...Kerry White This essay tells the story of a caldosa (both a stew and the gathering where it is served) hosted in 2016 by a network of Black lesbian activists in Havana, Cuba, that took place on the morning after the Pulse massacre in Orlando, Florida. The author explores the caldosa as both...

... 28  archM 2009 • Terry Boddie   |  177 Ferry 178  |  The Residue of Memory Jumbie 28  archM 2009 • Terry Boddie   |  179 Flight 180  |  The Residue of Memory Pulse ...

... space. li- ke in Canaris Major where she is born. like Sirius rising. which i can feel like hori- zone. blowing in petals & pulses. blinding me w/its brilliance of oris . fuellin into my ears in a wide waste of words i have nvr heard of before. like speaking graffi- tti...

... for achy joints. What do we use here to heal residual trauma? After many years of mental tug-of-war, I have returned “home” to Dominica, land of sunshine, hurricanes, and volcanic energy. Living here, I feel a greater sense of belonging and connection to my drumbeat pulse. Nature lures me to the rusty...

... SX21 • October 2006 • Christian Campbell | 143 What the Vibe Is I will have to say, like water. When I do what I want to do. People come running but I tell them, Leave me, man, and go back to checking my pulse. In the mirror sometimes. My mouth. On the bridge of the song I see...

... of the instruments and voices to articulate the rhythm and the melody in dialogue, the call and response. : e sound engineer and producer (in some cases the same person) work to layer the instruments in an integrated fashion so that the “riddim” becomes a heavy rolling pulse infused...

... ey stand together in their distinctiveness. My hope, though, is that they may serve as an inventory—at once lucid and provocative—of what seems to me the still quick pulse of the intellectual and aesthetic imaginations of our Guyana. London—New York...

... in the wind at every sunrise. I believe you let them think you were dead to survive. In my story I am your long-lost granddaughter, stolen away by the writers of high school history books, the pulsing vein between us severed as I slept many lifetimes in a bed that was not my own, (story...

... and often anticompassionate ways, Muñoz found refuge in his resolute commitment to that better world, an enduring conviction evident in more than fifteen years of scholarship, his manera de ser , and the company he left behind. The pulse of these convictions is part of a revolutionary sensibility...

... into the Martinican native land, with the following particu- larities. Notebook is not a realistic, descriptive text, but there is nothing closer to the rhythms, the suffocations, and the pulse of that reality; it is not a text of triumphalist exaltation, and yet it was to become a source...

... , Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (2015); Double Dutch: Heino Schmid and Deborah Anzinger , National Art Gallery of The Bahamas (2016); and Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora , Royal West of England Academy (2016). In 2016, she completed a residency...

... pulsing through my room, a visible heartbeat, as water fills the drains, rivers, seas, and every living soul. Wood and tin houses wash down from their precarious stilts, but the children who used to call them home still play in the opaque floodwaters. And I, Kioni, which...

..., emotional, and physical. It is about sharing the experience of a moment, a pulse, a movement. It is about engaging in a form of sociality.18 The variety of contacts or public intimacies that soca artists establish with the crowds ranges from expressing together one’s sense of national belonging...

...Leticia Alvarado This essay is a brief reflection on Ana Mendieta's Silueta Series, the Cuban diaspora, Latinidad, and ultimately brownness, after the loss of José E. Muñoz. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 Ana Mendieta brownness Latinidad Cuba Me haces falta . The phrase animates the pulse...

... originality and idiosyncratic perspective, but it does mean that these should be exercised with a great deal of sensitivity and with a tuning in to the beat of what could be called the “collective pulse.” Th e bottom line is, Redemption Song does not speak to most Jamaicans. It does not speak...

... to the lingering questions of Non-Sovereign Futures . The first is the hideous massacre of forty-nine people at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida. In the wake of the massacre, media outlets struggled to make sense of the full horror of the crime, limited by their attempt to thread a needle through...

... the country into independence were it not for one fatal mistake: his misreading of the pulse of the masses when he called a referendum for federation in 1959, followed soon after by a general election. Michael Manley, inspiration for both Hearne and Meeks in the early 1970s, had a chance to make up for his...

... through which we might conceive of publics. Words that describe how people remember music certainly form part of that archive; dance floors let us see that the stepping and swaying and pulsing and shifting, the performances of gender or race or status or nation, the degrees of social transgression...

... in a country of black congregations, da odils and tulips in a land of ram-goat roses and Poinciana trees Their work re ected, in Manley s appraisal, nothing virile nor original, nor in any real sense creative and above all that is an expression of the deeply rooted hidden pulse of the country Manley suspected...

... all these disparate elements of distinct cultures jostling for space in the same geographical location, almost at random, suddenly synched to the same polyrhythm. Live, on the dance floor, bodies pressed together, immersed in sweat and the sound pulsing from the speakers, the listeners ceased...