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Alyssa A. L. James, PhD @colibriphd.bsky.social · 8d

My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!

Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!

Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 20d

At long last, the new edition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Peasants and Capital is slated for a November print release. An open access PDF will be made available after the initial print run, so please recommend to your library or purchase a copy if you can. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · 21d

patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family
A SMALL AXE @smallaxeproject.bsky.social VIDEO

Contributors
@doctorjc.bsky.social
Krystal Ghisyawan
@julianisenia.bsky.social
@larrylafountain.bsky.social

Moderated by
@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social @vanessayperez.bsky.social

smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Aug 13

Perfect timing if you’re still looking for a (digital) copy of my book. 🙏🏽

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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our spring issue is out! The issue, the first under the new editorial leadership of Christen Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson, features beautiful cover art by Madjeen Isaac and articles on Black geographies, queer Black hip-hop discographies, and state violence and “witch talk” in the DR.

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transformanthro.bsky.social @transformanthro.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our first issue under the editorial leadership of Christen A. Smith and Ryan Cecil Jobson begins with a letter to our readers marking a new chapter for the journal and grappling with the “struggle for liberation” that is the “very foundation of Black anthropology.”

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Jul 5

📣 New Podcast! "5 July 1934: Couva Plantation riot" on @Spreaker #black #history #trinidad

5 July 1934: Couva Plantation riot

Mini-podcast about an event on this day in working class history. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory. - https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/no-beer-no-work - See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today - Browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date - Check out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.com - Check out books, posters, clothing and more in our https://shop.workingclasshistory.com - If you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast. Acknowledgements - Written and edited by Working Class History. - Theme music by Ricardo Araya. Check out his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@peptoattack

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Jun 4

You can also read our inaugural editorial as Christen and I begin our three-year term at the helm of the journal. Stay tuned for the fall and beyond! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

To the Readers of Transforming Anthropology | Transforming Anthropology: Vol 33, No 1

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Jun 4

The spring issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social —and debut issue with my coeditor Christen Smith—is out! Read for articles on Black geographies, state violence in Haiti/Quisqeya, and queer hip hop genealogies. Thanks to Madjeen Isaac for the cover art! www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · May 8

“Foenem on that Popemobile”

Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · May 8

if South Side was still on the air, there would need to be a pope episode

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · May 8

Yes, the Red Wedding is an extended metaphor here (but it was a lashing, indeed)! And plenty more to mull over on the common frustrations across Tobago and the southwest peninsula.

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Trini Trent 🇹🇹 @trinitrent.bsky.social · May 8

This is so well done!

At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded.

I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹

Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · May 6

My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · May 7

PNM red, oui

Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you, Matt. Hope you’re well, too!

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Matt Bishop @matthewlbishop.bsky.social · May 7

Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social

medium.com/clash-voices...

Red Wedding: Trinidad and Tobago After Keith Rowley

Ten years after working people brokered a marriage of convenience with Rowley and the PNM, this red wedding ended in a political bloodbath.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · May 6

Thank you, Dylan. That means quite a lot coming from you. 🙏🏽

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · May 6

My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Apr 28

Tomorrow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie. Upstate fam—come through for a book talk and a T&T election debrief fresh from today’s polls.

⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Apr 27

Me and Kartel go way back. 🙌🏽

Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Apr 27

Thank you, World Boss, for ranking me on your list of favorite Caribbean intellectuals. 🙏🏽

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Apr 24

“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”

Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛

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Poetry Written in the Margins of a Visa Application

reading Linzey Corridon at the intersection of border bureaucracy and soft cultural memory

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Apr 3

Soon 🙏🏽

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Mar 5

Friday!

Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain.bsky.social · Mar 5

Conversation on @smallaxeproject.bsky.social Keywords project: patería, makoumé, kambrada, friend & family.

With @doctorjc.bsky.social, Krystal Ghisyawan, @julianisenia.bsky.social, @larrylafountain.bsky.social, @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social & Vanessa Pérez-Rosario.

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Feb 26

Some of you may recognize elements of this story as the inspirations for my short work of fiction, “Pork,” from @PreeLit. Now you can hear it from the man himself! t.co/aYpQXJdYHD

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · Feb 26

My father’s story about class, color, currency, and (anti)communism in the Jamaican 1970s is now the subject of a Storyworth podcast episode. Grateful for the opportunity to be in conversation with my Dad on this chapter in Caribbean history. t.co/157jzXndk1

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