In the most Rihanna way possible, sis made it known a few days ago that she was pregnant; she posed in an oversized pink Chanel jacket, which was left tastefully open to reveal her bump, and paired with baggy jeans, draped in jewels including an encrusted cross.
This past week has been awkward. My sleeping patterns have been misplaced and it felt like I subjected myself to an obscene amount of unnecessary screen time out of boredom.
“Black eye, black hair, black skin
Black queen stand majestic with the black king
Today I’ll sing you a black song, you need to hear about beautiful black things ‘cause
Most time we hear about black, we hear about black magic and black witches
Black list, black book, black market Black Friday, ya spend off your black riches
I’ve never seen a doctor in black nor seen a black pill fi cure no black people
But I’ve seen bush doctors like Tosh and Marley resurrect like a real black beatle
Malcom, Marcus, Martin
When you see Walter Rodney ask him.”
Seeing clothing by Trinidadian fashion designer Meiling gracing the pages of Harper’s Bazaar US this week served as a gentle reminder of the soulfulness that is the Caribbean aesthetic.
The period between the last week in September and the second week in October always feels like that interval between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day for me.
I celebrated 32 years around the sun last weekend. I consider it to be a massive blessing considering the state of the world and how many lives have been upended either due to the pandemic, increased natural disaster or political and economic turmoil over the past year.
I go back and forth trying to understand why Guyanese at home and abroad find it so easy to latch onto movements like Black Lives Matter, which originate in North America and the West with so much zeal and passion but find it difficult to draw similar comparisons to and act the same when incidents that bear similarities happen right here at home.
After taking a digital detox from Instagram for close to eight months, I reopened my account only to have it disabled for violating the community terms.
The act of being vulnerable is a daunting one. It is one that invites waves of fear, a sense of out-of-placeness and magnifies the possibility of it being weaponized.