Exploring the mythology of the warrior goddess in Indo-Caribbean culture #Navaratri2022 #caribbeanmythology #Kali #sacredfeminine #warriorgoddess preelit.com/2022/01/13/jou…

Sunrise at Mayaro (Beverly Mahabir-Charles,2022)

Amazing performance by NAPS Combined ( Naparima Girls High School and Naparima College). Winners of the secondary school category 2023 National Junior Panorama finals. youtu.be/_7hXc3tn7_4

Kali Mai in mas - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday newsday.co.tt/2023/02/08/kal…

#ClipOfTheDay: In this 1998 video from HoCoPoLitSo’s The Writing Life series, Amiri Baraka reads a selection of his poems and speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller about writing influences, the link between poetry and music, and pushing against the norms. at.pw.org/Baraka

Celebrating our philosopher & calypsonian David Rudder David Michael Rudder at 70. #DavidRudder #calypsomusic Some reflections on his music legacy.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v613/m…

Ceramic artist Heidi McKenzie’s exhibit: Reclaimed at the Gardiner Museum Gardiner Museum Panel discussion exploring Indo-Caribbean women’s labor, jewelry, lived experiences with Ramabai Espinet, Alissa Trotz, Nalini Mohabir Nalini Mohabir and me #IndoCaribbean

Sunset (Beverly Mahabir-Charles, 2023)

Curated by Andil Gosine, Kelly Sinnapah Mary’ s exhibit is at the Aicon art gallery until Jan 15, 2024. Kelly’s work elevates rural Indo- Guadeloupean culture, highlighting the importance of nature in the Indo-Caribbean imaginary. #indocaribbean

Remembering Lakshmi Persaud (1939-2024). Butterfly in the Wind (1990) Peepal Tree Press made history as the first novel to be published by an Indo-Caribbean woman, bringing visibility to the themes, tropes and preoccupations of Indo-Caribbean women's writing #indocaribbean

Calling in police enforcement on nonviolent demonstrations of young students on campus is an escalatory, reckless, and dangerous act. It represents a heinous failure of leadership that puts people’s lives at risk. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

A brilliant article with some powerful images. Have you read Gabrielle Hosein's 'The botanical afterlife of indenture: Mehndi as imaginative visual archive'? scienceopen.com/hosted-documen… #Mehndi #FeministPraxis #CounterArchive

CI remembers Fredric Jameson (1934-2024).

This guide provides essential information for undocumented and asylum-seeking students on accessing education at CUNY and SUNY, including eligibility, tuition, financial aid, and available support resources. documentedny.com/2024/09/26/stu…

Thanks to Journal of Indentureship and Its Legacies and Pluto Journals for including this poem “Rumshop Illuminations.” How rumshop discourses consider the social ontology of masculinity and criminality. #indocaribbean #boysiesingh #rumshops scienceopen.com/journal-issue?…

Dr. Lisa Outar accepts the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award, given to Journal of West Indian Literature, on behalf of all its present, past, and founding editors. "Journal work is collective work", says Outar, thanking the many designers, artists, scholars, peer reviewers who have given so much to JWIL.

Project: Dr. Gabrielle Hosein (@grrlscene) Curation and Design: Melanie Archer (@themelaniearcher) Photography: Abigail Hadeed (@abigailimages)

At the Fridman Gallery, Remy Jungerman’s exhibit Blue Obia shows, through geometric patterns and Saamaka textiles, the precision and complexity of Caribbean obeah practices #caribbeanart