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Snippets from Unpublished episodes – Hear me: Conversations with your Neighbour
Listen to my interview with Alex Joseph whose disability is a speech impediment. In this interview Alex discusses his disability and his hobbies. Listen to part 2 of Junetta’s interview that was not published on my podcast. Ms. Chen describes her original reaction to finding out she had Transverse Myelitis and her journey with her…
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The Podcast
Welcome, listeners and viewers, to the She and I Show where my mother (Stephanie) and I (Natalia) are going to discuss our opinions on a topic and then never return to it again…I mean maybe we will, you never know. Our first topic: Jamaican Voices Real and/or Imagined – The Freedom to Create and be…
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Sprinter (2018) Review: From Yaad to Abroad
The popular Netflix movie “Sprinter” (2018) shed some light on how language is used to represent people. The story revolves around a hopeful teen (Akeem) living with his unstable father (Garfield) and unruly older brother (Germaine), and his budding track and field career being the foundation of reuniting with his mother who ‘ran off’ to…
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Final Collaborative Project
We are the 2022 class of LITS3604 – Creative Non-Fiction & Digital Media Over the course of the past 13 weeks we have all been working on a major collaborative multimedia project based on the theme: Jamaican Voices: Real And/Or Imagined Below you can view the links to all of our individual contributions to the…
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Jamaica: Underscored
a documentary by Dominic Ramsay So, it’s that time of the year when final exams and projects start coming to haunt all the students. I took this class titled: LITS3604 – Creative Non-Fiction and Digital Media. We were asked to make contributions to a final collaborative project with the theme of Jamaican voices. Based off…
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The Archive
List of Caribbean/International Creative Writing Competitions (Now & Then) Non-Restrictive Writing Competitions (Past & Present) Deadline Competition Link Status February 15, 2022 Caribbean Magazine Plus (CMP) Short Story Contest http://www.caribmagplus.com/short-story-contest-eligibility-rules/ Closed May 25, 2022 Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) competition https://www.birdscaribbean.org/2022/04/calling-all-caribbean-nationals-we-are-hosting-a-story-poetry-competition/ Closed September 24, 2022 Booksie 2022 Short Story Competition https://theplazaprizes.com/competition/sudden-fiction/ Closed November 1, 2022 Commonwealth Short…
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A Story Rewritten
by Natalia Downer Below – and how it pains me so – I have attached a short story that I had begun writing for the PSCCA Short Story competition, only to later read the fine print and realize that, in order to actually have a chance of winning at all – not by my craft…
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Godforsaken Globalization
By Natalia Downer “Create and Celebrate or be Cast Aside?” – Godforsaken Globalization Photo by Ravi Kant: https://www.pexels.com/photo/word-define-on-spelling-dictionary-page-5929346/ There is a conversation going around concerning the issue of the modernization of cultures – which came as a result of globalization – destroying tradition. One source specifically tackles this conversation, paying close attention to novels written…
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Crazy Contradictions
By Natalia Downer “Create and Celebrate or be Cast Aside?” – Crazy Contradictions In the Caribbean, we celebrate when Jamaicans are published by foreign publishers; we revel in the fact that we are recognized by people who once colonized and enslaved us. Take Cyril Lionel Robert James (CLR James) for instance, a Trinidadian historian, journalist…
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The Purpose
By Natalia Downer “Create and Celebrate or be Cast Aside?” – an Introduction There is a very unfortunate misunderstanding – as I like to put it – that is tangled in the meaning of ‘Jamaican’. It is a misunderstanding that has been uprooting the individuality of each and every Jamaican, devaluing/ undermining the individual experience.…
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