Ancestral Wisdom as a Somatic Practice with Karlyn Percil
“What becomes possible when we stop outsourcing our healing and come home to what our lineages already know?”
Saltwater Healing with Dr. Angelique Nixon
“In the Caribbean, rivers, swamps, coastlines, and forests share stories of rebellion.”
Queer Joy as a Liberatory Practice with Shadeen Francis
For systemically excluded communities, joy is more than a feeling; it is a political position and healing technology.
The Grenada Revolution with Amílcar Sanatan
Revolutionary movements and figures must be demasculinized.
Oil Wars in the Americas with Dr. Ryan Cecil Jobson
“The oil war can be understood as the latest incursion on Latin American and Caribbean sovereignty in the wake of political decolonization.”
A Liberation Delayed with Dr. Natasha Lightfoot
“Black working people did not consistently subvert the control of colonial elites, as becoming free embedded them even more deeply in the structures of colonial domination.”
The Transnational Politics of June Jordan with monaye johnson
“June Jordan was uninterested in poetry and writing as a form of escapism; she was using it as a specific political tool — exemplified in ‘Poem about My Rights.’”
Intersectionality in Transnational Contexts with Dr. Brittney Cooper
"To treat intersectionality as an account of identity is to shear the framework of its radical potential and make it easily co-optable for neoliberal aims.”
Caribbean Feminist Possibilities with Dr. Tonya Haynes
What are the radical possibilities of Caribbean feminisms? Do Caribbean feminisms confront their historical exclusions?
Old Testaments
“When I agreed to testify against that man, I did it because Isaiah wanted me to. Because I needed to. Because a little distance lulls you into a false sense of security. Because the silent empty well I’d been falling down for years finally allowed me to scream.”
Salt
The water rolled up another time in quiet apology…
Babel and Babylon: Confronting Systems of Silence and Violence represented in novels by Cherie Jones and Kei Miller
“There are so many more credits to attribute to the authors of these texts whose use of narratology, both in fiction and nonfiction, activates knowledge and clarifies absences about women which remained hidden historically.”
Get to Know Our New Artist-in-Residence
Her creative work includes her recently published poetry collection The Mother Island which won 2nd place in the 2021 FCLE competition. The collection deals with matters of identity, motherhood and womanhood in the Caribbean.
Frig It! Screenplay for a not-yet-produced short film
Irma swings the flashlight toward the gap where the door and window used to be.
Caribbean Celluloid: Telling Our Stories on Film
“One Love. That’s right, this session is about film – not just that film though, but Caribbean film more broadly and specifically ones I’ve seen this half year. Twice in the case of Bob Marley: One Love.”
Don’t sleep on Caribbean Fantasy and Science Fiction
I’m partial to humans doing human things.
Object Permanence
On the page, as in life, people (characters) have things that mean something to them; that come to symbolize things in the greater context of the story. For me, the key is not to force it (what a character’s thing is) but to discover it over the course of revisions.
What Can Story Do?
I’m not a scientist nor a politician, but, climate change is real and writing is how I process life.
The Imprecise Science of Character Naming
A recurring thought, so far, has been names/identity/labels as I navigate who these characters are, what they call themselves and, because we live in a social reality, what they are called by others.
Get to Know Our Artist-in-Residence
Joanne, or Jhohadli, is one of Antigua and Barbuda’s most prominent contemporary writers. Having contributed to the growth of the literary scene on a local, regional, and international scale, she has published eight books of fiction…