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Jamaica’s Schoolbag Controversy
Course Blog 1 | Antoneisha Dunn | September 11, 2023 Just a little over a week into the new school term, and controversy is already brewing. No, it’s not centered around absent teachers or school infrastructure woes. Who has the time for those discussions, anyway? Instead, as a community – albeit a subset of it…
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A Noob’s Journey into AI Art
By Kandice Thompson I first got into AI Art after I saw headlines of AI (artificial intelligence) generated concept art winning a competition which sparked debates online. Netizens were concerned that AI Art may phase out the need for traditional artists and whether or not it’s fair for AI Art to compete against humans. After…
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[Spoilers] Review of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
by Kandice Thompson This article containers spoilers Okay so hear me out, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was for the Black girls! Beyond the geopolitical wars and Marvel’s formulaic film style that has become standard in the superhero genre is a love letter to Black women and girls. No, this isn’t a co-sign of the damaging…
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Grace Jones: On The Cutting Edge
By Kandice Thompson Black Panther was many of our first entries into the world of Afrofuturism. This one film has done wonders with its reach, opening up the masses to ideas of a futuristic black society, but there is so much more. However, it seems as if most of the popular contributions have been done…
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Flashing Lights
By Kandice Thompson The heaviness of the solid block of glass felt fragile, cradled in my palm, when I gingerly plucked it from its black dais. My damp finger smudges barely discernible to the naked eye as I clumsily maneuvered the weight closer for inspection. A glass paperweight is a thing to marvel at, beauty…
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Own Voices: A Conversation with Gibrey Allen
By Kandice Thompson Gibrey Allen is the director of the 2020 film Right Near the Beach which examines Jamaica’s cultural approach to sexuality and grief. The film follows Miles after the loss of his son Jeff to a brutal hate crime. Allen also plays the Miles’ son Mike who returns to Jamaica for his brother’s…
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My Introduction to the Digital Humanities. Review of “Laurie Taylor and Cultivating Caribbean Knowledge”.
Greetings Cyber Sapiens My name is Kandice Thompson. I am a Literatures in English major, Film Studies minor at the University of the West Indies. On this day, in the year of our Lord 2022 this course, Creative Non-Fiction and Digital Media, felt like a necessity for a humanities student. In this techno-social era, navigating…
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Queen Elizabeth she died last night…
by Kandice Thompson Queen Elizabeth II of England died. The world is shaken. I am a rock in the sea, jutting out above the crashing waves…unmoved. As the rock would be wet from the splashing of turbulent waters, I too am not unaffected, just not moved. Not moved to tears, sorrow, or any particularly passionate…
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Brainstorming: Afrofuturism and Language
By Kandice Thompson How Do We Reconstruct Blackness? Afrofuturism’s fluid ideology is a space where the cultural can meet digital as our imaginings of the future are inherently tied to the development of technology. Maybe we imagine a societal collapse heralded by such technology and “progression”. Will we be going back – Sankofa anyone? We…
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