You know a country by how it treats its most vulnerable: its children, its seniors, its 'differently abled', its 'minorities', its natural environment - including its animals. Shame on us all, mostly for permitting so many governments and political parties to get it so, so wrong for so, so long. Shame. Shame. Shame. The Dangerous …
Continue reading Trinidad’s ‘Dangerous Dogs’ act and what it says about us
"Tomorrow, Facebook will change its privacy settings to allow Mark Zuckerberg to come into your house while you sleep and eat your brains with a grapefruit spoon. To stop this from happening go to Account> Home Invasion Settings> Cannibalism> Brains, and uncheck the “Tasty” box. [He will also charge you $$$ for the pleasure.] Please …
I'll start with "artiste", because its senseless use is far more tangible to me, while I entertain that there may be some sort of rationale for the employment of the term "master artist" that I have not yet encountered. Let's start at the beginning. Trinis have this thing where anybody who is a performer of …
I have a kind of psychic claustrophobia. A fear of anything that confines me to a prescribed amount of space in the world. Labels, check-boxes, baggage, stuff like that. I'm so averse to it I wrote a one-woman play (soap box) about it called, appropriately, Pack Light. Trinidad is so small that no matter what school you went to, …
Originally published on AfterEllen.com, April 17th 2004 Wasn’t it just the other day that I was sitting in front of my television in that semi-vegetative state and across one of those sexy The L Word promos? Since then, the show has drawn legions of fans and detractors within its broad cross-section of straight, gay, male …
Continue reading The Final Frontier? Candace & queer women of colour on The L Word (2004)
Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2003-04 “Psssst! Red gyal! Spanish!” After “family”, those are the greetings I most often get from our always-friendly Trini male population. You may accuse them of being boldfaced, but you can’t say they don’t have a strong grasp of Trini ethnography. Brown skin and curly hair, …
Caroline Taylor 