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Poet. Playwright. Writer. 🇦🇬

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Mr. Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo completed
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Jurassic Park by Critchon completed.

Now enjoying Don't Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri on Audible. www.audible.com/pd/024140171...
Don't Touch My Hair
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Straightened. Stigmatised. 'Tamed'. Celebrated. Erased. Managed. Appropriated. Forever misunderstood. Black hair is never 'just hair'.This book is about why...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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If you're in Antigua come out to UWI Open Campus this evening at 6pm.

If you're a fan of Caribbean literature you definitely don't want to miss it.
Flyer Open Studio: Artist Talk with Joanne C. Hillhouse (pictured) today, April 01 at UWI Open Campus from 6-7pm
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Hopefully this will be a new coping mechanism.

I'm researching and you get to come along....ish...bit....kinda.

The topic..? that's not how this works... it's fluid.

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Screenshot of a section of the linked article with a section highlighted: In the initial period of slavery, a slave displaying signs of severe mental illness could and would be summarily executed. Later, in 1851, an American physician called Samuel Cartwright described dysaesthesia aethiopica – a so-called mental illness affecting slaves, the ‘symptoms’ of which included disobedience, answering disrespectfully, or refusing to work. Post-emancipation, the sole care model for mentally ill Jamaicans was the Bellevue Lunatic Asylum, a vast Victorian institution built by the colonial government in 1862. Bellevue underlined and echoed the same principle of involuntary incarceration that had been a brutal hallmark of the slavery system. Among those incarcerated in desperate and deplorable conditions were political activists such as Rastafari and others displaying unusual or bizarre methods of expressing resistance to colonial apartheid. When, more than 100 years later, I found myself working as a consultant psychiatrist at Bellevue, I would learn first-hand of the depth and complexity of the mental, social and political enslavement imposed on Jamaican people. It was 1974 and Bellevue still housed 3,000 people within its walls.
April 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Cover of "Sickened: The Memoirs of A Munchausen by Proxy Childhood" by Julie Gregory. However this cover reads "Sickened: The True Story of A Lost Childhood" The cover shows a white background with a thin, blonde little girl standing at the centre wiping her left eye with her left hand while holding a small teddy bear to the side of her chest with the other. The color of the image is very washed out. The girl is behind the title which is position a little below her knees. Above her head there's a recommendation quote which reads: '"A work of beauty from a beast of a childhood." - Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors'
November 17, 2024 at 11:56 AM
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January 2, 2024 at 3:05 AM