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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 2h

Technically on a social media break, but nobody uses here that much so it’s a return to screaming in the void.

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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 7h

“We’ve never agreed with excluding any country,” said President Claudia Sheinbaum, confirming she will not attend the Summit of the Americas after the (U.S.-engineered) exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.

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The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com · 9h

Among the Creole families or Trinidad and Tobago, a magic is passed down that can transform a soul into a Lagahoo, a kind of werewolf descended from the loup-garou. To kill this person you must beat them with an anointed stick until they are black mists. #LegendaryWednesday

Art by Kong, who does great Caribbean folklore art, showing a wiry figure in a loin cloth with stringy hair, a skeletal dog-like face, pointed ears, gnarly clawed hands and feet, and the posing skills of a 90s parkour expert, ready to strike from a tree, staring at the viewer.

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Caribbean Cricket Podcast @caribcricket.bsky.social · 10h

NEW ARTICLE ✍️

Joel Bailey outlines the changes for the West Indies ODI and T20 series in Bangladesh

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Auguste gets ODI call-up, but Lewis and Joseph to miss Bangladesh tour • Caribbean Cricket News on CounterPress • West Indies Cricket independent news

West Indies travel to Bangladesh to try and earn some much needed ODI ranking points

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A. L. Dawn French - Author @dawnnbooks.bsky.social · 12h

#CaribbeanFolkloreMonth
Lagahoo (Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagahoo
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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 12h

Movements I am looking/planning to look at:

négritude, antillanté, créolité, noirisme, spiralisme

🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 12h

I have looked at literary movements in the francophone Caribbean specifically for how to read interreligious encounters (in literature) through these ideas.

I am now revisiting the francophone literary Caribbean - to better understand the work they were trying to do at their respective times.

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Angela L Rice @d0llar.bsky.social · 16h

U.S. sends naval fleet to Caribbean amid Venezuela tensions & anti-drug actions. Militarization in Latin America is no substitute for diplomacy.
#ForeignPolicy #SmartStrategy
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See all the ships that the US military has deployed to the Caribbean amid tensions with Venezuela

The US struck another boat off the coast of Venezuela, President Trump said Tuesday. Here are all the Navy ships that have been deployed to the region.

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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 16h

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Mystery Lady by Masego & Don Toliver on Apple Music

Song · 2020 · Duration 3:48

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 1d

Comics should come with the downloadable equivalent of closed captions — not an audiobook novelisation — so visually impaired people can enjoy them.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 1d

I think I’ll have to give it another proper listen. It feels experimental and rooted, which is sometimes good.

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Luke Landherr (aka Dante Shepherd) @danteshepherd.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

This Ninja Turtles comic from 1992 went more truthful and harder at Columbus than any American K-12 school at the time, and I still appreciate its blunt honesty.

Columbus did not discover anything. There were millions of people in 1492 who knew about te new world, the Americas, because they lived there. Native Americans lived here for about fifteen thousand years before the arrival of Europeans. Native Amaerican like the Arawaks, like those who greeted you when you awoke on the beach earlier.

Yes, but Columbus' time, it's still the age of discovery.

To some, it is also the age of collision, of great and irreversible change. You see, the Europeans unwittingly brought diseases such as smallpox, measles and typhus with them, disease which the natives had no defense against, epidemics wiped out entire tribes. In addition, the triangular route pioneered by Columbus, Europe - Africa - Caribbean - back to Europe, was the route then adopted by slavers.

Why slavery?

Gold. Many Europeans of the time were obsessed with gold. The Caribbean natives who survived the epidemics were taken as slaves and forced to labor for gold on their home islands, this virtually extinguished the Arawaks. As European expansion spread, slavery became a big business. In the years that followed, over ten million Africans were forcibly relocated, families shattered and spread across the globe. It was a pattern to be repeated elsewhere in the Americas over the next 300 years, of Indians being replaced by slaves...

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Emma Lewis @petchary.bsky.social · 2d

I am here. Talking about the #Caribbean marine environment.
#CartagenaConvention
#COP18
#Kingston
#Jamaica

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Maria Jackson 27 @mariajackson27.bsky.social · 2d

Capleton & Chuck Fenda Set to Ignite Limón Carnival in Costa Rica

Legendary Jamaican artists Capleton and Chuck Fenda head to Costa Rica for the 2025 Limón Carnival. On October 17th, the Japdeva Fairgrounds will come alive with powerful performances from these two international reggae and…

Capleton & Chuck Fenda Set to Ignite Limón Carnival in Costa Rica

Legendary Jamaican artists Capleton and Chuck Fenda head to Costa Rica for the 2025 Limón Carnival. On October 17th, the Japdeva Fairgrounds will come alive with powerful performances from these two international reggae and dancehall icons. Fans can expect a night filled with energy, culture, and pure good vibes as Capleton and Chuck Fenda perform their hit songs at one of the region’s most vibrant celebrations. This unique event blends music, Afro-Caribbean culture, and the festive spirit that defines the Limón Carnival. Tickets are now available at passline.com.

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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 3d

The Dominican Republic announced that Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua would not be invited to the December Summit of the Americas, which it is hosting, due to the “current context of political polarization.”

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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 3d

Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 21d

Watch the video of “patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family,” a conversation between Jacqueline Couti, Krystal Ghisyawan, Wigbertson Julian Isenia, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, moderated by Ryan Cecil Jobson and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.
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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 3d

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Bruises by Mortimer, Kabaka Pyramid & Lila Iké on Apple Music

Song · 2024 · Duration 3:53

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 3d

The older I get the more I forget how old I am.

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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 3d

On American numeracy and literacy in the war against Grenada - Dionne Brand

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🍉 General Theory of Curry Goat @coolieduppy.bsky.social · 3d

Impacts of the Grenada Invasion

Beckles, H., & Shepherd, V. (2006). Freedom won: Caribbean emancipations, ethnicities and nationhood

Brizan, G. (1998). Grenada : Island of conflict

Fergurson, J. (1990). Grenada : Revolution in reverse

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