amílcar peter sanatan
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Le Flâneur Antillais | Carimagination 🌷
“It is the problem of this era, the way the ever-changing present seems to render the past irrelevant and, as a consequence, the dislocation of the reader for whom the question becomes not merely ‘where is here?’ but ‘what is now?’” - Gordon Rohlehr
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“So I write, exhausted, this closure of cycles, this steady perfection of all our fables. I write the end of yesterday and watch the omen of tomorrow unfold in this strange shattering of today. Is I, Bookman…keeping the fate, trodding still the broken path toward nothing.” - Gordon Rohlehr
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Peggy Antrobus is a Caribbean daughter with an illustrious career in community-building, academia and international development. She is a figure in the global women's rights movements and helped build the blocks of Caribbean feminism + our regional gender mechanisms.
5 days ago
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In my ongoing celebration of the living legend Merle Hodge, I give respect to her + all Caribbean women authors on International Women's Day. What was Caribbean society set to gain when Caribbean women gave their imagination in fiction writing? 🧵
5 days ago
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"Listen, pay attention [to] every word. Every magical moment is a poem, is a lyric. The way she walks is a lyric. The way he talks is a lyric." - David Rudder (2022)
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"When people say, 'you write great poetry.' Because I listened to the people. The nuts lady had something to say. You know? And I have to pay respects to my first university, better known as Freetown, Belmont." - David Rudder(2022)
7 days ago
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"I went away Ah leave and ah come back home Ah come back to stay Ah must see meh way" - André Tanker, Back Home
8 days ago
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"americana, antillana, boricua, para SIEMPRE." - Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
8 days ago
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Thank you to the Commonwealth Alliance of Youth Workers’ Associations for this recognition of my contribution to youth work in the Caribbean & Americas Region. More heart, more space, more recognition of the self in the other, less ego. We only win with love.
12 days ago
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Tka Pinnock and I co-organised "Future Orientations: Canada-Finland Symposium for Emerging Scholars in Caribbean Studies Research." The symposium brought together 20+ scholars, researchers and activists to discuss new directions in Caribbean Studies.
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Welcome Remarks at Future Orientations: Canada-Finland Symposium | York University (2026)
YouTube video by amílcar peter sanatan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSjb52H1DpA
12 days ago
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My chapter, "Reflections on Men's Organising to End Gender-based Violence in the Caribbean," takes stock of my understandings, feelings and lessons learnt engaging Caribbean men and boys for gender equality 'all ova de place'.
www.uwipress.com/978976658028...
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Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean
Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities is a landmark collection that addresses one of the region’s most pressi...
https://www.uwipress.com/9789766580285/gender-based-violence-in-the-caribbean/
12 days ago
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I've always wanted to have creative works published in Callaloo Journal. My two poems, "Sunday Morning, Sea Lots" and "Funeral of a Zesser," have found a home alongside other literary works.
muse.jhu.edu/article/980700
12 days ago
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival built a stage for me to walk listeners through carnival in spoken word. If you tune in, you will hear calypso, soca, Midnight Robber talk, and the creative imagination of a Caribbean people in hypercolour.
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Episode 58 | Spoken Word - amilcar sanatan (Trinidad & Tobago)
Podcast Episode · BCLF Cocoa Pod · February 11 · 17m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-58-spoken-word-amilcar-sanatan-trinidad-tobago/id1598720414?i=1000749436336
12 days ago
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I had a lovely time with Alexandria Miller discussing the regional context of Hair Codes + Grooming Policies in Secondary Schools in the Caribbean. This is not a theoretical topic for me.
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School Hair Codes, Colonial Respectability, And Caribbean Rights with amílcar peter sanatan - Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture
A school bans “edges,” a graduation blocks braids, a child with locks is told to stay home—on the surface, they’re dress code debates. Look closer and you see a lineage of power: colonial respectabili...
https://episodes.strictlyfactspod.com/1562981/episodes/18270398-school-hair-codes-colonial-respectability-and-caribbean-rights-with-amilcar-peter-sanatan
12 days ago
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"Take me to the river, Take me to the sea, Wash over me, Music, Wash over me. Take me to the river, take me to the river, Wash over me, Music, wash over me." - Freetown Collective
16 days ago
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"Let me at least fail at my life. Think, they say patiently, we could make you famous again. Let me fall in love one last time, I beg them. Teach me mortality, frighten me into the present. Help me to find the heft of these days. That the nights will be full enough and my heart feral." -Jack Gilbert
17 days ago
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"How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me" - W.H. Auden
17 days ago
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My Uncle Gerard Sanatan has entered that final door of life. He was my soft-spoken, "big limer," handsome uncle who loved a good song, a dance, a curry, and his family. It is always difficult being away from family when you lose someone.
21 days ago
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On Friday 27th February, 2026, we are hosting "Future Orientations: Canada-Finland Symposium for Emerging Scholars in Caribbean Studies Research."
29 days ago
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James Van Der Beek 😭😭😭😭 Sleep well 🙏🏿
about 1 month ago
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Bad Bunny. Thank you 👑 Caribbean icon. Unapologetic.
about 1 month ago
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2026 Soca is definitely the best post-pandemic offering for carnival. It took us 5 years to find form, it seems. But, the landscape has evolved dramatically. "Sub-genres" of Trinibad, "new calypso," dancehall and reggae have fully crossed over into the Fete and Road mainstream.
about 2 months ago
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"There is so much of value that we have created for which there is no place in the society we should be building. So trapped are we in the self-contempt of the colonial condition that we can’t even see the wonder of ourselves." - Sunity Maharaj
about 2 months ago
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One of the songs the Jackson 5 authored in their post-Motown career. The end was near. Michael had the freedom to write his own songs. They were men in a former "boy band." moved to his Michael Jackson era. But, this is a lovely dance song. Mellow mood.
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The Jacksons featuring Michael Jackson - Show You The Way To Go • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiVyhr_may0&list=RDoiVyhr_may0&start_radio=1
about 2 months ago
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"Front page is where legends belong, but backstage is where legends are born. Look how much security, is like the stage frighten ah we.” - Machel Montano, Encore 👑 🇹🇹
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Machel Montano is making his move to be the Monarch of all Road March Monarchs. "Carnival Birthday" with Superblue + Kernal Roberts is jam + tribute to Lord Kitchener’s legacy. Montano is honouring the past while preparing to surpass it. Soca history in the making.
2 months ago
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We leaving these behind in 2025. Giving thanks, Almilcar. 😘
2 months ago
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Him: You're from the West Indies. Me: Yes. And you? Him: Nepal. Me: Nice to meet you. I haven't met many people from Nepal. But I get to meet quite a number of people from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India over here. We talk about cricket. Him: Yes. You look like Chris Gayle
2 months ago
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Merry Christmas 🥰
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Amilcar Sanatan - No Veggie Pastelle [Rasta Parang] | Music Video
YouTube video by amílcar peter sanatan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cnMK5BFzbo&list=RD5cnMK5BFzbo&start_radio=1
3 months ago
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"I'm just glad to be a part of something pure and ethical basketball" - Victor Wembanyama
3 months ago
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Colonial postcards, Jamaican dancehall in Helsinki, gold chains, Derek Walcott's "Fragments of Epic Memory," and Siddiqi & Blackburn's ethnography at "intimate and familiar scales." I thoroughly enjoyed delivering "The Politics of the Ordinary" at the University of Helsinki.
3 months ago
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The keynote address at the 2025 Dutch Black Scholars Conference was a positive vibration. My presentation title was: Flâneur Noir, Flâneur Antillais: Walking (A)way in the World. "Fortunate Traveller"? Oui.
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3 months ago
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New artwork and poetry alert 🙂 Poems and paintings about Finland published in Public 72, edited by good vibrations Dr. Shauna Sea and Nadine Valcin. Pre-order for journal:
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3 months ago
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The Shallow Tales Review reproduced my artwork "groomed in a postcolony." This work was first exhibited in Trinidad and Tobago at ThinkArtWork studio.
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groomed in a postcolony | amílcar peter sanatan - The Shallow Tales Review
“beginning dread” beginning dread is a tribute to youth in the Caribbean, inspired by Rastafari and Ragamuffin politics, who grow out their hair as part of a bodily, psychic and…
https://theshallowtalesreview.com.ng/groomed-in-a-postcolony-amilcar-peter-sanatan/
3 months ago
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Good news. I came out on top as a winner of the UK-based Poetry Archive Worldview 2025 competition. "Ihmeköynnös" is a poem for my mother, my anchor. The world is a complicated place. Flowers are simple and beautiful.
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Poetry Archive Now Wordview 2025: Ihmeköynnös - Poetry Archive
Miracle vine used to grow around my window. My mother’s not here, nor her spade. Still, I walk this city like her backyard, believing flowerbeds outlive this season’s wry outlook and my limited days. ...
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/poetry-archive-now-wordview-2025-8/
3 months ago
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"after scrubbing garden tiles helpers disrupt / hot sun servitude / sing gospel / dream parliaments of rakes and brooms on the bus stand a school girl bleeds / grips the blade in her pocket / she believes blisters by her own hands are better"
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‘Sleep Well, Kingston’ by amílcar peter sanatan – Moko
https://mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/kingston-amilcar-peter-sanatan/
3 months ago
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"Decolonization involves ensuring our children are raised on Caribbean literature..." - Marsha Massiah Enjoyed this interview with my hot mouth, dedicated and space-making friend.
@sxsalon.bsky.social
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Decolonizing Literature and Literary Festivals
Marsha Massiah was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1979 and migrated to Brooklyn, New York, in 2003. She is the founder and executive director of the annually hosted Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festiva...
https://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/interviews/decolonizing-literature-and-literary-festivals
3 months ago
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"As Danielle demanded for her home island-nation, she too should be called “beacon” and “flame” for us. She was for me. I am a richer writer for these brief interactions. Respè."
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Writing Haiti and the Caribbean Present
Onè.
https://smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poetry-prose/writing-haiti-and-caribbean-present
3 months ago
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Anson Gonzalez has done so much for poetry in Trinidad and Tobago and Caribbean literature as a whole.
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This is for you Uncle Anson. Sleep well.
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Errata of Memory: a tribute to Anson Gonzalez and the power of spoken word - Magma Poetry
As I approach my twentieth year as a performer and activist, I have cause to reflect on spoken word in Trinidad and Tobago. I am thinking about the labour taken on by many people, in and out of the “m...
https://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-93/articles/errata-of-memory-a-tribute-to-anson-gonzalez-and-the-power-of-spoken-word/
3 months ago
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LeBron James 👑 Remarkable 10pt streak. I hoped it went on forever. But, you are the boss of the court, made the game winning pass and will continue to define the sport in the years ahead.
3 months ago
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add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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"...because the fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, in spite of History." - Derek Walcott
4 months ago
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“They have a civilizing decency, like Botanical Gardens, as if the sky were a glass ceiling under which a colonized vegetation is arranged for quiet walks and carriage rides.” - Derek Walcott
4 months ago
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"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo." - Derek Walcott
4 months ago
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Travel well, Jimmy Cliff 🕊️ You changed our world 🌍 and the way we saw ourselves with your voice 🙏🏿🌺
4 months ago
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sx salon
4 months ago
“Decolonization involves ensuring our children are raised on Caribbean literature.” In this interview,
@amilcarsanatan.bsky.social
and Marsha Massiah discuss the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, the diaspora, and hope. Read more on their conversation here:
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amílcar peter sanatan
sx salon
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Thank you to the authors who contributed interviews and dialogues to this issue: Rachel Mordecai | Kelly Baker Josephs |
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| Marsha Massiah | Shrinagar Francis | Fawzia Muradali Kane |
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amílcar peter sanatan
sx salon
4 months ago
And our gratitude goes to the authors for sharing poetry and prose:
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@kgapoetwriter.bsky.social
| Morgan Christie | John Robert Lee |
@omegadenyse.bsky.social
| Letitia Marie Pratt | Malica S. Willie | Conor Bracken | Keith Jones
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“it is better to speak / remembering / we were never meant to survive." - Audre Lorde
4 months ago
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La connaissance poétique naît du grand silence de la connaissance scientifique - Aimé Césaire (1944)
4 months ago
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