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LA REVOLUTION… ONE DAY
Memory only matters for the future. I love to go to a specific beach back home in Saint Lucia. It’s a long yellow sand beach called Reduit Beach. I was at this beach one day with my family. While I was in the water with my little cousin, teaching her how to swim, I…
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FÉLICITÉ VILLE CASTRIES
Félicité Ville Castries The gutter guppies were true freedom fighters. I liked to watch them swim – I still do – in the grey, stagnant water in the gutters that ran through Castries. Picture from r/whatsit displaying small fish in a gutter These sludge-filled veins ran through the city, distributing the heavy smell of rot and…
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‘The Forty-leg in the White Rum’ and other things our Grandparents used to heal each other
A digital anthology of forgotten Caribbean traditional medicine, as seen through the eyes of the younger generation. Re-engaging with Caribbean traditional medicine means re-connecting with Caribbean cultural history and with the stories of those before us. I want to take you on this marvelous journey with me, starting with a poem read by a Jamaican…
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Kwéyòl and a Posthumanist Futurity
Following European colonisation, gendered pronouns have become the norm in language usage. Nonetheless, with the increasing number of individuals adopting gender-neutral pronouns, the perception of gendered language as the default is changing. Gender-neutral terms are not a contemporary craze. They have existed for hundreds of years, dating back to the 14th century in Europe. The…
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Bilingualism is a fancy word for forked tongue.
Saint Lucians’ linguistic identity manifests in the two languages we use to express ourselves and their convergence at the core of our being. After the Anglo-Franco wars for Saint Lucia, the island was ultimately under British rule from 1815 until independence in 1979. The official language of Saint Lucia is English, but it informally shares…
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RE-MEMBERING the History of Saint Lucian Kwéyòl
Prefer to read? The island of Saint Lucia lies between the turbulent waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the calm waves of the Caribbean Sea. Situated in the middle of the Eastern Caribbean island chain, Saint Lucia has been a transitory point for hundreds of years during the precolonial and colonial periods. It was used…
Sylvia Wynter's Dream 