When a child enters the world of realism and enclosure, he opens his eyes to the sparkle of hopes and desires, but his naivety shields him from reaching out to achieve those goals.
Category: Reflections
Thai Dessert and Bittersweet Memories
How a crisp pomegranate dessert became the gateway for cultural understanding and self reflection
Prayer
Prayer isn’t entirely about my own mother, but it is influenced by the many hurdles we have tripped or jumped over in the years we have been mother and daughter. It is also a song for those who have found it difficult to make sense of the relationships they’ve had with their mothers
States of Black
On being black on both sides of the Atlantic and diasporic rootlessness
Mickey Blue Eyes
Me cyan do de jamaican accent
Tibetan Fundamentalism
How the making of the Dalai Lama homogenized a religion
Brown Grrl M.I.A
The icon we needed growing up
Paris and the Tyranny of Values
How the promotion of majoritarian culture solidifies difference and why we need to liberate humanism from Western values
Forgotten But Not Gone
Street-smart rap from an incarcerated perspective
African Lockdown
Missed opportunities, clubbing and invasive bible studies