Last week, a series of events were held in New Providence for PRIDE. PRIDE is rooted in the history of the LGBTQI+ movement and, more specifically, the Stonewall Riots that took place in New York in June 1969. This is the reason that many LGBTQI+ communities all over the world have PRIDE during the month […]
Yesterday marked two years since the beginning of a heightened awareness of the genocide in Palestine. This week, while discussion of a “20-point Gaza Peace Plan” take place, the genocide continues. I continue to write about the genocide in Palestine, enacted by “Israel”, because the genocide continues. I write about it because it is far […]
THE genocide continues in Palestine. “Israel” continues its brutality. Yesterday, soldiers detained two children in the occupied West Bank for “spying.” When people suggested they let them go because they are so young, one of the soldiers said, “I don’t care.” The Freedom Flotilla—more than 40 civilian boats with activists, lawyers, and parliamentarians—is steadily making […]
In recent days, multiple states have announced that they now recognise the State of Palestine. This comes after years genocide, forced famine, and continued violence and horrifying conditions, all imposed by “Israel”. It also comes on the heels of the new report that tells the world what we already know, having seen it for ourselves: […]
In The Bahamas, the commitment to and practice of respectability politics continues to outweigh common sense, human decency, and care for one another. It shows up in so many spaces and has been accepted as “normal” and “proper” for so long that it is rarely questioned, even when it causes obvious harm. Respectability politics, at […]
While Leslie Miller’s misogynistic, infantilising reference to Senator Michela Barnett-Ellis is not at all surprising, given his many public episodes, it has drawn attention to the longstanding issue of discrimination against women in political and public life. The idea that women are inferior and must be relegated to the private sphere and men are superior […]
Here we are, once again, bemoaning the result of the Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) examinations. This newspaper reported that only 22.3 percent of students who took the exams in five or more subjects got a C or above in mathematics, English, and a science. The vast majority of students are not meeting […]
After seeing Entou Pearl Springer’s “Freedom Morning Come” on Emancipation Day in Trinidad, I posed its central question to people I know through friendships, scholarship, and activism. What you gonna do with your freedom? Everyone was intrigued by the question, where it came from, and where it would take them as they explored it. It […]
What you gonna do with your freedom? This is the question posed by Freedom Morning Come, a play by Entou Pearl Springer, performed in front of the Treasury Building in Port of Spain on the morning of August 1—Emancipation Day in Trinidad. In the early hours of Emancipation morning, scores of people gathered to see […]
“National Family Week” started on July 19 and ends on July 26. It reportedly has the theme of “Uplifting and Strengthening Family Ties.” On Sunday, July 20, the Department of Gender and Family Affairs partnered with the anti-rights group that hides behind religion to host what they called the “First National Marriage Recommitment Service” with […]
