Substack, UncategorizedVybz Kartel as a Feminist (…stay with me)March 30, 20260CommentsDancehall, sexuality, and the cultural work happening in a catalogue most people only hear as scandal. I get into arguments about this all the…
PoliticsThe Cost of SilenceMarch 30, 20260CommentsThe room is full and too quiet. A conference hall in Kingston, Jamaica. Restorative justice practitioners, scholars, people whose lives and work sit close to…
UncategorizedSometimes I am The ProblemMarch 4, 20260CommentsNotes from a public apology about accountability, harm, and learning to live with what you cannot undo. There’s a particular kind of certainty that…
UncategorizedThe Shape of TimeFebruary 4, 20260CommentsI’ve been thinking about love languages lately—not as a quiz or a taxonomy, but as something quieter and older. Where they come from. How they…
UncategorizedThe Question No One Should Ever Ask: “Why Didn’t You Leave?”February 4, 20260CommentsI was reading a thread the other night. A man telling a story about a woman he knew. A friend. He said she called him…
UncategorizedWhen the Bassline Forgets the StruggleJanuary 8, 20260CommentsOn reggae, resistance, and what gets lost when the music travels further than the meaning The bass came first. Low. Patient. Certain. It settled…