Notices by ℕ. (nadinestorying@zirk.us)

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“Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?”

— Naomi Osaka, on France wanting the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty

Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, and St. Lucia have 60 days to “clear up perceived deficiencies, with the threat of being moved onto one of the other lists if they did not comply.”

Gift article from a subscriber: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4E4.yd_y.qmZ3j6rdStMn&referringSource=articleShare

#Caribbean
#TravelBan

Queerness is the thing that lets us imagine freedom. To imagine an ocean where we can float beyond the boundaries of the nations that try to hold us back. It’s the queer spirit of dreaming that will set us free.

— Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, from Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

Thread for Intersect Antigua-Barbuda’s new wellness programme, “Prideful Healing: Wellness in the Queeribbean”

Healing justice centers wellness as a form of resistance and survival.

— Dr. Alisa Alvis

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

For Caribbean people, particularly those of African descent, the body itself has been marked by colonial violence. These traumas are not simply historical; they are present in everyday interactions, laws, and social norms that continue to inflict harm on non-normative bodies.

— Rosamund S. King, from Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

Resistance is not just about survival, but about thriving. Queer Caribbean bodies resist by being and becoming...

— Rosamund S. King, from Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

Reclaiming slurs can be a way of using language to empower oneself.

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

To be seen is to risk violence, but also to claim space,

— Rosamund S. King, from Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

Disability justice acknowledges that disabled people, especially those from marginalized communities, face systemic barriers that limit access to healthcare, community participation, and healing practices. It calls for inclusion that goes beyond accessibility and into systemic equity.

— Dr. Alisa Alvis

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

Justice for all is rooted in care for the most vulnerable among us.

— Andil Gosine, from Sins Invalid, Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

We must dare to dream other ways of being in the world, where blackness, queerness, and femininity are not burdens but sources of strength and joy. Only through the imagination can we escape the confines of the present and make room for futures where we are free.

— adapted from Gloria Wekker’s The Politics of Passion: Women’s Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora

#WellnessInTheQueeribbean

“The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives, people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.).

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“Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.”

— Arundhati Roy

A Jamaican legend about the Golden Table arose from the Spaniards’ quest to find gold when they landed on our shores. It’s said that the Table occasionally rises at noon to the surface of the Rio Cobre, where the River Mumma, a Water spirit, inhabits. Those who see the Golden Table become enthralled and obsessed with obtaining it. However, their efforts to acquire it always end in death and disaster.

#Jamaica
#Caribbean
#Folklore
#JamaicanFolklore
#MythologyMonday

In recognition of #AfricaDay, here are a few of my memorable African reads:

Things Fall Apart
Who Fears Death
Stay With Me by A. Adebayo
Africanfuturism: An Anthology ed. Wole Talabi

In the photo is a spoon with kola nut, which is native to West Africa. We call it “bissy” in Jamaica. It saved my life when I was a teenager.

Gratitude to my Grandmother land (credit to Manbo Jessyka Winston for the term)! I salute you from Jamaica, my Motherland.

#Africa
#AfricanLiterature
#BlackMastodon

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

If you’re a Caribbean writer who resides in the Caribbean, submit your poetry, fiction, or non-fiction by June 7, 2024 to Writing for Our Lives, “an anthology of stories illuminating the urgency of the climate crisis for people and communities of Caribbean states marked by their varied yet substantial vulnerabilities”.

Learn more:

https://thecropperfoundation.org/writingforourlives/

#Caribbean
#CaribbeanWriters
#ClimateJustice

The chokehold Taemin has on me whenever he goes solo.

MOVE Version 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcEyUNeZqmY

MOVE Version 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-aIyueKNcY

MOVE Version 3 ft. Koharu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWUKCiWuXNY

#KPopMonday
Theme: #ImGoingSolo
#Kpop

Vogue Arabia shows their support for a free Palestine by featuring traditional hand embroidery from different regions of Palestine on the cover of their November issue.

#Palestine
#FreePalestine

All emerging and established Black women (cis, trans, and genderqueer) writers living anywhere in the world, this opportunity is for y'all.

Cassava Republic Press is seeking the best unpublished non-fiction manuscripts that challenge, inspire, and ignite change. Get yours ready to submit when applications open on October 26, 2023.

https://cassavarepublic.biz/black-womens-non-fiction-manuscript-prize/

#NonFiction
#BlackWomenWriters
#BlackFediverse
#BlackMastodon

@blackmastodon@a.gup.pe
@BlackMastodon@chirp.social

“Oh rascal children of Gaza. You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window. You who filled every morning with rush and chaos. You who broke my vase and stole the lonely flower on my balcony. Come back, and scream as you want and break all the vases. Steal all the flowers. Come back..Just come back..”
— Khaled Juma, a Palestinian poet from Rafah, Gaza, penned this poem in 2014