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Rashida James-Saadiya 11/2/26 Rashida James-Saadiya 11/2/26

The Land Remembers Differently

empire understands

how to occupy land.

Not how to care for it.

Jaryd Niles-Morris 11/2/26 Jaryd Niles-Morris 11/2/26

Mmuo Rites and Rituals

Throughout the years, I have seen how colonial and imperial ideas about the Human have influenced how we see the world and have left Black women at the bottom of the social ladder, not valued or respected nearly enough as a group.

Dylan Parsons 11/1/26 Dylan Parsons 11/1/26

Sincerely, / Yaniuska, / Escuela Solidaridad con Panama

I’m sorry you have to pray for cloudy days.

ariel c.c. ward 10/29/26 ariel c.c. ward 10/29/26

writing lines

i woke one morning/a machete in my hand…

Jermain Ostiana 10/28/26 Jermain Ostiana 10/28/26

Barbuda Brimstone Babies

Babylon bombs kill us in our boats, starving Cubans, occupying Haiti, kidnapping a Venezuelan president and his wife.

Suhayla Hepburn 10/24/26 Suhayla Hepburn 10/24/26

Studies from Flamingoes on Parade

Each of the collage compositions is based on the flamingo as a symbol of national and ecological vulnerability that Caribbean nation states face due to imperial pressures from the United States.

Fabienne Josaphat 10/23/26 Fabienne Josaphat 10/23/26

Those Who Come in Peace

The hope was this was not what they feared it was, that it was just a bout of indigestion, something he ate in the lalo leaves the night before, the grease it cooked in having sat too long in the plastic jugs in the Haitian heat.

Nyala Thompson Grunwald 10/21/26 Nyala Thompson Grunwald 10/21/26

“Now, Listen Good, Yuh Hear?”

Doux-Doux remembered that lesson, with Granny and Abeni, discussing how diaspora mek Caribbean and Caribbean mek diaspora.

Tonya Liburd 10/21/26 Tonya Liburd 10/21/26

Cobalt Blues

To breathe, blues/African bodies, children’s bodies, holding ancient blood…

Immaculata Casimero 10/9/26 Immaculata Casimero 10/9/26

Indigenous Caribbean Feminisms Against Imperialism

Testimonies fom the Wapichan Wiizi Women’s Movement in Guyana.

Don Edward Walicek 10/9/26 Don Edward Walicek 10/9/26

Eyes on Al-Shifa

The voice in the video said he’d seen/too much: bombs in emergency care/soldiers who would shoot him/in front of his patients.

Angelique V. Nixon 10/1/26 Angelique V. Nixon 10/1/26

Bound in Rage and Terror

we in the Caribbean know these words/occupation, colonialism, genocide/we know these atrocities, bound in rage & terror.

Laura Alhach 10/1/26 Laura Alhach 10/1/26

Responding from the Hills

Caribbean Cinema Made by Women Against Imperial Forgetting.

Sherese Francis 10/1/26 Sherese Francis 10/1/26

Saint Solitude (La Marronne)

The year is 1802. The Battle of Matouba. Matouba, known for its miraculous springs, surges into a place of resistance.

Amílcar Peter Sanatan 10/1/26 Amílcar Peter Sanatan 10/1/26

Beverley Manley and Jamaica

When last you shot white rum

As the Party motion inches along, keeping pace

with comrade sisters?

Monsune aka Monique Gibson 10/1/26 Monsune aka Monique Gibson 10/1/26

Fighting Ooman

Gyal learn how fi bite di bullet man wrought./Passive an’ active resistance, mi neva figet history lessons from di girls’ school.

Randi K. Gill-Sadler 10/1/26 Randi K. Gill-Sadler 10/1/26

Blooming, Epistolary Poetics Against U.S. Empire

The Friendship of Nancy Morejón and June Jordan.

Lysz Flo 10/1/26 Lysz Flo 10/1/26

Mouth of Machetes

& only a machete wielded as wand will do.

Leigh-Ann Worrell 10/1/26 Leigh-Ann Worrell 10/1/26

Writing a Revolution

Reflections on Storying Social Change.

Joanne C. Hillhouse 10/1/26 Joanne C. Hillhouse 10/1/26

A Hurricane Hits like a Bomb

So much had changed since Daniel blew up her family’s life, but the water was still the same, still coming and going.