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Videos of my Maternal Grandparents
These videos capture moments that I share with my maternal grandparents. Although I am often behind the camera instead of in the video, I cherish these shared experiences. These videos include moments with my maternal grandparents, their children, grandchildren and other relatives and friends, sharing their Jamaican voice as we celebrate grandparents and cultural identity.…
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Miska G.’s Final Project Page
The Jamaican Voice: Real And/Or Imagined Grandparents Defining Cultural Identity Click here to see my blog post: Grandparents Defining Cultural Identity: Their Fragments That Complete Me Click here to see my Flash CNF post: Call Me By My Name Click here to see my Flash CNF post: Naughty, Not Nice Click here to see my…
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Grandparents Defining Cultural Identity: Their Fragments That Complete Me
Cultural Identity When I think of cultural identity, I think of all the things that a group of people have in common that will give them a sense of identity and belonging. A better definition speaks where culture is the shared characteristics of a group of people, encompassing, place of birth, religion, language, cuisine, social…
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Flash CNF: The Man I Never Knew
he is remembered only in bits and pieces, with the question of how accurate those things about him may be, we will never truly know, he was a quiet jeweller who travelled across the island and more impressively he travelled with his father to our motherland, he fell in love and married young and lived…
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Flash CNF: The Lady in White
a fair plump woman with short black curls, a sad smile and draped in a white dress observes a sleeping baby girl cradled in the embrace of the only grandmother she knows, she drifts silently at the side of the bed, no shadow beneath her feet, no rise and fall of her chest, no scent,…
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Flash CNF: Woman of the Century
* Disclaimer: depictions of violence, may cause your eyes to sweat at 5’ something, a girl became a woman when she was claimed by another man, and though she was 6 years older than him, he was the dominant one in their relationship, a brown beauty in a pink dress moved away from her family…
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Miska G.’s Modeled Task Interview
My Paternal Grandparents I had a conversation with my dad in the form of an interview, learning more about what my paternal grandparents were like, their origin, their background and how they were perceived by other people. This interview took place in the living room of our house at 11 am. Transcription of Interview, 5-minute…
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Miska G.’s TikTok Modeled Post
I am a Jamaican Desi girl
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Miska G.’s Modeled Writing Task #2: Call Me By My Name
“no one calls me by my name, you should call me by my name, I want you to call me by my name”
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Miska G.’s Flash CNF: Naughty, Not Nice
We were all playing and laughing. So why am I the only one who is crying?
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