Is there a Love is Blind community group for cross-cultural discussions? I not too long finished watching Italy and France. France was rather special. South Africa is coming 🔜. Fr fr. Where do we gather?

Brazil 🇧🇷 🥹 Since 2006, the group stage has been…

Well done New York Knicks 🏆 This was a lovely campaign. San Antonio Spurs, you will return stronger. Wemby will be the future of this sport. One of the more exciting finals in the 2020s

Dark chocolate in bolognese 🙏🏿 You can’t say I didn’t tell you

"It's the life that I lived and I grew up on a small Caribbean island where people with such heart. When I say 'heart', I mean both courage and intensity. Because so much is precarious. So much can be lost in an instant. So much of our history is unknown to our people." - Canisia Lubrin

"These are the many different ways people actually tell stories in the world. We don't all have a MFA, but we all have stories. I grew up inside of a sociality where so much about what we think in terms of art is just lived and embodied and kind of 'everydayness'." - Canisia Lubrin

"The impact that History has on "livingness" is such that we can name its origins and then we can map its effects in the present. And, by so doing, there is something that happens in the human imagination that lets us reach into something called 'future'." - Canisia Lubrin

Sauna is life 🫡 löyly

“Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end of a love or a season?” – Robert Frost

un poète, un Antillais et ses fleurs

"your age in ashes, its coherence gone" - Derek Walcott

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” - Marcus Aurelius

You take man out of the city Not the city out the man 🎵

Big love to Jamaicans for giving the workd ska, reggae, dancehall, rocksteady, sound systems and so much more. All the African, UK and Caribbean people link up at these events. Magical 🇯🇲

Didn’t lose years ‘finding a centre’. It right here.

Oi Jyväskylä

It’s warm. You can tell 🙃

Winter in 🇫🇮 is “talvi”.

Tampere, “The Manchester of Finland”

Christmas in Finland 🇫🇮 Helsinki + Tampere

I’ve seen snow before. But, this is the first time I see snow born ❄️

Rainy and dark. First proper dhalpourie roti in a hot minute. You’d think that there were more bicycles than walkers. The connection with young scholars and artists in the Dutch context was a necessary refresher.

"...'Doh do dat, because your hairline receding too, horse.' In that moment, that 'celebrity power' was leveled. None of this was about a ‘stream’. This was about a generation and culture talking back." amilcarsanatan.com/dont-miss-th...

I’m not paying 2,90 💶 for one five finger. But, Autumn was beautiful until it rained every day.

Making food, re-making home

Time in the kitchen is time well spent 👨🏿‍🍳

Sommarboken

In the Caribbean we do not have “summers” in the traditional sense. We have the “July-August holidays.” This was my first Nordic summer. Beusorful flowers blooming everywhere. After doing work in the “field” in my home country, I reconnected with friends.

"...the past is never available. There is no second round.” - Eudine Barriteau

When your cousins and aunty don’t know you made a pass by their house and did an entire photo shoot dey? 😂😘🩵 it’s a love.

I visit the Morvant Lookout often. Back when I worked in Port-of-Spain, I’d go there for lunch to buy a “liquid” corn soup for ten dollars. I love corn soup, but my favourite version is without corn! Perhaps I really wanted a cup of dhal…

The community I first joined as guest, then resident, and then walking ethnographer. Bamboo Settlement #2 is a small village wired into the global trade of cars and parts, where mechanics bridge the distance between Japan and Trinidad.

I submitted my first entry to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2016. Ten years later, one of my entries made the longlist. My story's title was "Half Roti Is Not A Life." commonwealthfoundation.com/cwprize-long...

Many thanks to the project team of the "Imagining Futures in the Margins of the State" at the University of Helsinki and our PI, Dr. Maarit Forde. www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/...

The Derek Walcott Foundation hosted a workshop with Ishion Hutchinson on Ekphrastic poetry in Port-of-Spain. Peter Doig's 'Le Loupgarou' was an interesting visual tale/tail of transformation. The poem is now in Moko Magazine's arms, "The Lagahoo as a Boy." mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/l...

Critical reflections on ethnographic writing and spoken word from the 'Imagining Futures in the Margins of the State' project. "Anthro-poets from East Port-of-Spain’s Yards: Spoken Word as Arts-based Methodology for Ethnography" iyaric.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/iy...

"Big Speech, Small Island: Tobago’s Speech Band in Spoken Word and Oral Traditions" was written as a correction of the record and of my own limitations. Big respect to the people of Tobago and their influence on the spoken word movement in Trinidad & Tobago. iyaric.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/iy...

You end up reading Rohlehr and Carter in winter. You carry bell hooks in your bag while walking through art galleries. Andre Tanker’s “I went away/ah leave and ah come back home” changed from a timeless song to a promise to yourself. Find your way. 📸: Helsinki Poetry Connection

Lecture to Alicia Haynes's undergraduate gender class at University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, March 19, 2026. The session was "Men and Masculinities: Creative Literature and Film." We did a review of Ravi B, Shaggy, Dexta Daps, Rebel Sixx and Roger Alexis' Santana.

Poetry reading delivered at the Book Launch of "Caribbean Men in the Arts: Demystifying Masculinities with Essays, Interviews, Poetry and Stories," edited by Opal Adisa and Dr-Keino Senior at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, April 1, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeAN...

Brief remarks delivered at the Book Launch of "Gender-Based Violence in the Caribbean: Historical Roots, Contemporary Continuities" edited by Dalea Bean and Verene A. Shepherd at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, March 19, 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm56...

Thank you Helsinki Poetry Connection for creating space for 🇹🇹 spoken word

LeBron James 28 8 7 🫡 Lord, bless me with longevity and the discipline for decades 🔥

Just finished watching the Ronaldinho documentary on Netflix. You get an up close look at his rise and the inevitable decline. You also see the power of his family. The scenes with his mother are moving.

Update 8:30pm: Found and will be reunited with family. ———————————————————

Greetings community. My family could use your help: if you have seen or have any information about Patricia D’Andrade, please contact TTPS. She is 92 years old. We are all hoping that she can return to her home safely.

Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2026 list announced. From the Caribbean region, we have 1 author from Guyana and 5 from Trinidad and Tobago out of 7,806 entires in the Commonwealth. Power to all the authors.

“Feminists have a political responsibility to critique the formation of new ideas that maintain old hegemonies.” – Eudine Barriteau (2003, 79)

In May 2026, a decade will have passed since the national discussion on ending child marriage in Trinidad and Tobago ignited. Calls to amend the Marriage Act alongside deep soul searching on various religious Marriage Acts were placed on the front burner.

I participated in a Roundtable for the launch of the IYARIC Journal Special Issue, "Rebuilding the Ruins: Contemporary Performing Arts in Latin America and the Caribbean," edited by Keisha Bell. You can get the full issue here: iyaric.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/iy...