Sylvia Wynter's Dream

December 2023

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    Alexie’ Atoll

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    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Hib Ahn Lang Shoa Alexie was my second cousin. She passed away at the age of 23. Her father was my grandmother’s brother, Servilliano Garcia Jr. and he was married to Farita Jones. Alexie was their second eldest child. She had one daughter, Priscilla. If she had…

  • Nora’s Atoll

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    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Hib Ahn Lang Shoa Cop Slayer By Blaire Santos June 4, 1963 That night, Pinita kept vigil outside the execution yard. She and at least two hundred others had followed Nora Parham’s eight sons into the narrow belly of Gabourel Lane outside Her Majesty’s Prison. As Pinita…

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    The Belize Enterprise for Sustainable Technology (BEST)

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    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Hib Ahn Lang Shoa BEST is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation managed and operated by Belizeans. It was founded in 1985. The organisation helps to create economic benefits for the poor and strengthens the ability of community-based enterprises to sustain their own development. It fulfills this goal by…

  • Bernard’s Atoll

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    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Adapted from Pictures of My Father During the tender but rather extensive reflection that was the eulogy for Uncle Mike, Daddy leaned over and whispered, “Blaire, noh mek mine so l-lang. Me noh want no lang b-boring eulogy. Seh ‘ih mi love ih daughter and ih farm,’…

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    Brodam’s Atoll

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    by Blaire Santos | 20th December, 2023 | Extended version of the short story, Blair Atoll “Grandma, me an Blaire wahn si Daddy.” “Aarait, Brods. Blaya!” she yelled, unable to pronounce my name. “Go bring di foan.” I stretched coiled wire ringlets until the house phone reached Grandma’s hand, then went back to the base…

  • Hib Ahn Lang Shoa

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    by Blaire Santos | December 21, 2023 | Final Project All right, this lick down ketch we, how we wa move on from ya? Silvaana udz Hib Ahn Lang Shoa is an ongoing project aimed at continuing the stories those gone before us and drawing connections between their deaths and social amnesia. “Hib ahn lang shoa”…

  • MY WEEKLY WRITINGS

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    By Kelli-Rae Francis For my “Creative Non-Fiction Writing and Digital Media” course, we are encouraged to write weekly blog posts using prompts provided by our lecturer. As a lover of writing, this was one of my favorite parts of the course. Go on….give them a read below. MY STORIES LOST DREAMS MAKE SPACE FOR NEW…

  • False Memories: Death and Creation pt 2

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    The Seven Sins of Memory Daniel Schacter, professor of psychology at Harvard University proposed the ‘Seven Sins of Memory’ in his book The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers. In the book, Daniel Schacter explains the process in which the brain forgets, recollects and reconstructs memories. These memory sins may lead…

  • Remember Thy Creator

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    Greetings! Please see my final project for LITS3604.

  • Anmesia: the things we wish we could forget

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    The following YouTube video is a complication of a lot of hard work blood sweat and tears. I do sincerely hope that you enjoy the YouTube video and walk away with a new perspective