To say that I'm really enjoying my Race, Gender and Sexuality in Dancehall class would be an understatement. Today we debated whether dancehall is "capitalist" or a tool of "resistance." These were students' contributions/takeaways.

My dear friend and colleague, Zophia Edwards' book, has a cover and soon out: dukeupress.edu/fueling-deve....

Check it out!

My hybrid public lecture at @uoft.bsky.social is happening tomorrow. Please check it out if interested.
www.environment.utoronto.ca/events/resis...

This was a nice letter to read. It's been a long time since I received a letter.

Rsvp here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Barbudans!

Now, some of you may understand my opposition to use of the term "decolonial." It's kinda ridiculous now in more ways than one.

My Spring course: "Pum Pum Power": Race, Gender and Sexuality in Jamaican Dancehall Music.

The bankruptcy of the Caribbean misleadership class is boundless. To curry favor with Sandals, known as one of the worst employers in tourism in the region, which some have called a plantation is astounding.

Excerpt from the 48th Regular Meeting of the Conference of HoG CARICOM caricom.org?p=44117

"Whither" just didn't sound right.

There are so many important nuggets here.

This is happening next week. Such an important discussion among some instructive and critical colleagues and friends. Please tune in if you can.

Something I'm excited about in these times... my spring course on dancehall. What are you holding grace or excitement about these days?

The proofs are here for my latest essay (3 years in the works) and forthcoming in the CLR James Journal: "Unsettling the Plantation 'Babylon' System: Humanness beyond disaster, reparative ecologies and Caribbean freedom". A thoroughgoing assessment of the Caribbean reparations program. It soon come.