Is Nature Healing?

Remember when the earth was actually healing at the start of the pandemic? Rivers were clear, animals roamed free, skies in previously heavily polluted cities were blue. That was really nice to see, albeit through pictures on social media as millions of people sat at home trying to steer clear of COVID-19. Two years later, […]

APPROPRIATING CARIBBEAN CULTURE?

Or should I call this ‘Carnival: The Drama Part 2’. On account of it’s been carnival season since December, it’s obvious that there would be more drama to ensue. Most recently, it’s been the argument about whether Carnival and Carnival costumes are the subject of cultural appropriation. Let’s talk about it. SO WHAT HAPPENED? It […]

CORONAVIRUS, XENOPHOBIA & FETE TICKETS

Unless you’ve been on some sort of social media hiatus for the past couple of weeks, this is ALL people have been talking about. It’s been a wild time. I’m going to break it down in this blog post (my first for February by the way). I’ve been meaning to write a post for a […]

CARNIVAL 2020: PART 1 – THE DRAMA

It’s January 19th 2020, but it’s been Carnival season since whatever day in December that Fuzion launched their costumes. I like Oshun, and the pink, flowered one – that’s really cute. I liked Xuvo’s red costume. As much as everybody is a fan of the orange madras one, I really can’t get on board just […]

HOW TWITTER SAVED CARNIVAL

I know someone will see the title of this blog post and try to ruin the concept of it all by trying to be super politically correct about it. It did not work the first time and it will not work today. I am well aware that Twitter did not actually save the Caribbean – […]

BY THE HOOK OR CROOK

How brand loyalty is the kink in St Lucian Carnival

Is Carnival A Hot Body Gyal Event

It’s officially band launch season – and with that comes the building anticipation to see costumes, and decide whether you’re sticking with your band from last year, or throwing band loyalty out the window. As a non-Carnival Jumper, my favourite part about band launch season is picking my hypothetical costume from each band. I never […]

Did Twitter Save the Caribbean?

I remember when I first made my Twitter account in 2010. I wasn’t sure what the exact purpose was, and none of my friends had accounts. So like a lot of other young people, the first set of accounts I followed were celebrities. Oprah was one of them. I don’t totally know why. Probably because […]

Lucian Carnival – From My Living Room

My only carnival experience to date is Kiddies Carnival in Canada in 2005. My mother signed me up because my half Trini cousin was taking part. I vaguely remember going to the mas camp, and the pictures are a joke (charging $10 if you want to see the worst of them). Either way, I don’t […]