean
culture and identity. Their poetry offered much needed
counter-narratives to stereotypical ideas of paradise. For me, being
born and raised in a tourist economy in the Bahamas, I completely
understood why they were so critical of these images of paradise. Also
in my studies and research, I found that tourism has serious effects on
cultural, racial, sexual, and class identity inside the region and in
the Caribbean diaspora. And so I write about these connections between
tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in Caribbean culture. And the book
focuses on Caribbean cultural producers who resist the powerful
production of paradise. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="text_exposed_show">As Caribbean folk, we are often taught to look
at tourism as a saviour or to look upon tourism markets as viable and
illustrious options as career paths and corporate/economic investment.
Do you comment on this in the book, and what are your personal thoughts?
</span></b></i><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> This issue is at the centre of the book! It is exactly why I
wrote it. Growing up in a tourist economy forged my consciousness around
this issue – the double bind of tourism and the extreme dependency much
of the region has on tourism. Further, as I share in the book, I worked
in the tourism and banking industry for years in the Bahamas before my
career in academia. I discuss how my own social and economic mobility is
deeply tied to the tourism industry. One of my goals was to think
through and offer alternatives to this double bind and expose the ways
that tourism can be incredibly unsustainable and exploitative. I also
wanted to show how Caribbean writers, artists, and cultural workers
offer alternative models to mass tourism in order to propose more
ethical and locally-led models. And I share ideas about investing in
ourselves – education, knowing our histories/herstories, and cultural
productions that are Caribbean focused – as a way to counter the
negative impacts of tourism. I also discuss ways we can be more
responsible and ethical Caribbean travelers and forge different
relationships to space and the region in particular. We are not immune
to the powerful and seductive images of paradise. And so when we as
Caribbean people travel, I ask us to think about how we relate to each
other and places we visit. For example, when we in Trinidad travel to
Tobago – what is that relationship? How do we show up as
visitors/tourists or local-foreign? What are our expectations of the
space? Do we see Tobago as Trinidad’s paradise? What are the tensions
that exist and why? These are the kinds of questions I discuss and
explore in the book. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <i><b>How do you link tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in the work? Why do you feel they need to be examined under the same lens? </b></i></span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">
I argue that tourism has deeply affected Caribbean cultural and sexual
identity. And I also explore how this affects Caribbean people inside
and outside the region. I discuss African Diaspora tourism and different
kinds of travel and relationship to space. I think deeply about how
Caribbean people living abroad and their children return home for
visits, for Carnival, for pleasure and to spend time with family and how
they participate in the business of tourism. This is why I bring these
three together to discuss the complicated relationships among them. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">
<i><b>How did growing up in a country heavily reliant on tourism affect the
way you view and interact with such? Did your relationship to it change
over the years?</b></i></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">When I was growing up in the Bahamas, it was either
banking or tourism service industry for job opportunities. I started
work in downtown Nassau at 14 with different summer and afterschool
jobs; then bartending at night and bank job in the day after high
school. My relationship changed over the years as I learned more in
college and graduate school about economics, history, and culture across
the Caribbean. I became more critical of tourism and wanted to search
for better ways for us to survive as a region. But I also experienced
and therefore respect the hustle of working in the tourist industry –
and so I don’t want to be overtly critical of people who have limited
choices either. I started to think about larger structural changes that
we needed as a region – and how we could forge resistance together. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">
<i><b>When examining Caribbean tourism, as with everything, there are pros
and cons - do you agree? Can you elaborate?</b></i></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Yes, of course – pros and
cons. For me working directly in the tourism industry through service
jobs (bartending, waiting tables, retail, etc.) as a teenager, I met
people from all over the world – and I would say that opened up my mind
and perspectives to many things. I grew up really poor in a small place
and so getting to meet all different kinds of people was inspiring.
During my interviews with people working in the tourism and culture
industry, I also found this to be a positive aspect of tourism that
people spoke about again and again. As for cons, there are so many --
from being unsustainable and over-reliance on foreign investments to the
damaging environmental, social, and cultural effects of tourism. I
discuss these in my book throughout but I also share ways that Caribbean
cultural producers negotiate tourism. And so I offer ways for us to
vision and push against the production of paradise and create new
models. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <i><b>Some may argue that the façade of “paradise”,
especially as it relates to the Caribbean, continues to be entrenched in
our colonial histories. Please offer your thoughts on this idea of
“paradise”, and why do you believe there should be resistance?</b></i></span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">Dominant
ideas about paradise are absolutely connected deeply to our colonial
histories that remain embedded in our education, political, economic,
and social fabrics across the region. As other Caribbean scholars have
argued, ideas of Caribbean paradise were built and sustained through
histories of slavery, colonialism, and indentureship that cultivated
structures of racism, class exploitation, sexism, and other oppressive
systems. There must be resistance to paradise because those dominant
images (myths and metaphors) of paradise continue to define the region
globally. There must be resistance to “paradise” because it is part of
the region’s legacy of resistance. We must resist, contest, and create
new images of ourselves that complicate and explode “paradise” because
we exist, we are not metaphors, as Caribbean writer Michelle Cliff so
beautiful puts it. My book seeks to answer this question that other
Caribbean scholars, writers, and artists have asked and grappled with:
what is the cost of producing “paradise” for everyone but ourselves? And
I seek answers through various forms of resistance.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b><span class="text_exposed_show">Sexuality is a
topic that some may not link to tourism overtly, yet recently in
Trinidad and Tobago there have been arrests and investigations into
allegations of human trafficking. Do you believe tourism and the sex
trade are two sides of the same coin? </span></b></i><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> Tourism and the sex
trade are certainly related and connected, but I don’t see them as two
sides of the same coin. It’s important to remember that much of human
trafficking involves domestic work/trade, which is just as exploitative
as sex trafficking. Also the sex trade operates inside and outside of
tourism industry. The way I discuss sexuality in relationship to tourism
is more about sexual labour and transactional sexual relationships that
exist in many ways because of the over-dependence on the tourism
economy. And finally, I examine the ways sexuality can be affected by
tourism – that is, sexual identity, practices, desires, and behaviors.
The book interrogates the sexual-cultural politics of tourism – even
when sex or sexuality is not explicit in tourism advertisements or
packages, it is always there under the surface. In other words, the
Caribbean tourism industry in its selling of Caribbean paradise is
always selling sex and culture. What do you hope both every day and
academic readers can gain from Resisting Paradise? I hope all readers
gain new insights into the ways that Caribbean cultural producers are
writing, creating, and asserting Caribbean subjectivity and sense of
self. And I hope readers learn more about the brilliant Caribbean
writers and artists who push us all to think and expand our
consciousness. I would like readers to think about resistance and how we
can build community together and fight in the struggle for social
justice and equality. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <i><b>What has the work taught you? </b></i>The work
has taught me patience and perseverance as a writer and scholar. It has
also taught me to stand up for my beliefs (being an anti-racist, class
conscious, postcolonial feminist, womanist, same-sex loving,
revolutionary intellectual). It taught me that I do have a right to
theorise/create and be at the center of knowledge production, especially
as a black mixedrace Caribbean woman doing Caribbean studies. And the
work has reminded me that we must look harder for solutions and do
research differently – in open and expansive ways to be more inclusive
and fearless in our approaches. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <i><b>Please tell us some more about
your work with IGDS. What is on the horizon?</b></i></span></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show">I am teaching
undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Gender and Development
Studies. And I am working on a number of research and outreach projects
for the institute, as well as my own writing and research. </span><span class="text_exposed_show"></span><span class="text_exposed_show">My
current research areas include feminist praxis and discourse, Caribbean
sexualities, sexual labour, and social justice movements. I will be
working on my next scholarly book soon, and I’m in the process of
revising poems and writing new pieces for my second book of poetry. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> <i><b>Where is Resisting Paradise available?</b></i> It’s available on <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FAmazon.com%2F&h=YAQHtDW0K&enc=AZOHbWdfQsiC6ND2m5QFL8cVfanFrnY6Z9l9UkhE7-VPcE3Zdo98Zq-VaTfwBznwHCmEGDhXvY1j25LzmVTotTdAtL4lRzydqONGNrtzDVimnzYI8HrX6w9V-5Rvw0maFeOpu4QYDqGhlyPydGCQheyy&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a>
and through the University Press of Mississippi website. It’s in
hardcover right now and so it’s really expensive. But I have copies that
I’m selling -- extending my author discount so it’s a bit cheaper. Feel
free to get in touch with me via email: angeliquevnixon@gmail.com.<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span> The paperback will be out next year or so, and then it will be much cheaper. The e-book is out as well on Kindle. </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">
<i><b>Any additional information, links, or thoughts you would like to share
with our readership?</b></i> I dedicated my book to “all the cosmic warriors and
moon-loving-conjure beings, who create boldly, cause trouble, and fight
for justice;” and to “the struggle to be black, woman, human, and
free.” This is the center of all my work as a writer, artist, teacher,
scholar, activist, and poet. Stay in touch with me Instagram<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">/</span>Twitter @sistellablack, Follow me on Facebook (</span><span class="text_exposed_show"><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span class="fbPhotoTagListTag withTagItem tagItem"><a class="taggee" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/hovercard.php?id=2035340&type=withtag&media_info=6.10153906170299050" href="https://www.facebook.com/angelique.v.nixon">Angelique V. Nixon</a></span>)</span></span>, and
visit my blog: <i>consciousvibration.blogspo</i><wbr></wbr><i>t.com.</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And finally<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">,<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">'m thrilled to be going home to Nassau for<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/121436531552405/" target="_blank">Book Launch and Panel </a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/121436531552405/" target="_blank">Discussion</a> hosted by the <b>National Art Gallery of the Baham</b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>as (NAGB)</b> on <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">20th November<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">!</span> I will<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">give</span></span> a boo<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">k presentation a<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nd then <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">engage in a discussion</span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with artist </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="fsl">John Cox, activist Erin Greene, and COB lecturers Keithley Woolward<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and</span> Nicolette Bethel. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We will <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">be discussing these questions and more that I <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">grapple with</span> in the book:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="fsl">
<i>How do we Live &<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>Imagine in “<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">P</span>aradise”? What is the relationship
between tourism and culture? How do gender, race, and sexual labour
intersect in this relationship? What are the (social and economic) costs
of producing “paradise”? How does tourism affect our identity? Can “Art
Tourism” (locally led) be a viable and more ethical model of tourism?
What are sites of rebellion and freedom?</i></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span class="fsl"></span></span></span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span class="fsl"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The
Bahamas is featured prominently in the book: </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The cover
features Bahamian artist John Beadle's "Emancipation
Boat Cruise" (1998) which is housed in the NAGB's permanent collection. I discuss Bahamian art
throughout -- investigating Junkanoo as both tourist
product and form of resistance, my interview with Arlene Nash Ferguson
about Junkanoo and EduCulture, analysis of Bahamian artwork by Dionne Benjamin
Smith, Veronica Dorsett and Piaget Moss, as well as my interview with
John Cox about The Current and Art Tourism. The book also offers readings
of several Caribbean writers, including Bahamian poet Marion Bethel and Bahamian-Trinidadian poet Christian
Campbell. One of my chapters "Living and Imagining in Paradise: The
Culture of a Tourist Economy" is a case study of the Bahamas, in which I discuss several interviews I conducted with workers in the tourism and culture industries. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">So for me, it is vital to have a discussion about the book in the Bahamas -- and to share my work there in a public forum. Since academic work is too often limited in accessibility -- I hope this event and others that I will organize around the book can work against that. I am driven by a feminist praxis and research ethic, which is how I approached the writing and research of the book. I plan to engage the sharing of the work in the same way. (Though the book is very expensive <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because the first prin<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ting is in </span></span>hardcover, but it will be in paperback soon and much cheaper hopefully by next year! <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I work to bal<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ance that <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by extending</span> my author discount <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at book launches/events</span> -- and also giving books to my graduate students I'm working with in Trinidad and giving to friends and family as I can</span></span>). Still working out the best practices <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">while also pro<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">moting <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and selling the book -- so that i<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">t will go to second printing and paperback.</span></span></span></span> </span></span></span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="fsl"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="fsl"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Nassau Guardian ran a feature on t<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">he la<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">u<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">nch<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> and discussion <a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/component/content/article/60604" target="_blank">"The Way Forward"</a><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span>on 14 November 2015. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">M</span>ore on th<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is event soon! </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="fsl"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<br />Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-23148882881655708622015-07-30T19:21:00.002-04:002019-10-10T09:47:49.471-04:00Reflections on my Fulbright Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After a very long break from sharing on my blog, I am finally back -- and going to do a recap and highlights of the last seven months! I'm wrapping up my Fulbright year in Trinidad and the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, St. Augustine UWI. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And I'm thrilled to announce that I will be staying on as a Lecturer (full time post) for the foreseeable future! I feel incredibly honored and blessed with this opportunity and what the last year has brought me. It's been amazing!!! And so here are some highlights -- as I continue to use my blog space as a way to share and recap. One day soon I may get back into a more regular routine of blogging... but I make no promises ;-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These days I'm mostly on Instagram sharing my art/poetry and on the Facebook to keep in touch with my peeps and share news and work-related events.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So let's start end of last year / beginning of the year and work to most recent -- focusing on my writing, art, and speaking engagements:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1) In late December, my review of Trinidadian artist Shalini Seereeram's new and beautiful collection was featured in ARC Magazine. The article is titled <a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2014/12/terrains-of-female-desire-women-loving-women-and-radical-acts-of-self-care-in-shalini-seereerams-intimate-moments/" target="_blank">"Terrains of Female Desire: Women-loving Women and Radical Acts of Self Care in Shalini Seereeram's Intimate Moments."</a></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2) For International Women's Day (6 March 2015), Krystal Ghisyawan and I launched the three parts of our Artivist Project -- <b>Sixteen Days: Art and Reflection on Ending Gender-based Violence</b> -- as the final outcome of a
three-part collaborative project of reflections and original artwork
produced in commemoration of the 16 Days of Activism Against
Gender-based Violence Campaign (from Nov 25, 2014 the International
Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to Dec 10, 2014
Human Rights Day). </span><br />
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Power, and Change are all combined in this video presentation here,
narrated by our voices as we SPEAK UP! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3) My artwork, <b>Troubling Identities</b>, a short art film / new media was on exhibit at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas for the <a href="http://nagbne.org/" target="_blank">7th Annual Exhibition, Antillean: An Ecology</a> (Dec 2014 through May 2015). And I am thrilled to announce that my work will be included in an exhibit in Austria, "Nassau Calling -- Art in The Bahamas [Re]-visited" (Sept - Nov 2015). For a short time, I have my film available on <a href="https://vimeo.com/133810086" target="_blank">Vimeo (low res quality)</a>. (In the exhibits, it is/will be a much higher video quality.) Feel free to check it out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4) In March, I presented my new research project at the Institute for Gender and Development, St. Augustine, UWI, as a Lunchtime Seminar. The title of my presentation was "<b>The Problem of ‘Rights’: Movements for Gender and Sexual Justice in the Caribbean" </b>-- and here is short description of my talk:<br /><br />Public
discourse around movements to reform and enact gender policies across
the Caribbean has led to tenuous debates regarding issues of sexual and
LGBT rights. These debates reveal anxieties about ‘rights’ and who
should have access to protection. This presentation will offer a
comparative analysis of these issues through an examination of public
discourse, with a particular focus on The Bahamas and Trinidad and
Tobago. My project investigates the ways sexual minorities and migrant
communities (in certain cases) have been scapegoated as “the problem” in
public debates regarding the expansion of rights, especially for women,
thereby pitting women’s rights against sexual and LGBT rights. The
larger contexts of gender-based violence and opposition to abortion and
reproductive rights will be considered alongside fears regarding a
so-called gay lobby and the use of religion and anti-imperial rhetoric.
Overall, my research reveals how movements for gender and sexual justice
in the region continue to be deeply affected by limited discourses on
rights, equality, gender, sex, and sexuality; hence, I suggest new
strategies for social change.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5) In April, <b><span style="font-size: small;">I continued my work in </span></b><span style="font-size: small;">Haiti for the 5<sup>th</sup> Delegation of <a href="http://www.ayitiresurrect.org/" target="_blank">Ayiti Resurrect</a> – a grassroots collective focused on healing and community resilience. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: #141823;">Ayiti
Resurrect is a collaboration of visionary artists, community builders,
holistic healers, and sustainable farmers from Komye (rural community in
Leogane, Haiti) and the Haitian and African Diasporas.</span> <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: #141823;">They have been working on the ground in Haiti since 2010 in unique partnership and local diasporic exchange and solidarity</span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: #222222;">.</span><span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: #141823;"> </span>I have been part of the core collective team since its inception and
directly involved in the delegation coordination, fundraising,
activities and community-led initiatives. The delegation included an
intensive week of programming focused on women's empowerment,
sustainable agriculture, education, art, and natural wellness. <span style="background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto auto; color: #141823;"> I co-facilitated workshops on African diaspora storytelling and
Black Haitian pride for primary school children. Also, I
co-facilitated skill shares for women on computers, creating herbal
value-added products, micro-business enterprise, sexual rights/agency,
and sexual education/health. One of the goals for this delegation was to
support women's leadership among the Komye community partners, which
will foster community development overall. It was an amazing and incredibly productive delegation, and as usual we learned more with each journey and each activity. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7) And I attended the <a href="http://caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/" target="_blank"><b>CSA (Caribbean Studies Association) conference</b></a> in New Orleans end of May and presented two papers of new research projects, and also participated in a roundtable on Barbara Christian's legacy. The conference was incredibly busy and intense for me as I officially began my new volunteer (appointed) position with CSA as the 2016 Program Co-Chair of the 41st annual conference, which will be held in Haiti for the first time. As we plan for Haiti, I have worked on many many things (too numerous to list), but one that I am particularly proud of is working on the <a href="http://caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/statement-drhaitianissue" target="_blank">official CSA statement against the deportation and denaturalization of Dominicans of Haitian Descent</a>, as well as developing the <a href="http://caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/callforpapers" target="_blank">Call for Papers and Proposals</a> and visioning/planning for the conference, which will be held in June 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9) There is so much more -- from Jouvay and Carnival to honoring the life and legacy of Claudia Jones; and a few community building projects that I'm working on (developing workshops for young people who are considered "at risk" using poetry, music, and stick fighting -- soon launch the pilot program in September!)... and teaching undergraduates at UWI and also continuing my work with graduate students has restored my love of teaching! much to share... and to say... But for now, making this offering on my blog of reflections and highlights of the past few months as I wrap up my very successful Fulbright year in Trinidad and Tobago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm blessed and filled with gratitude to be here and continuing my work throughout the region. I visioned and manifested to stay in the region and create homespace here in Trinidad. And the universe has granted this wish for me. As I do -- grasping opportunities and making the best of it all. Living each moment as fiercely and defiantly as my ancestors and community.</span><br />
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-53609551614675680342014-12-26T08:38:00.000-05:002014-12-26T08:46:19.587-05:00"Change" -- Sixteen Days: Art and Reflection on Ending Gender-based Violence <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/zO9Z1JN3w_g" width="420"></iframe></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the final video of our three-part series "Sixteen Days," we are thinking through community-based solutions and restorative justice as we continue to raise awareness about different forms of gender-based violence. Prisons and incarceration are not the answer. We need revolutionary solutions with visionary transformation of our communit<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ies and consciousness. Deep Rooted Change.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br /></span>"Today the reactionary calls for more and more laws to create order. The revolutionary should be able to conceive of struggling for a society which is based more on the wisdom of men and women than on laws. Fighting for more laws is like fighting for better jails. We believe in prison reform, but those who concentrate their energies on struggling for prison reform are not revolutionaries. They have no vision of a new society in which we will need fewer jails. Today, the more you try to reform institutions rather than to change people, the worse things become. All you are doing is increasing human dependence upon institutions; you are multiplying bureaucracies and diverting human energies and attention from the changes that people have to make in themselves." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- From Conversations in Maine (1978) by James and Grace Lee Boggs, Freddy and Lyman Paine</span></div>
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<br />Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-78688209176641572612014-12-06T19:40:00.002-05:002014-12-06T19:40:52.880-05:00BodyPower -- Sixteen Days: Art and Reflection on Ending Gender-Based Violence<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from Beloved by Toni Morrison -- may we sing these words in our heart<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">s today and everyday:</span></span></div>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your flesh. They despise it. They don't love your eyes; they'd just as soon pick em out. No more do they love the skin on your back. Yonder they flay it. And O my people they do not love your hands. Those they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty. Love your hands! Love them. Raise them up and kiss them. Touch others with them, pat them together, stroke them on your face 'cause they don't love that either. You got to love it, you! And no, they ain't in love with your mouth. Yonder, out there, they will see it broken and break it again. What you say out of it they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear. What you put into it to nourish your body they will snatch away and give you leavins instead. No, they don't love your mouth. You got to love it. This is flesh I'm talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need support; shoulders that need arms, strong arms I'm telling you. And O my people, out yonder, hear me, they do not love your neck unnoosed and straight. So love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up. and all your inside parts that they'd just as soon slop for hogs, you got to love them. The dark, dark liver--love it, love it and the beat and beating heart, love that too. More than eyes or feet. More than lungs that have yet to draw free air. More than your life-holding womb and your life-giving private parts, hear me now, love your heart. For this is the prize.”</span></span></blockquote>
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-23308919279356798532014-11-30T22:41:00.001-05:002019-10-10T09:45:18.178-04:00Trinidad Adventures<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It's been a long time... I dove into my work and exciting movements in Trinidad... and well... haven't made the time to reflect or post on my blog... but the work continues... and with the assault on Black lives in the United States (and everywhere... cause anti-Blackness exists globally), it's been hard to share/express the sadness, grief, and anger... so I must keep working, keep writing, and keep doing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The past four months have been filled with adventures, blessings, fulfilling work, and community, intellectual, artistic exchange. My time here has been truly inspiring, rejuvenating, and healing. I am related ancestrally to Trinidad, and so I have always felt a connection every time I've visited. But now that I'm living here, it really feels like home more and more everyday. I am working hard and enjoying every minute of it. Teaching my first graduate seminar on Sexualities, Bodies and Power, and also mentoring and working with incredible graduate students (at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, St. Augustine Unit, UWI) has restored my love for being an educator in an academic setting. I'm so grateful for this time and for the Fulbright Award. I feel incredibly blessed and am confident that this is exactly where I am meant to be.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've been able to share much of myself as an activist and artist in my workplace and through community building during this time. And of course, I've been writing and creating so much! I worked really hard on the final final edits for my book when I got here in September, and then on other articles and short pieces. Also, I worked on and completed some new art projects. And still engaged in several community-based projects.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I published an article on ARC magazine about Gabrielle Civil's performance art -- the piece is titled "</span><a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2014/09/creating-space-and-speaking-silence-in-black-womens-performance-art/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">Creating Space and Speaking Silence in Black Women’s Performance Art: The Body Power of Gabrielle Civil’s “Fugue – Dissolution, Accra</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">.”</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And finally -- my Current Tides creative partner (Tei Okamoto) for <a href="http://currenttides.org/" target="_blank">The Love and Affection Project</a> encouraged me to share my story about my mother -- during a presentation he hosted at Columbia University about our project, and since I couldn't be there in person, I recorded my story and also a description of our work. I</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">n honor of World AIDS Day (Dec 1st), we decided to share the recording of my story on our website to pay tribute to my mum. This is a launch of our first sharing of stories we've been collecting over the past year. Check it out </span><a href="http://currenttides.org/crossings/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">here on our new page "Crossings"</a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> -- a taste of what the Love & Affection art exhibition of stories will be in the near future (planning for summer 2015).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">peace, love, blessings & conscious vibes from Trinidad! </span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="line-height: 16.969696044921875px;" style="line-height: 16.969696044921875px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1) I'm moving to Trinidad in August! I'm going to be a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago! </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.969696044921875px;">I am beyond thrilled and feeling incredibly blessed and so grateful! Found out in late March and its been a whirlwind of making plans and getting ready for my big move!!! I'm still giddy with joy and excitement! I feel like this has been a long time coming -- I am ready to be back in warmth and homespaces of the Caribbean. *~*~* </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.969696044921875px;">I will miss being in the NYC area... and all my NYC peeps and community... but sooooooooo happy to be going on this new journey! I plan to write lots and post regularly about my work in Trinidad and hope to be more on the social media... I will be joining twitter (finally... I know... way late...) more on that soon.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="line-height: 16.969696044921875px;" style="line-height: 16.969696044921875px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2) Spring in New York -- Being photographed for a beautiful exhibit by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn called "<a href="http://www.bet.com/news/national/photos/2014/04/new-exhibition-explores-complexities-of-queer-black-women.html#!041514-national-brooklyn-photographer-exhibits-series-on-black-women-and-queer-identities-Laylah-Amatullah-angelique-nixon" target="_blank">You May Sit Beside Me: Visual Narratives of Black Women and Queer Identities</a>"; Spending time with Angela Davis during her scholar in residence week at NYU's Institute of African American Affairs; Attending the Beyond the Bars conference at Columbia; and Moderating a really powerful series "<a href="http://www.nyuiaaa.org/event-items/brother-to-brother-sister-to-sister-a-series-celebrating-the-works-of-lgbt-artists/" target="_blank">Brother to Brother, Sister to Sister</a>" celebrating LGBTQ artists at NYU's Institute of African American Affairs with Seyi Adebanjo, James Earl Hardy, C. Riley Snorton, and Q-Roc Ragsdale. (It was a dynamic evening of exchange and intensely beautiful conversation about Black genders and sexualities. Thanks to Jaira Placide for organizing and inviting us!) </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.969696044921875px;">I started writing a piece about all these adventures... but alas never finished... I plan to get back to it... at some point and will post reflections and such.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.969696044921875px;">4) Epic Summer Journeys -- a beautiful mixture of work, writing retreats, and spending time with my chosen family and beautiful peeps -- started in May with the Caribbean Studies Association conference in Merida, Mexico and continued in Fort Lauderdale for my bday/month celebrations and Miami for the S.P.A.C.E. annual writing retreat, and then early July with the Essence Music Fest in New Orleans! Prince!!! 30th anniversary of Purple Rain - Epic! Jill Scott and Mary J. Blige were fantastic! And as if the weekend couldn't get any better -- met Erykah Badu and got into special VIP after-party with Erykah spinning! We spent a magical evening in her freak-quency. The summer is still going and there are more journeys to write/reflect on soon soon... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.969696044921875px;">5) In April, I had the great opportunity to exhibit my new artwork "moon rituals in times of crisis" at <a href="http://www.popopstudios.com/transforming-spaces-2014/" target="_blank">Transforming Spaces in The Bahamas</a>! It was an honor to be included and get to work with brilliant artists from across the region. See pics from the installation and more info below -- and also check out the audio file I created for the installation (my poem, "moon bathing"). Since my work was up at Popop only for a short time, I wanted to share it on this space. I also have a <a href="http://consciousvibration.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Tumblr page</a> that will eventually have each piece uploaded so people can see each one in more detail. I planned for this project to exist digitally and so still working on how that will be and if I want to show this in the future... But for now, here is a taste! </span></div>
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<i>I'm still glowing in the light of all this -- feeling incredibly blessed!!! And celebrating myself in this start of my 38th solar return! I'm in the midst of packing up my life, putting most of my stuff in storage, planning for early August travels and then my big move to Trinidad at the end of August :) until then... I have way too much to do... so I'm bending time and working under the cosmic spells of moon magic.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>This month has been intense... especially for me up in the wintery wetlands of the North... bitter cold days, snow storm after snowpocolyse and then some more... so I've been in hibernation mostly - working, creating, and in deep reflection about all kinds of movements and planning for what's next in my journey. I'm praying for springtime and sunshine and truthfully ready for summer heat! So much going on and too much to share... so just a recap - writing, teaching, and deep in the thick of figuring out my life... I feel like many of us that it's time for change... we are in times of crisis and major shifts in planetary consciousness. Our time is now... and so with all of that, this post is just about sharing a couple few things I've been working on: like this project I started with a good friend of mine (Tei Okamoto) last year - called Love and Affection. And this year, we have officially launched our website and creative partnership called <a href="http://currenttides.org/" target="_blank">Current Tides</a>. Our first project is in progress!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Love and Affection Project is an oral history project that will be the first archive of its kind to explore and record the lives of those who were affected by the epidemic as a child and/or young adult and lost either one or both parents/guardians to AIDS related complications. We seek to hear, record, and remember the stories and events that shaped a young person, now grown, whose parent/guardian/caretaker died of HIV/AIDS. While the project is based in the United States, we aim to include many of the voices of the epidemic internationally. We also acknowledge communities that are most affected by HIV/AIDS and would like to privilege voices and communities that are marginalized and underrepresented.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creative partners Angelique V. Nixon and Tei Okamoto work actively in various communities and are dedicated to radical movements for social change. They are invested in contributing to the oral history archive of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. They have engaged in preliminary research through talking with people living with HIV who have adult children. Furthermore, both of them have been affected by HIV/AIDS - losing loved ones, caring for loved ones, and one of them (Angelique) lost a parent to AIDS in 1996. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have both experienced the myriad ways that stories about HIV/AIDS and death remain silenced - particularly in marginalized communities (i.e. poor and working class communities, immigrant communities, queer communities, and communities of color - and across the intersections of these). Together, we come from and represent these communities - poor, working class, migrant, queer, and of color - and though we exist at different intersections, we connect through shared experiences. Hence, our investment in this project is multifaceted - personal, political, spiritual, and emotional.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And another thing I've been working on... excited to share on my blog -- my essay just published in <i>The Feminist Wire</i> as part of the Audre Lorde Forum celebrating her 80th Birthday. I was so honored to be invited and included in this powerful collection. During my final edits of the piece, I decided to start the essay reflecting on the power of her poetry and how much especially <i>The Black Unicorn</i> continues to be a force in my life -- especially the poem "A Woman Speaks" -- </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>"I have been woman / </i></span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for a long time / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">beware my smile / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am treacherous with old magic / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the noon’s new fury / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with all your wide futures / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">promised / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">woman / </i><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and not white."</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-- which inspired the title of my essay... and here is the link:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"i am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. <br />
and i am not free as long as one person of color remains chained. nor is any one of you." <br />
#audrelorde #blackunicorn #blacklivesmatter #toloveblacknessisradical #lovingdifference<br />
*(on Instagram @sistellablack)*</td></tr>
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<br />Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-25420408541407108582014-02-01T03:01:00.002-05:002014-02-01T03:32:09.722-05:00"Caribbean Crossings, In Motion"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"What is the Caribbean in fact? A multiple series of relationships. We feel it, we express it in all kinds of hidden or twisted ways, or fiercely deny it. But we sense that this sea exists within us with its weight of now revealed islands." </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">- Edouard Glissant, <i>Caribbean Discourse</i> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Under the surface, bursting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in my bloodlines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">these genes of rememory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Trinidad feels like home<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">maybe I know here – this place<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">this space of my ancestors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I want to know about their lives,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">my maternal great grandparents<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">what did they experience in these streets,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in these hills of Port of Spain, whispering
to me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">finally, you have returned, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">we have been waiting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I know they moved to Inagua, Bahamas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">these lines of African descent <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">movements across and inside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the Caribbean Sea, stories lost in motion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">all I have is this picture of my great-gramma<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in my head, a photograph mummy carried of
you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">tall, poised, proud in brown flesh, long arms
heavy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">with salt, eyes full of wisdom, stature full
of strength, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">mouth curved and hard, from the experiences
of your life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I will never know<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">but can wonder and imagine you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">wield you into an existence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">if only in my mind, if only on this page<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">these words come to me, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">mummy telling me about you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">how you loved and held her up through <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">hard times, dreaming you into being,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">the stories, these Caribbean gifts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">of Anancy magic, walking with spirit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">in this place, where I make sense<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">my face, my mix-up Blackness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">my fyah, woman loving, cosmic warrior self.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">II.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jamaica, knows me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">before I reach, get to know her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was here before<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">by way of spirit, perhaps<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">through ancestors, for sure<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">my paternal great-grandfather<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I hear much later through lost stories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">moved to Nassau, Bahamas
from Jamaica<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">by way of China, details
submerged <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">like his memory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">gramma born out of wedlock<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">these lines of Chinese descent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">messy and spoken in secret shame<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">yet his blood rebukes this silence<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">haunting generations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">mixed with great-grandmother’s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">blurry ancestry and hushed tones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">of Blackness, hidden through light-skin,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">straight hair and light eyes,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">separated from brown skin siblings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">these lines create forgetting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I trace myself back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">through the streets of Kingston<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">seeing reflections, in motion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">red, Black-Chiney, brown, mango skin, woman,
sun kissed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Bahamagal potcake, to make sense in this
place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">rooting self in Reasonings at Blackspace,
Woodside,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">we people of the African Diaspora <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I rememory for all of us (African, Asian,
Indigenous)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">diving into all we darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">to make sense of we stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">III.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Caribbean spaces of here and there, crossings,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">linked through shared horrors and struggles, histories/herstories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">(conquest, removal, slavery, the middle
passage, death, plantation, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">labour, indentureship, another passage,
colonization, control, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">migration, extraction, detention, occupation)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">yet our differences, our uniqueness, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">we be struggling still for emancipation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">of our minds, bodies, and spaces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">beyond geo-political-graphic location<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">spatially expanding, Caribbean communities <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and identities striving to become whole <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">at home and abroad, rising with the tides<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">connective tissue around all these spaces <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">fiery mix up of people, cultures, languages<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">yet we twisted into silence and divisions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">that serve us no longer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">remember, the sea and bush know, we secrets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">stories of defiance, strength, battles,
rebels, trouble makers, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">resistance, crossing lines of color, status,
sex, and place,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">from the magic of Boukman to Nanny and the
Maroons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and Morant Bay Rebellion to the Grenadian
Revolution<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">when we fought against slave masters,
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">fighting for we stolen lives, stolen stories,
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">carving spaces for independence and self
determination<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">but we still just surviving<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">when we need to thrive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">and recreate we spaces to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">as complex and ever-changing as we see<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">interplay of being in motion – the past being
ever present –<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">forging a future that is ours and free.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"We Resist" - Word Art, Oil Pastel by Angelique V. Nixon</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>for our blood, mixed</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>soon with their passion in sport, </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>in indifference, in anger,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>will create new soils, new souls, new</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>ancestors; will flow like this tide fixed</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>to the star by which this ship floats</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>to new worlds, new waters, new</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>harbours, the pride of our ancestors mixed </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>with the wind and the water</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>the flesh and the flies, the whips and the fixed</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>fear of pain in this chained and welcoming port.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>~ Kamau Brathwaite “New World A-Comin”</i></span></div>
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-56088624440342834832013-12-30T21:33:00.000-05:002013-12-30T21:33:16.651-05:00Voices of Dissent -- New WomanSpeak Issue <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I have so much to share for my end of year / start of the new year reflections on the blog... and these will come in the next few posts... but for now - wanted to share exciting publishing news -- The latest issue of <i>WomanSpeak, A Journal of Writing and Art by Caribbean Women </i>edited by Lynn Sweeting <i>-- </i>Issue 7 -- <a href="http://www.lulu.com/shop/lynn-sweeting/womanspeak-a-journal-of-writing-and-art-by-caribbean-women-vol72014/paperback/product-21293884.html">with Lulu</a>. The issue features 30 contemporary Caribbean women writers and artists -- and includes fiction, poetry, fairy tales, essays and paintings! I just got my copy and feeling very blessed to be part of this collection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Two of my poems are featured in the beautiful collection themed "Voices of Dissent: Writing and Art to Transform the Culture" -- I wrote both of these pieces with resistance and radical transformation on my tongue and desire for social change and major shifts on my mind/heart/spirit -- making sense of and learning from we histories and herstories. May this collection and our shared creativity continue to offer space for reflection, questioning, sharing, and building the world we dream/imagine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here are my offerings: </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Occupying Dissent Long Time<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New York,
26 Oct 2011<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Angelique V. Nixon</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this new moon in october vibrates <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">through the echos of change, we want now<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i obsess over websites, occupy blogs, live streams, and democracy
now<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in between weekend visits to new york<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">join the people of color working group at occupy wall street<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cause it’s the only space i feel at home in well-meaning whiteness<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">diving right into work and organizing of this<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wondrous and complex movement<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">transforming like fall leaves<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we must be like the wind to keep up<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and i ask, as Black mixed-race Caribbean migrant queer woman,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how can we rise as a people (people of color, united in our shared
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">long experienced in lack <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">deportation, displacement, dehumanization, economic and social
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the lingering effects of slavery and colonialism,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Communities of color, the poor and working class, immigrant
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">formerly & currently incarcerated, trans people, undocumented
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and others who are marginalized have long known <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what so many people are waking up to now,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yeah, we know this shit ain't right.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">all over <span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>the
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">out of corporate controlled, puppet-like governments<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">out of the privatization of natural resources<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our world torn and divided by too much<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yet the complex unity of this 99%<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">experiencing myriad levels of inequity and injustice<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">people of color, let us occupy this dissent<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">let us dissent within/through/after this occupation <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan—colonial weapons, neocolonial silences, utensils of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">Many people and organizations have responded to
the Dominican Republic's recent assault on Dominicans of Haitian ancestry. And
in the past few weeks, there have been a number of developments - including CARICOM
with strong and necessary <a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/11/caricom-chastises-dominican-republic-deportations/">statements in protest</a> and <a href="http://www.sentinel.ht/politics/articles/international/5218-caricom-suspend-dominican-republic-bid-membership">suspending the DR's bid for membership</a>. And
meanwhile, the mediated talks between Haiti and Dominican Republic are not
going well - as reports of deportations and violence along the border make
headlines. This is all too disturbing and reeks of the historical tensions and
violence between these two countries. I have written about these issues in the
past. And was invited to write an article about the recent ruling for
<i>Groundation Grenada</i> early in November. Here are some highlights:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my article titled, "Limbo Citizens or Stateless
People?: Human Rights, Migration, and the Future for Dominicans of Haitian
Ancestry," I offer some context for understanding the issues, while also
discussing the ways Haitian migrants and their children remain vulnerable
across the region (specifically making comparisons to the the Bahamas). And I
discuss the implications of the ruling: "What we do know is that the
ruling places already vulnerable people into a more vulnerable position, and
thereby subject to further exploitation as limbo citizens or stateless people
are created."</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I also take up <a href="http://www.myriamchancy.com/apartheid-in-the-americas-are-you-haitian/">Myriam Chancy's argument</a> that this ruling
really creates and reinforces civic death for Haitian migrants and Dominicans
of Haitian descent, and I add for Haitian migrants around the region:
"This issue of creating civic death is what we need to most be alarmed
about in the face of increasing social and economic inequality, forced
migration, and environmental challenges facing the region; we are living in
uncertain and dangerous times. And while we don’t want to support or replicate
neocolonial paradigms upon each other in the region, we must find ways to hold
each other accountable for any violations of human rights; and I would further
argue that we must find more ethical ways to deal with migration and rights
across the region, especially for our Haitian brothers and sisters."</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"></span></span><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I argue that we must develop regional solutions
grounded in a shared vision of justice and equality -- fighting against human
rights abuses, deportation, statelessness, and legal limbo. I ask: what
does regional solidarity look like in the face of our shared and continued
struggles? I offer some visioning of a future where we all can live with
dignity and in freedom. </span></span><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I envision a future where people do not
have to flee and escape their homelands out of fear or poverty in search of
safety, basic needs, and better opportunities elsewhere. I envision a future
where no one experiences civic death or non-being, where we all can live with
dignity and in freedom. I envision a future where Caribbean people have created
innovative solutions to our economic, political, and environmental problems. I
envision a Pan Caribbean future decolonized and grounded in knowledge of our
ancestors, histories/herstories, and myths. I envision a socially just and
equal future with open borders and a thriving empowered community, where we
love and embrace all the parts of ourselves."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">See <a href="http://groundationgrenada.com/2013/11/05/limbo-citizens-or-stateless-people-human-rights-migration-and-the-future-for-dominicans-of-haitian-ancestry/">my full article on Groundation Grenada</a>, published
on 5 November 2013. (<i>Give thanks to the Groundation Grenada collective for the
opportunity and space to share my reflections, and to Nadia Huggins for the
haunting and beautiful photographs that were paired with my article.</i>)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Since so much has happened since my article early in November, I wanted to use this blog post to offer some updates and more reflections on these issues. And so <a href="http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/topstory-Social-genocide-in-Dominican-Republic%2C-says-civil-society-group-18891.html">the assault continues</a> and it seems that
the <a href="http://www.caribjournal.com/2013/12/02/dominican-president-signs-decree-on-new-citizenship-policy/">Dominican Republic's government is holding fast to its
decision</a> in spite of CARICOM's response and civil
organizations' protests and petitions, violence and mass deportations are on
the rise. <a href="http://repeatingislands.com/2013/11/30/dominican-republic-launches-migrant-children-plan/">The plan</a> launched (to enact the ruling) last week gives people
just 18 months to request Dominican citizenship for children born to
undocumented migrants - but there are no clear requirements outlined yet for
this process. Clearly, this is a violation of human rights to citizenship as
this birthright is stripped away from people who are most vulnerable and targets Haitian migrants, Haitian Dominicans, and their children. And with this plan,
the DR will be able to legally deport Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian
ancestry -- which they have already been doing for years - even as they depend
on their labor and exploit their limbo/stateless status.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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treatment of Haitian migrants happens not only in the DR and the United States,
but also in the Bahamas. Last week, on 26 November, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/27/haitian-migrants-die-bahamas-capsize">a boat capsized with Haitian migrants</a> on
board fleeing Haiti through Bahamian waters; <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/us/10-haitians-dead-after-boat-capsizes-off-bahamas.html?_r=0">over 30 Haitians died</a> and <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/02/3793221/bahamas-returns-haitian-migrants.html">111 of the survivors have been detained and will be deported</a> back
to Haiti. These news reports are devastating - especially knowing that this is not an isolated incident. The articles do a fairly decent job of reporting on this tragedy and offer some context: i.e. attempting to explain why Haitians are fleeing and discussing
the earthquake slow recovery, poverty, and economic struggle and dire hardship experienced by many Haitian people. NPR made connections between the DR court
ruling and this specific incident in <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/11/28/247635908/many-haitians-leave-dominican-republic-after-court-decision">this radio report</a> about Haitians leaving the
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received much headline news coverage I think mostly because of the ruling
and its clear violation of human rights. While I appreciate the focus and
attention on Haiti at this moment, it's important to know that these
deportations happen all the time from the Bahamas and boats capsize and people
are detained everyday. I continue to feel great shame - as a Bahamian - over
our treatment of Haitian migrants. And in the midst of the debates and
politics, even though I know the Bahamas is pressured by the United States to
be "tough" on migration, I ask where is our sense of compassion and
humanity... How can we continue to deport people in these conditions... When
will we take a stronger stand (in the Bahamas, the DR, and broadly across the region)
and acknowledge our connections -- and accept that Haiti is part of us and we
are part of Haiti -- and take stronger, future oriented, regionally focused,
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and solutions to these issues. We have to find better ways of dealing with
migration, citizenship, regional movement, and labor. And so I keep visioning
a better future - one with dignity and freedom for Haiti and Haitians all over
the world, for all migrants who have similar experiences, for the Caribbean and
all Caribbean people - coming together across our differences to create and
build regional solidarity. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">And while I don't have any concrete answers, I know that I must write and use my voice to speak out and say something... and I've also been building with the grassroots healing collective <a href="http://www.ayitiresurrect.org/">Ayiti Resurrect</a> since the earthquake -- doing what I can to support healing and community building in Haiti. We are preparing for our fourth delegation and <a href="http://igg.me/at/ayitiresurrect/x/547873">fundraising though Indiegogo</a>. </span></span><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're raising funds to continue the work we've been doing for the past three years in partnership with local Haitian organizations and members of the Komye community in Leogane, Haiti.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With recovery efforts still underway in Haiti post earthquake, this recent assault on Dominicans of Haitian ancestry, mass deportations and poor treatment of Haitian migrants all over, there is still so much work to do. And it is vital that recovery and healing for Haiti led by Haitians is at the center of this work. Ayiti Resurrect's mission and vision has always been one where the community is at the center and heart of what we do - and we support these efforts through diasporic connections and collaborations -- as a collective of people with bloodlines in the Caribbean and the African Diaspora. We are a small grassroots organization - building year by year, project by project, and person to person. This is how I'm visioning dignity and freedom.</span><br />
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-84206252957214517742013-10-31T23:57:00.002-04:002013-12-04T16:44:20.570-05:00Epic Journeys, Part Two<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Epic Journeys, Part Two - reflections</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I promised to share more about my epic summer journeys... and now I'm deep into fall journeys... Its been a hectic past few months and so I haven't had a chance to get back to the blog and share. Swamped with deadlines, teaching, writing, finishing projects, and working on new ones, I'm feeling incredibly blessed as I reflect on all that I've been up to these past months. And most importantly, finished my scholarly book last month and sent it off to the editor for what I hope and trust will be the final review process. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally coming up for air... and ready to share a bit more about my travels -- a recap through photos and brief descriptions... and just playin catch up on the blog. Still processing my powerful and inspiring time in Ghana for the Yari Yari Ntoaso 3rd International Conference on Literature by Women of African Ancestry. So grateful for all the new connections and intense exchange. And grateful for all those who made this gathering happen (Rosamond King and Jaira Placide especially). I'm still thinking about all brilliance we shared and the beautiful fellowship among so many warrior sistren writers and artists. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Highlights for me: spending time and being nourished in light of Angela Davis and Ama Ata Aidoo; connecting with and exchanging books with these fabulous writers - Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Olumide Popoola, Dorothea Smartt, Zetta Elliot, Gabrielle Civil, and Latasha N. Nevada Diggs; honoring Jayne Cortez who started Yari Yari and OWWA - celebrating her light, knowing she was with us throughout the conference; presenting my community/activist work (focusing on Ayiti Resurrect) on the Authors and Action panel with fierce women (including one of my sheros Eintou Pearl Springer); reading from my book <i>Saltwater Healing</i> as a featured writer at PAWA House; and participating in "Writing through the Body: Performance Art" - piece #1 Led by Wura-Natasha Ogunji - "Mo gbo, mo branch" (that focuses on women, migration, and movement in public spaces). She invited six of us to join her to create this piece in which we each carried vessels of dirt, then spread the dirt onto the ground, making different imprints with our bodies, erasing the imprint and starting again. We did this four times, and then scooped up all the dirt and put it all back into our vessels and walked off in a line carrying the vessels on our heads. For me, the performance spoke of the often invisible and hard labor of women and how women's bodies are seen and move around the world. It also made me think about migration and what we leave when we spend time, live or move to a particular place and what it means to create homespace, leave, and return or not. I was really honored to participate and perform - it was incredibly powerful and spiritual.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the conference, we had an intense day trip to Cape Coast and the Elmina Slave Castle - overwhelming and necessary... poems emerging from these experiences... soon come. Also I got to spend some time in the Du Bois Center and the George Padmore Library. And finally, we took a two day trip to Kumasi and got to see the countryside of Ghana during the drive - and while in Kumasi we visited the markets and the cultural center - getting just a taste of the beautiful city. Spending quality time with friends and sharing in the post conference inspirations. During our drive back to Accra, the supermoon was rising above the mountains, and I spent the night chasing the moon, feeling her power/magic. That moon, the beach in Accra, sharing space with friends, feeling the ancestors, walking with spirit... I treasure those moments and hold them very close... Feeling affirmed and rooted in the work I am here to do because of journeys like these... </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are my photos of the conference and travels around Ghana: </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10103588466725731.1073741829.2035340&type=1&l=68400a2757" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Facebook Album Yari Yari</a>.)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This summer was all about return for me... I travelled back to places I have been before, and so each place felt comfortable yet new at the same time -- seeing it again with older eyes. Ghana still felt like home, like it did the first time I visited over 10 years ago (for a study abroad). And this time I got to see new places and being there for Yari Yari and sharing the journey with sistren writers and artists made it an incredibly unique experience. Just a week after epic journey to Ghana, I was back in the air traveling to Grenada for the Caribbean Studies Association conference in June. Presented my scholarly work on two panels -- one was a unique double panel in honor of Audre Lorde (led by Lyndon Gill and Alison Donnell) - we built an altar, and I had the great privilege to read Jacqui Alexander's fierce opening remarks! (pure fyah) and then I closed our honoring with my poem Libation, and we had the most beautiful dancers and drummers. It was truly a powerful afternoon and a welcome/needed intervention into the academic space of the conference. It was in many ways an anti-panel. I also did several other things at the conference - discussed the <i><a href="http://www.caribbeanhomophobias.org/" target="_blank">Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean</a></i> collection on a journals roundtable, and I facilitated the sexualities working group meeting. And finally, I read my poetry at the Literary Salon, sharing the stage with the amazing Merle Collins (an incredible honor). I also had the most amazing time at the ARC 7 launch - a really fierce collaboration with Groundation Grenada that featured a reading with Oonya Kempadoo and film screenings. Overall, I had the most productive time in Grenada. Her land/seascape was just what I needed... reminding me how much I miss my Caribbean homespace... And how important Grenada is for all of us... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The summer continued with a much needed writing retreat with my SPACE collective (what happens at SPACE stays at SPACE). Then I went to Trinidad for the month of July to teach and facilitate the <a href="http://www.irnweb.org/regions/caribbean/" target="_blank">Caribbean IRN</a>'s short course on "Critical Sexuality Studies" with my co-chair Rosamond King - in collaboration with the Institute for Gender and Development at UWI and CAISO. I have been to Trinidad before (in 2007 for a conference), and so another return for me... to a place of some of my ancestors and a place that truly feels like home. And so there is so much to share about this... and so that will unfold in future writings... But for now a recap of what I did while there - the work - the teaching, the public events, and more.... See my article on ARC Magazine's blog:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/08/advancing-perspectives-on-caribbean-sexualities/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">"Advancing Perspectives on Caribbean Sexualities."</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I am so proud of this work and what we were able to do in such a short amount of time. We brought together different kinds of people to grapple with and engage in discourse about sexuality and sexualities. We did something that I think is vital for radical progressive work - holding and creating spaces that trouble/vex the boundaries and bridge/connect higher education, knowledge production sites, community activism, politics, and art making.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">epic journeys 2013!!! so nourished and so blessed!!! </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on this all hallow's eve, samhain, dia de los muertos... time of honoring our ancestors and remembering & celebrating those who have passed... I do all that I do because of those who came before... guided by my ancestors...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the work continues, in the struggle... loving and living...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">more fyah soon,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angelique</span>Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-66034641642815035942013-09-29T17:19:00.002-04:002013-09-29T22:32:13.115-04:00"Grace of Wonder"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I saw Grace Jones in concert last October for the first time, and I was in awe and wonder of her being, and so I thought a lot about my mother and her being... My mother's middle name is Grace and she was a performer too - she danced in a Cabaret show on Paradise Island in the Bahamas in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But things didn't work out so well for my mother in those spaces and in her life for all kinds of reasons... and so that's what came out in this poem - imagining what kind of inspiration Grace Jones might have been for my mother. There were all these moments during the concert that made me think about this - especially as Grace Jones' son was on the stage playing in her band, and I wondered what it must be like to be her kid... this made me think of these relationships between sexy empowered mothers and their children even more - and their similarities as fierce and beautiful... misunderstood women... in the context of all the controls over Black women's bodies - also thinking about their differences - Grace Jones as a dark skinned Black women and my mother as a light skinned Black woman... yet I see something similar in the performance and defiance of their bodies in a time/space we continue to grapple with in the context of our search for sexual freedom.</span></i></div>
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-35796129379242607502013-07-17T14:00:00.001-04:002013-12-04T16:34:53.400-05:00New York Launch & Reading - Saltwater Healing - Video & MoreHere is a video recording of the New York reading and launch of my art and poetry collection <i>Saltwater Healing - A Myth Memoir and Poems</i> (<a href="http://www.poincianapaperpress.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Poinciana Paper Press</a>, 2013) at Bluestockings Bookstore on 2 May 2013. Thanks so much to Beryl Edgecombe who filmed the event for her TV show <a href="http://www.mnn.org/show-info/23960/dem-bahamians" target="_blank">"Dem Bahamians" on Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN)</a>! This aired in June on the show - and is available on youtube as well. I've been so swamped with traveling and work that I haven't had time yet to write a reflection about this evening - and so finally I am sitting still for a moment to say thanks and share.<br />
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This is such a beautiful reminder of a really special evening shared with my New York community! Sharing on my blog gives me an opportunity to give thanks again to everyone who came and made this all possible. I was humbled and blessed by your support! Giving special thanks to my dearest friends and loved ones (in no particular order) who came: <i>Beatrice, Al, Chaney, Ganessa, Tei, Miyo, Adaku, Samara, Rosamond, Jamie, Shauntee, Jon, Ari, and (last but not least) one of my best friends Eduardo who came from South Florida for the event</i>. And all those who were there with me in spirit. And giving extra special thanks to my fellow poets for sharing their powerful words at the event. I was honored to share the stage with my writing sistren <i>Charan P Morris </i>(poet and educator) and <i>Gabrielle Civil </i>(performance artist and poet). They brought their fyah and fierceness! Thank you all for bearing witness to Saltwater Healing! I felt then and continue to feel incredibly loved. Thanks to Sonia Farmer - editor/founder of Poinciana Paper Press - who joined us as well to talk about the press and to introduce the book. (Thanks so much Sonia for making time during your New York trip to be a part of this beautiful evening.) Thanks to Jessica Lynne of Zora Magazine - who hosted the evening and also helped plan the event. Jessica took my Black women writers course at NYU, which I taught while on a postdoctoral fellowship in 2009. She reached out to me after hearing about my book being published earlier this year - and she asked to help organize the NY reading. The stars aligned and we made it happen! (Thanks Jessica - you are amazing!) Finally thanks to Bluestockings for hosting us in their fabulous space!<br />
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*** My summer is in full swing - currently in Trinidad teaching and facilitating a short course on "Critical Sexuality Studies - Theory & Practice" with the Caribbean IRN and Institute of Gender and Development at University of the West Indies. Check out my article in ARC Magazine discussing the course and related events titled - <a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/07/exploring-caribbean-sexualities/" target="_blank">"Exploring Caribbean Sexualities"</a>. I am here in Trinidad and Tobago for the month of July - teaching, writing, facilitating, and sharing. More updates on my epic journeys soon! Until then, peace, love & conscious wibes. ***Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-50134386737396964732013-06-18T16:44:00.002-04:002013-12-04T16:42:43.541-05:00Epic Journeys, Part One<h2>
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been battling against, the regime of "truth" which has structured our
"consciousness," is functioning against our best interests. It is
negating ourselves; and so there's this constant struggle. You see, it's not
just an intellectual struggle. You could call it a psychointellectual
struggle. Then you could understand why in the '60s it wasn't just a call for
Black Studies; it was a call for Black Aesthetics, it was a call for Black
Art(s), it was a call for Black Power. It was an understanding that, as Lewis
Gordon has been the first to keep insisting, we live in an anti-Black world --
a systemically anti-Black world; and, therefore, whites are not [simply]
"racists."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They too live in
the same world in which we live. The truth that structures their minds,
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I’m finally
sitting down to share reflections on my blog <i>consciousvibration</i> of my epic journeys to Ghana in May and Grenada
in June, and then I read a beautiful tribute and sad reminder of the
anniversary of <a href="http://walterrodneyfoundation.org/about_walter_rodney" target="_blank">Walter Rodney</a>’s assassination in my facebook newsfeed. I had
just gotten back from Grenada a couple days before, and I was in recovery mode
from intense conferencing and back to back (blessed) travels across continents
and oceans. I was thinking about the whirlwind of movement, exchange, and
beautiful experiences – and wanting to write down every important moment But my body had other plans for me – a week
of rest and healing. So I finally get to this piece of writing and the words of
Walter Rodney stay with me until this piece of writing becomes me reflecting on the hows and
whys of my travels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Both of these trips
were for conferences funded through my work in the academy yet fueled and
reflective of my work outside of it (my creative and community work – my
art/poetry/organizing). And so when I read this quote by Walter Rodney
above<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(on the anniversary of his death
on 13 June), it resonated deeply with me as I continue to struggle with my
vexing relationship to the academic world – never feeling like I really belong.
It also reminded me that if I am to be in it, then I must stay true to who I am
in the world: staying in the struggle for freedom and liberation, social and
environmental justice, fighting for sexual, gender, class, and racial equality,
creating space for resistance and desire, AND using my voice, my art, my
teaching, my writing -- as feminist, womanist, anti-imperial, anti-racist,
class conscious, queer affirming, loving Blackness, and radical transgressive
movement. Being a revolutionary for me means all these things and more… being
in the tradition of women of color writers and feminists and all of our
ancestors who resisted before/when our revolutions were thought
impossible/unthinkable. Revolution means struggle, but it also means healing
and radical self-care and love. It also means taking incredible risks and being
a warrior – at times alone and afraid but rooted and guided by spirit and the
earth…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I believe that
I am (and I aspire to be) as Rodney suggests – a revolutionary intellectual –
in radical process. I agree with him completely – it is the ONLY reason (for
me) to remain in the academy. I have also reflected on <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/sylvia-wynter" target="_blank">Sylvia Wynter’s</a>
reasoning and critique about Western systems of knowledge and how we must
constantly do battle with our own consciousness (as Black people particularly
but also as people of color and marginalized peoples generally) because
“academia is a process of socialization” – i.e. educational systems as they
exist function to “reproduce the order of society” (see her brilliant interview
in <a href="http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/proudflesh/issue/view/18" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ProudFlesh</i>, Issue 4 2006</a>).
Therefore, Wynter argues that we must do battle against “Truth” and engage in a
psycho-intellectual struggle. So as we learn and teach in these institutions,
we are implicated in an elitist and controlling, western dominated systems of
knowledge. But teaching and learning in such institutions forged my
intellectual growth and social mobility, even though I know these places were
never meant for me/us and that they will never accept me/us fully – somehow I
have had to be okay with that – and take what I need and continue to forge my
path – and use its resources to further my community and creative work. And
while I am in them – do battle with “the truth” – and turn it inside out and
make my teaching and writing part of the necessary unsilencing and challenging
of these very systems of knowledge. (Let me clear - I know this ain't easy work and I'm not entirely sure if I can make a difference but I push forward - aware of the hypocrisies,
the contradictions, and the corporate takeover of universities.) I remain
critically engaged (in battle perhaps) with these institutions and the academic
world – existing both inside and outside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But for today, I find
much comfort in Rodney’s words – and hold them close as I make sense of my
years and discomfort in the academy. I think about my travels since I started
my career in academia. I think about the mobility and access to places and
people I may never have had if I didn’t get my academic hustle on and funding
to present at dozens of conferences around the world – from Brazil to France,
all over the U.S., and across the Caribbean – my homespaces (places I have come
to know and love because of opportunities afforded me through the academic
world). And I remember me as a little girl who dared to dream that I could be
something other than poor and troubled, and that maybe one day I would leave
Nassau and travel. And I remember when I found out that there was a thing
called University – and I wanted to go – even when I dropped out of high school.
I dreamed, worked hard, and took advantage of opportunities as they came my way
– knowing that they came with a price and that some of these had something to
do with my light skin, mixed race’ness and silence about race and class, while
others came when I stopped being silent. (The paradox of difference. The
paradox of being both invisible and hypervisible. The dilemmas of so-called
multiculturalism and post-racial colorblind belief systems / bullshit – even
when evidence to the contrary proves otherwise.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so I live in this paradox and embrace all
the in-betweens and contradictions – and do what I can to create the spaces
inside and outside where we can be critically engaged in resistance/revolution
and re-build our consciousness - as Wynter says we must.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so I am grateful
and blessed to have these experiences, as they have made me even more committed
to community organizing, creativity, and praxis. Since the beginning of my
journey in the academy, I have insisted on making my commitment to community
work and my creative self a priority. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is fitting then
that my most recent journeys reflect a combination of my/selves as writer/poet/artist/teacher/scholar/activist
– and that my invitation to share at the Yari Yari Ntoaso conference in Accra, Ghana
was rooted in my creative writing and my grassroots organizing work in Haiti.
And my work with the Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) and its annual
conference has been grounded in regional organizing and support of Caribbean
sexual minority organizations, as well as creating space for Caribbean
Sexuality Studies and LGBT-identified scholars, artist, activists and allies
within CSA and across the region. (</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">More
reflections and photos of epic journeys soon come - in my next post.</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sitting with the
words and works of Walter Rodney and Sylvia Wynter over the past few days as I
wrote this piece has given me a renewed sense of place and perspective on what
I am doing in the academy and what I will continue to do in spite of and
because of my discomfort and un-belonging. All I can do is hold onto the
promise and work of Revolution and stay in the struggle. There is so much going
on right now across the world, its hard to make sense of it all and figure out
where to put one’s energy – in this time of planetary shifts, environmental and
economic catastrophes with masses of people rising up against austerity
measures and government/corporate control, continued wars and occupations and
too much bloodshed and sexual assault in the face of U.S. imperialism,
prisoners at Guantanamo on hunger strike, attacks on LGBTQ people and rights,
the alarming numbers of sexual abuse and domestic violence, the new bounty on Assata… and too much more… my
heart wants to break with all this sadness, pain, and destruction… but instead I mend her up with these dreams
and hopes of revolution… and keep working. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Thank you Sylvia Wynter for your insights, your brilliance, and the depth of your intellectual battles. Thank you for continuing to keep us on our intellectual rigor to overstand and embrace your mighty words and theories. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Rest strong in the struggle Walter Rodney. Thank you for your work, your wisdom, your insistence on revolution. Thank you for keeping us honest and critical.</i></span></div>
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Angeliquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02515148574850400261noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25999963.post-16600562495892012572013-04-26T16:22:00.001-04:002013-04-26T16:23:53.302-04:00The Spring Event - Twilight Reasoning with Carole Boyce Davies<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the opportunity to organize a <a href="http://www.susqu.edu/academics/46477.asp" target="_blank">major lecture at Susquehanna University</a> where I teach in the Department of English and Creative Writing. And I was really pleased to invite Carole Boyce Davies to the campus. Since I teach courses on Black women writers and Caribbean and African Diaspora Literatures and Cultures, among others, I wanted to have a scholar who was prominent in these fields and who would also be accessible to the students. I teach Boyce Davies' work in most of my literature courses, and so I thought she would be perfect - and she was! The event was held earlier this month on April 4th - and I had the pleasure to introduce her to the audience, which included over 100 students and faculty! I shared not only her impressive list of accomplishments and major contributions to several fields of study, but I also shared how I first met Carole. Here is part of my introduction: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dr. Carole Boyce Davies</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is professor of Africana Studies and English at Cornell University. Her major works include the prize-winning</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Left of Karl Marx. The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations of the Subject</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her most recent book is an edition of the writings of</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Claudia Jones</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">titled</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beyond Containment: Autobiography, Essays, Poetry</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Her current project is a series of personal reflections, and academic essays titled</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caribbean Spaces. Escapes from Twilight Zones</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> dealing with the issue of transnational Caribbean/American black identity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Her work examining the political life, writing, activism, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915-1964), who was a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist, uncovers one of the most important thinkers, activists, and organizers in African diaspora history. Boyce Davies has unearthed the work and struggles of this major figure, who might have remained in the shadows of history – buried to the left of Karl Marx in London’s Highgate Cemetery. But as Carole Boyce Davies argues – this location is fitting considering the ways that Claudia Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to include gender and race in her political critique and activism. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had the great privilege to meet Dr. Boyce Davies as a graduate student in 2006 at the ACWWS (Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars) conference in South Florida. I had already read her brilliant work </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Black Women Writing and Identity</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, which became not only a primary source of theoretical engagement for my dissertation and now book project, but also an affirmation of my own experience as a migrant Black mixed-race woman writer and feminist scholar. Her theoretical engagement with Black women writers I had read and studied and continue to read and study (and teach) made me a more careful and astute scholar and writer. And so I was (and still am) by all accounts a huge fan. She was the main organizer of this conference and as a result very busy – and so I never expected to meet her or even have a conversation. Much to surprise, not only did I get to meet her, she attended my panel and later asked me to submit my paper for review in an anthology (which was accepted and published in the collection </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">). This was a major honor to be asked by a leading person in the field of Caribbean Studies to submit a piece of work. And what was even more exciting and inspiring for me as a graduate student was watching and learning from such a prominent scholar and writer who is so incredibly supportive of emerging scholars/writers. Since then, we have stayed in touch, met up at conferences, exchanged ideas, and reasoned about Caribbean politics and culture, literature, music, and art. She continues to be a mentor and an inspiration for me and many others. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carole's lecture, titled "Caribbean Diasporic Circulations: Poetics and Politics,"<span style="font-size: small;"> addressed the various ways that </span><span style="font-size: small;">Caribbean cultures have produced and been the product of a variety of migrations, political contributions and engagements. She shared insights into the ways that Caribbean cultures have influenced diaspora and movements across the world. She discussed literature, music, art and politics and offered intriguing insights into the poetics and politics of this dynamic engagement with the Caribbean at the center. The audience was captivated with her examples of how Caribbean cultural productions - art, music, pop culture, and literature - influence and reverberate around the globe. From the Japanese woman who won the Jamaica dancehall queen 2006 title, the pop culture sensations Rihanna and Nicky Minaj, the iconic place of Bob Marley, political figures Malcolm X and Claudia Jones, the powerful poetry of Dionne Brand and Kamau Brathwaite, to the recent superbowl VW add, Carole's analysis of Caribbean diasporic circulations were poignant and resonated with contemporary points of reference for a wide audience. She moved through important arguments about the place of Caribbean history and culture as a critical center for conversations and theorizing about diaspora. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The entire visit was a blessing for me - more reminders of how essential it is to have strong mentorships and friendships with fellow women of color in the academy in similar fields of study. She has offered me guidance over the years that continues to be invaluable for my career and well being. I appreciate her and am grateful to include her in my circle of comrades. It was a delight to share with each other about current projects. And we talked about the academy and small town USA places where some Caribbean people end up migrating and moving to - places she so powerfully calls "twilight zones" in her latest collection of essays. As she described her use of this metaphor to me, it all made sense - as we reasoned about how to stay healthy, well, and productive in these spaces that may be challenging and counter intuitive to health and well being. I am holding our reasonings close to my spirit as I wrap up another semester in a twilight zone - and meditate upon wellness and focus on productivity. With my scholarly book deadline around the corner, end of semester grading, and my summer travels on the horizon, I know that I must get it all done and get it done well. Thank you Carole for your inspiring wisdom!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This winter was a rough one for my island blood - hence, I've been in hibernation mode. Although this is my fourth winter, I still ain't use to the cold... and so winters are hard for me still. And each year brings another set of challenges as the planet responds to / is deeply affected by climate change and the weather gets stranger and more severe. We are all affected yet experience it in different ways. But the reality is sinking in for many of us around the world - we in trouble. Seriously... we are at a critical juncture and finally - since Superstorm Sandy, the U.S. mass media is paying attention. I went to the <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/18/tens_of_thousands_rally_to_stop" target="_blank">climate change march protesting the Keystone pipeline on 17th February</a> in Washington, D.C. - ironically on the coldest day ever - and in spite of the frigid weather - thousands of people marched and carried signs and participated in this public outcry calling for change - to stop the pipeline, to cut emissions, to create a carbon tax, support cleaner and greener alternative energies, etc. While I generally feel that "the march" is no longer the most effective way to create change, what I do find valuable is the sense of solidarity that can be built during such a protest. There is something magical that happens when people come together united and in solidarity around issues that are a common or shared experience and/or concern. I believe in that power and possibility. I believe it helps us to feel more united and less alone in the struggle. But I also believe the real work happens before and after the protest. </span><br />
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Some thoughts and reflections during the snow and stormy madness of these winter months. I've also been hard at work on my scholarly book <i>Resisting Paradise</i> - revising, re-working, and editing. And then there's teaching - the day to day of prep work, reading, grading, more grading. Through all this, climate change and what are we doing and must do differently weigh heavily on my spirit. And so today - Earthday - is just another reminder, but also a moment to reflect and pour so much love and light into the earth - and use these moments to take action. We each have a part to play in how we can help save this/our planet. I've spent many years doing different kinds of organizing work, but most of all, I make great efforts to live in the most ethical and sustainable ways as I can. </span><br />
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I've spent the past two years developing a social and environmental justice curriculum for high school and college courses based on <a href="http://www.hurricaneseasontour.com/live/" target="_blank">Hurricane Season</a> with a team of educators and activists. I created and taught the college course at Susquehanna University for the past three semesters - and its been a journey! There have been challenges and successes as I introduce first year college students to issues like state violence, mass incarceration, gender-based violence, the water crisis, climate change, environmental injustice, disaster capitalism, and displacement through the lens of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and the earthquake in Haiti. After teaching over 120 students this curriculum, I have to say that regardless of the difficulties they have in getting some of the material, most of them leave the course understanding the environmental crisis we are in and how this affects all of us. My main goal in this course is to help them to think more critically about the world, to see the relationship between social and environmental issues, and to get them to be engaged in learning, reading, and writing about these issues in critical and solution oriented ways. Teaching and preparing for these classes keep me in up to date and in constant search for new ideas and information. </span><br />
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And this year's winter hibernation kept me focused. Now I am coming up for air and spring time, ready for summer heat, and wanting to share more on <i>conscious vibration</i> about what I've been up to these past months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Soon come - full report of my inspiring time with the brilliant Carole Boyce Davies, who has been an important mentor to me since I was a graduate student. I asked her to do a lecture at the university where I work - and the event was amazing!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Saltwater Healing – A Myth Memoir and
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">By Angelique V. Nixon</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>Launched at Doongalik
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><b>3 February 2013 || Nassau, The Bahamas</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">My first solo book collection
of art and poetry is here - <i>Saltwater
Healing</i> - published by Poinciana Paper Press! I am thrilled and blessed to
share my work in this way – through a beautiful letterpress cover, hand bound,
limited edition book – with a small independent Caribbean press. The collection includes a digital full color reproduction of my literary artwork
and <u>myth memoir “Saltwater Healing”</u> (18 wooden panels originally featured as an
installation in Transforming Spaces 2012 FIBRE at The Hub in Nassau) and <u>11 of my poems</u>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The books are $30 each and
available through Poinciana Paper Press and at Doongalik Studios in Nassau.
Copies will also be available soon at other local bookstores and art galleries.
I also have copies. Feel free to email me at <a href="mailto:angeliquevnixon@gmail.com">angeliquevnixon@gmail.com</a> for more
information. You can also contact the press directly - please visit <a href="http://www.poincianapaperpress.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">PoincianaPaper Press</a> or email Sonia Farmer at <a href="mailto:sonia@poincianapaperpress.com">sonia@poincianapaperpress.com</a>. I
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">We had a really successful launch on Sunday and sold quite a few books! </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">I want to express my deep
gratitude for such a successful and powerful event on Sunday – giving thanks to
everyone who came to support, those who bought books, and those who were there
in spirit. And I want to thank each and every person who made the
launch possible, especially:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sonia Farmer,
editor and founder of Poinciana Paper Press, for believing in this project and working
tirelessly to make it happen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Pamela and
Orchid Burnside for hosting the event at Doongalik Studios<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for her most brilliant introduction of me and my work<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tsavoussis, Charmaine Gibson, and Kat Jackson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for documenting the event and for collaborating with Sonia on the cover design
and printing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tina Johnson, Tania Nixon, and Vanessa Eneas for delicious refreshments at the
launch and Mendoza Imports for pink champagne!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.25in;">Also many thanks to <b><a href="http://www.thenassauguardian.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36861:poinciana-paper-press-launches-saltwater-healing&catid=38:arts-a-culture&Itemid=59" target="_blank">The Nassau Guardian</a>, <a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/01/poinciana-paper-press-launches-saltwater-healing/" target="_blank">ARC Magazine</a>, <a href="http://mad.ly/351c73" target="_blank">Bahamas Arts & Culture Newsletter</a>, <a href="http://repeatingislands.com/2013/02/06/new-book-angelique-v-nixons-saltwater-healing/" target="_blank">Repeating Islands</a>, and <a href="http://www.tribune242.com/news/2013/feb/06/art-and-poetry-collide-in-saltwater-healing/?lifestyle" target="_blank">The Tribune</a> </b>for featuring the launch and promoting my book, as well as <b><u>ArtOvation with TaDa</u></b> on Star 106.5FM for having me on her show to talk about my book!</span></h3>
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<i>Here are a few photos of the book making and binding process. For more photos and details into the book making process, check out this link for <a href="http://www.poincianapaperpress.blogspot.com/2013/02/saltwater-healing-official-book-launch.html" target="_blank">Sonia Farmer's post on Poinciana Paper Press's blog</a>. And also check out <a href="http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/02/saltwater-healing-official-book-launch-and-a-look-behind-the-scenes/" target="_blank">ARC Magazine's lovely re-mix of Sonia's piece</a>. Thanks Holly!</i><i><b><br /></b></i></h4>
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<i><b>I arrived just in time on Friday afternoon to work on the prep for binding (poking holes) and to install the artwork at Doongalik Studios.</b></i></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">The official launch day
was beautiful, and I felt incredibly lifted by all the positive energy beaming
from the crowd of 50 or so people who came together for this celebration –
supporting not only my work but also Poinciana Paper
Press! I had the great opportunity to reimagine the display of my pieces while I worked with Pam Burnside to install the panels in the gallery space on Friday before the launch. The remix turned out to be a great new way of experiencing the Saltwater
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Many people I knew in the crowd, some of my dearest loved ones and
family, others with common interests and circles, and some I met for the first
time. Sitting in this gorgeous, sun-filled room at Doongalik, I felt so honored
as we started the event and Sonia Farmer welcomed us and brought up Marion
Bethel, who introduced me. I am still in awe of Marion’s brilliant reflection
and introduction! I had to hold back the tears as I listened intently to her powerful
description of my work. I am overjoyed that she was able to be a
part of this special day. (<i>Thank you
Marion!</i>) After Marion’s stirring introduction, I gave a reading of a few
select pieces from the book – started with the myth memoir and wrapped up with
a few poems. I chose pieces that I thought would reflect the book as a whole
but not give to much away – wanting to encourage folks to buy the book! I also
made some choices based on audience, but at the same time, wanting to stay true
to my work, which is all about breaking silences. I took some risks and shared poems that are hard for me - all the messiness we suppress too often - domestic violence, disease, and poverty. I wanted to read these poems because of these silences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">However, I feel in
retrospect that I was too silent about certain things – like stating clearly why
I identify as Black - as a mixed race woman - and why my late maternal grandmother
<i>Mabel Sistella Charles</i> is so central to my story and the collection (hence why
the book is dedicated to her). I believe all these things are
very clear in the book (and Marion affirmed these points in her introduction as
well), but I didn’t make it very clear during my reading. Perhaps I did this because I have voiced this in public at home in various settings from radio shows and lectures to readings and newspaper articles. Or perhaps I wanted to leave it up to the reader/audience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I didn’t read certain
pieces where these issues come up in my poetry and myth memoir. Mostly because
I didn’t want to upset my paternal grandmother – Viola Nixon – who came to my
event and who was also a big part of my life growing up. Since the "Gramma" in my book is not her, I kept censoring myself and said less than I had planned. Instead of facing up
to and explaining my choices, I was silent once again – even as my
creative work literally and figuratively calls for us to be “silent no more.” I could have explained more, and after the event, I started to feel like I missed this important opportunity to speak up and out. But then I realized I'm comfortable in my skin and how I identify - so much so that
I no longer feel the need to explain this, even to people who don’t
know me or my story. I am so rooted in my self, my identity, and my connection
to ancestors and spirit that I no longer have to say it quite so much.<i> It is who I
am.</i> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Nevertheless, I’ve been agonizing
over my reading and what I didn’t say or what I left out. I am reminded that there are spaces and places I still must tell and in this case re-tell again and again. I feel that I’m
working through other silences, another part of my story. Perhaps my next project... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">To do that, I have to
admit a few things and release them – like discomfort with my paternal family, and that I don't want to talk about my
paternal family and those particular dynamics that also gave rise to me. I have touched upon them in my work here and there, but for the most part I avoid it. These dynamics are as equally
complex as my maternal side, and in some ways even more so - with Chinese mixed
race whiteness, denial of Blackness, outside children, and troubling stories of
domestic violence and sexual trauma – stories I haven’t fully started writing
about yet. I have made the deliberate and strategic choice to focus on my
maternal line in much of my work because of </span><i style="font-family: Georgia;">Spirit
and Ancestors who speak to me and through me</i><span style="font-family: Georgia;">. My maternal side forged in me
a sense of survival (through genetic memory and spirit calling) that has made me the person I am today. But my paternal
side made me too – and at some point, I believe I will be ready to share this
truth. For now though, it feels too hard. But I am closer to telling that story. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">And so I will say here what I wanted to say on Sunday - which is acknowledge both my maternal and paternal grandmothers as a vital part of my life, but that this particular project is about the one who is in the spirit world - the one who has been my creative muse for many years - <i>Mabel Sistella Charles</i>. <i>And so it's her story because her story creates me - this drives my poetic voice.</i> And it's her story because there are so few spaces to tell her story (as a Black Bahamian woman, single mother, domestic worker, raised in Inagua and through struggle) that I feel it's my responsibility to speak it loud. Her passing when I was so young (at 18) has affected more than I can ever explain (and then loosing my mother just a year after that at 19). These moments have marked me forever. And somehow in spirit we remain close and in communication. I know that I have to tell my gramma's story and explain this - even when it's the most painful and uncomfortable. More lessons - grateful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I am releasing all the stuff I didn't say - letting it go and saying it here - knowing that there will be more time, more readings and events. </span><i style="font-family: Georgia;">And so it is - Saltwater Healing</i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> is born! It is my
story of healing and difficult childhood memories told through the Bahamian
land/seascape. It is a collection of poetry and art that speaks troubled herstories and affirms the imagination as our place for healing and recreation/affirmation of self. It took me years to get here to tell this story – and for
that I am so thankful for all who bear witness and can hear me – even
when its hard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I g<i>ive thanks</i> to all my
friends, loved ones, and mentors who have been witness to my poetry and writing
– especially Marion Bethel and Asha Rahming (my sheroes), my chosen family
(sisters Vanessa Eneas, Bianca Zaiem, and Jheaneale Bahadosingh), my Florida family (Eduardo, Susi, Carlos, Alexia), my cousin
Nabila Darville, my stepmother Lynn Darville, and my closest friends and comrades in the struggle, my community! – <i>you know
who you are</i> – so grateful and blessed to have
each of you in my life! Thank you for always believing in me and supporting me
through this journey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My sisters - Vanessa and Jheaneale</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dearest friends Erin and Tina and my cousin Nabila</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Signing books! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with family - my cousin Nabila, <br />
grandmother Viola, and aunt Kay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Tania - my aunt, my sister!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My niece Penelope :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family - Tania, Jheaneale, Vanessa</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Refreshments and Mingle time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Margot, Stan, Orchid</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jay, Jan, Ali</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tina, Orchid, Pam</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Stan and Alana</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another shot of Mingle Time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">with Orchid and Kareem</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>We are deep into the new year already... but since this is my first post of 2013 - happy new year greetings! Wishing everyone abundance, blessings, and so much love!!! </i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I brought in the new year at home and since getting back state side, I continue mapping out what I want to do and bring to fruition this year. So many seeds I've planted last year are coming to life and bearing fruit this year - especially my writing! And so I am thrilled to give all the details for my first solo book (a collection of my poetry and reproduction of my literary art work, myth memoir - Saltwater Healing) that is being published with Poinciana Paper Press - and the launch is this week Sunday! I am going home for the launch and also for the book binding this weekend. </i></div>
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My book - "Saltwater Healing" will be a hand-bound, letterpress printed cover, limited-edition of 100 copies, and printed in full color. Thanks to the hard work of Sonia Farmer, editor and founder of the small independent press - Poinciana Paper Press, the book will be beautiful and a piece of art! Also, many thanks to both Sonia and Margot Bethel for collaborating and designing the cover. I feel incredibly blessed to be able to share my creative work and my story in this way. And I give thanks to this space of conscious vibration where I have shared so much of my work and my self over the years. </i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">My vision for this work grew out of the ways I engage with home as a Black mixed-race queer Bahamian woman living abroad. It grew out of troubled women's stories (herstories) too often left out of our "history" books. It grew out of messiness—the stuff we don't often speak about--poverty, domestic violence, drug abuse, disease, mental health, sexual trauma, sexuality, race and color, class and privilege, and environmental crisis. It grew out of my desire to speak and share hard stories through a visual medium, using a story-telling poetic form and collage of materials and found objects. And it grew out of my visits home over the years to reconnect with homespace, and this not only involved spending time with my loved ones, but also going to the sea, laying in sand, breathing in salty air, and soaking in the ocean’s healing embrace. It grew out of all the stories my grandmother told me as a young child - many which centered on the healing powers of our land and seascape. It grew out of me depending on my visits for rejuvenation, but also experiencing the difficult memories of my childhood. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>And for a sneak peek at Saltwater Healing and the process, check out photos on <a href="http://poincianapaperpress.blogspot.com/2013/01/sneak-peek-saltwater-healing.html" target="_blank">Poinciana Paper Press here</a>!</i></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Poinciana Paper Press launches “Saltwater Healing”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Published in <i>The Nassau Guardian</i>, Arts and Culture Section, 26 January 2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sonia Farmer, Poinciana Paper Press </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">How do we tell the stories that are
too painful to recall? In what language can we bring these hidden realities,
often loaded with shame, to light and let the retelling hold witness to and
ultimately heal our stories?</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In “Saltwater Healing,” the latest
book being launched next month by local independent fine press, Poinciana Paper
Press, Bahamian poet Angelique V. Nixon finds the path to healing and
empowerment lies in both language and image.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In eighteen snapshots, she collages
photographs, drawings, and actual pieces from the Bahamian landscape—silk
cotton tree cotton, woman’s tongue pods, sand and shells, dried leaves and
seeds—and uses them alongside handwritten poetry to explore and understand
difficult stories through the lens of the natural world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Along with a selection of her own
poems, the book finds beauty and strength in even the darkest of places—like
letting the ocean’s tide wash your sorrow out to sea, “Saltwater Healing” moves
the reader through to a refreshing and more inspired place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0.5in;">“Through my collection, I hope
readers feel inspired to tell their own stories in whatever ways that make
sense to them. And I hope to encourage readers to share and speak their truth,”
she says. “I am working in the tradition of Black women writers who insist upon
our need to create our own stories out of what we know and what we d</span><span style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0.5in;">on't know
-- because so much of our histories/herstories are unknown.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Inspired by Audre Lorde’s </span><i style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Zami</i><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">, Angelique calls the work a “myth
memoir” for its seamless combination of stories, experiences, memories, dreams
and mystical elements in the narrative of poetry in the artwork, ultimately working
to defy literary boundaries and create new ways of telling stories.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“I think it’s important for
artists to cross and play with boundaries,” she says. “Poetry and writing
generally help us to create images in our minds, and so I wanted to push myself
as a word artist further into the visual realm.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Language is as fluid as other
mediums of art, yet it is so often fixed in space,” she adds. “I love word art,
mixed media, collage, recycled art, and photography. And so I found myself
using a variety of objects to compliment and complicate my words and the
stories I wanted to share.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Saltwater Healing” happened
organically though a workshop and came to completion as she created an
installation for last year’s Transforming Spaces art tour under the theme of
“Fibre”. The powerful piece resisted any definitive literary genre, making it a
perfect fit for the local independent press, Poinciana Paper Press.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“It's really important for my book to be published
by this press because I believe in small independent publishing, and I want to
support local businesses as much as I can in our economy,” says Nixon. “Also
for me, its an honor to be published, recognized, and supported by a local
Bahamian press because my work is about home - and no matter how long I have
lived away - The Bahamas is always my home.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Specializing making Caribbean
stories into limited-edition and hand-made works of art, Poinciana Paper Press
recognizes that the book form is an active part of the reading experience.
Founded in 2007 by Sonia Farmer, the press was a nomad entity for several years
while she completed her training in book-binding, printmaking, papermaking and
letterpress printing abroad in New York City and London, the U.K. In 2012,
Poinciana Paper Press finally gained a home in Nassau and is presently growing
into a center for book arts, letterpress and papermaking—the first of its kind
in the Caribbean.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Angelique V. Nixon</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
is a writer, scholar, teacher, community worker, and poet born and raised in
The Bahamas. She earned her Ph.D. in English specializing in Caribbean
literature and culture at the University of Florida in 2008. Currently, she is
a professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Susquehanna
University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">“Saltwater Healing” is hand bound
with a letterpress-printed cover in a limited edition of one hundred copies,
which will be available for purchase at the launch on </span><b style="text-indent: 0.5in;">February 3<sup>rd</sup>, 3 p.m. at Doongalik Studios on Village Road</b><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">.
Angelique will read from her collection and guests will be able to see the
original panels of “Saltwater Healing” on display in the gallery space.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">For more about Poinciana Paper
Press, visit </span><a href="http://www.poincianapaperpress.blogspot.com/" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">www.poincianapaperpress.blogspot.com</a><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I hope to also have a launch in New York sometime this Spring - so for all my NY peeps, look out for details soon! And also for my friends/family outside of Nassau, let me know if you want your very own copy of "Saltwater Healing" - and I can make arrangements with you! </i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Email me at angeliquevnixon@gmail.com for more info!</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>with peace, light & conscious wibes dem,</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Angelique </i></span></b><br />
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