Anglicization, Maternal Heritage, and the Blood Quantum
The Spanish-Portuguese Nation of Barbados faced pressures to assimilate into “Colonial” British life, not only through antisemitic punishments..

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Preamble: In Memory and Resistance
We, the descendants of Anusim, Conversos, and Cristãos-Novos — those who were forcibly converted, exiled, erased, and spiritually dispossessed —

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I find it all a fickle agenda at my expense; perhaps they do not know I’m on the precipice of primacy, it entreats not dreams, but devotion. “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?”

Perhaps delusions,
Of grandeur;
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Discussing an instance where a bureaucrat and their superior tried to pressure me into Anglicizing my Judaized name. They failed, but they surely made a ton of antisemitic statements that alerted me to the true culture behind the civil service and the politics of naming.

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Discussing the intersection of Dougla identity, Sephardic heritage, and marginalization. Through the collection of oral stories, academic grounding, and Jewish studies, I can properly represent the Sephardic-Dougla experience.

Baruch HaShem,
Gavi da Kasa Baruch

I'm excited because I'm finally de-anglicizing, and decolonising my name. I've chosen a genealogical construction of my name and family

'Gavi da Kasa Baruch de Maria'el Iona-Primaeura dos Reis II'

The second, to honor my father, Iona, and Marthin Luther Barrow.

Another loss for the Barbadian Creole Sephardim, we are still denied voting rights

Her husband, Lance Neville King II, the Grandson of the Portuguese National, ... the first within his lineage to practice Roman Catholicism. He did so...maintaining Jewish ritualistic practices within his home.. aligning his house east, praying four times a day ..adorning himself in blue..

Merle Mary Shirley King practiced Shabbat by lighting black candles from Friday, or Thursday, to Saturday. In addition, she abstained from pork, refusing to cook it for herself...She raised her siblings. She would be .. misunderstood and villainized in her lifetime... She kept many secrets..

I will .. accept a compromise wherein I am allowed to form my own ... Society... at the Nidhe, similar ... to the Maccabeans if the Nidhe's hands are tied ...

If such a circumstance is found preferable, I do promise my society of friends will be most righteous, pious, and reverent...

My willingness to persist in protest, ... until recognition is granted. I do not take this lightly... Rather, I see it as an act of justice..

I remain open to dialogue .. I also remain committed ... If the Nidhe Israel Synagogue continues to deny me these rights, I will continue to press my case..

'The issue at hand is not merely symbolic. It is practical, and it is political. Voting rights in the Nidhe Israel Synagogue are presently withheld from descendants such as myself. I am formally requesting that the committee read the attached document...and deliberate ... recognition of my rights'

Disdain that which you cannot have...
My heart is too pure.

"I have envisioned a finer esse,
But every step I take drags me deeper into the unseen,
And when what is left of me speaks, “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.”

Succinctly, I lament…
I do not dream."

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Everyday, I am reminded, I too?

Can get jealous.

Guay de mi ke yo esto no konselo.

Guay de mi, mi Kerida de Yisrael no armor mi alma.

Guay de mi, no entiendo, por ké mi?

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"To be held as such — with my so-called, bewitching, homosexual, provocative, and ‘attention-seeking’ statements implicating the administration of many organizations — to which I genuinely cannot help, as I do mean it when I state: I am righteous, pious, and reverent"