Frig It!
Screenplay for a not-yet-produced short film.
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.
Reconnecting to Caribbean Folklore with “When We Were Birds”
It blends the stories from our ancestors — recollections from the enslaved, the indentured, and the colonial masters, as well as remnants of indigenous memory.
Don’t sleep on Caribbean Fantasy and Science Fiction
Caribbean Futurism (A Reflection on 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑚, 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝘵𝘰𝑟𝑒, 𝑅𝑒𝘵𝑢𝑟𝑛)
Among Flowers: A Journey with Jamaica Kincaid
Have you ever looked at a book, read its synopsis, and just knew it would be a book that would change your life?
Object Permanence
For me, the key is not to force it (what a character’s thing is) but to discover it over the course of revisions.
A Psalm for the Living
To whom shall I lift up my prayers
for the children of the living,
whose laughter descends from the clouds?
Empire Studies
Empire is efficient
at greed, at weaponizing belief,
systematic.
It can make you less than human to justify
its brutality towards you.
It can make you less than human to accept its brutality
towards others.
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
…when a character insists on her name, other things settle.
Get to Know Our Artist-in-Residence
Joanne, or Jhohadli, is one of Antigua and Barbuda’s most prominent contemporary writers.
A Place for Theory: Finding Ceremony at the Black Feminisms Forum
But what does it mean to have an unforgettable romantic retreat at the scene of an unnamed Black woman’s subjection?
I Can’t Stop
image after image of ash, of smoke
of babies broken and split
of mothers wailing and wailing
and I refuse to look away,
refuse to give away
my humanity
a reconciliation of realities
The oppression of the Palestinian people is wrapped up in the oppression of marginalized communities all throughout the world and squarely all the communities I am apart of. black, woman, queer, from a small Caribbean island.
Coming Soon: Teach-In Series
Intersect Antigua-Barbuda is pleased to announce its upcoming inaugural teach-in series.
I save nothing - 22/10/23
This is a place of terrible things.
We are terrible things.
When I look around me, I do not know what to save first,
in my dreams I see everything burn in the fire,
I save nothing, not even myself.
original sin - 09/10/23
There was once a girl whose father had heavy hands,
Now all the heavy hands in the world couldn't hurt her, move her, sway her.
all the lovers - 10/11/23
All the lovers are dead in Gaza.
I was made with the heart of a poet and so,
all I know to write
Is of love and flowers,
gentle touch and betrayal.
Coming Soon: Artist-In-Residence
Intersect Antigua-Barbuda is pleased to announce its forthcoming inaugural series, The Artist-In-Residence programme.
Reverberations
Ashes unnatural, missing marks of time
names scribbled hopefully instead
to be recited over and over by the living’s
attempts at resurrection