by jessiemayers | Class Blog 6 | 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,…

by jessiemayers | Class Blog 5 | Setting is more than a place, it’s sensory 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…

jessiemayers | Multimodal Post 2 Saint Lucian Linguistics and Toponymy Here are the findings from my research on content creators with a similar focus to my final project!

by jessiemayers | Class Blog 4 | Opening Line Prompt Bilingualism is a fancy word for forked tongue.

by jessiemayers | Class Blog 3 | Challenging Beliefs AN ARTISTIC ILLUSTRATION OF OPENMINDED-NESS I’d like to think I’m a very open-minded person. From a young age, I loved diving into beliefs and ideologies different from what I was taught. I had already read up on conspiracy theories surrounding the Bible, history, extraterrestrials and other…

by jessiemayers I am a storyteller deeply rooted in the bedrock of Saint Lucian culture and history. My name is Jessie, a scholar, writer and lover of epic stories. I am a Literatures in English major and a Film Studies and Creative Writing minor at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. I…

by jessiemayers | Class Blog 1 The new academic year 2023/2024 has ushered in a new era of “Dunce” labelled items, much to the excitement of students who wear the branded paraphernalia to support this pop culture trend and to the much less enthusiastic grumbles of disapproving educators. Dr. O’Neil Ankle, principal of the Jonathan…