greetings and salutations
I know it's basically the opposite of what we preach these days. We are firm believers in the gospel of 'while they sleep i grind' to the point that we almost shame people who dare to rest (unless that rest involves a yacht and cha mpagne and can fit into the rubric of 'work hard …
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Often we think about how Jamaica makes it difficult for people to achieve things we often look at the outer extreme of poverty. Centring those who live in extreme poverty is important since they are most often ignored in many aspects. Only using that experience as a lens to understand Jamaica, however, leaves some other …
I find more and more my relationship with Jamaica is a conflicted thing full up of resentment and growing short on hope. I hate the feeling. The latest thing I am trying to make sense of is the vendors who beat a Rasta man and left him for dead because he started (him alone mind …
look here nuh, me used to see the meme dem and laugh after dem but me never realise how it real... is there any betrayal that cuts more deeply than when he smaddy who claim fi deh wid you nyam and leff you out? everything gone inna doubt after that yes you love me...when you …
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It's a 4 day weekend and i've sequestered myself into my home with snacks, turmeric (to counteract the snacks) and the highest hopes of going nowhere until Tuesday. There was a time I would have been rinsing paint from the crevices under my batty jaw and popping andrews like hope for a better world. those …
yes, me title it whyU.D because me think me savvy. Unnu cuddn tell me that despite being about the prevention of pregnancy, the IUD basically punish you every time you take even a tiny piece a ting? Me mumma. Me nuh know how unnu do it enuh. Maybe me too old. Maybe if I made …
"The essence I embrace are my curves, and if I could, I'd be naked most of the time... After years of being insecure and half-loving myself as person who isn't the 'normal' shape, size and sometimes even color, I decided that it would be easier to embrace who I am than to fight everyone telling …
