Tweet The Racial Politics of Atheism | RD10Q | Religion Dispatches In the book I push back against the myth of the accessible American dream and look at the devastating impact that the recession has had on communities of color. I ask how one creates a just society based on the principles of anti-racist godlessness; [...]
Haiti: Interview with LGBT organization, KOURAJ
May 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tweet I recently met with Ernest Gaubert of KOURAJ Ayiti which is a grassroots organization with members in Cap Haitian, Gonaïves, St Marc, Port-au-Prince and Jacmel. It began as a social organisation Ami – Ami [friend to friend] in 2010 but the group soon realized they needed to expand to include advocacy around rights, access to [...]
A poem on the joys & freedom of getting old
May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tweet What Do I Get For Getting Old? [A beautiful poem by Alice Walker on the joys and freedom of getting old - I followed instructions and supplied my own photo - see Alice Walker's photo here] A Picture Story For The Curious ©2011 by Alice Walker (You supply the pictures.) I get to [...]
Profile: Soweto born soccer star, Phumla Rose
May 11, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tweet From Inkanyiso – Greeted with an everlasting smile by a body that doesn’t seem to age, Phumla Rose Masuku welcomes us to her home. Present is Phumla’s life partner Nombulelo ‘Bulie’ Vimbelela. For a person in her mid 30s Masuku expresses that she’s excited that she is ageing gracefully. She has always feared the age [...]
Haiti: Occasional Musings – 14, “the wasps have been knocked out of the nest”*
May 9, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Tweet UPDATE President Aristide today held a press conference in which he announced that Lavalas’s participation in the next elections – mobilization begins! Two years after his March 2011 return to Haiti, former President and Fanmi Lavalas leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide made his first appearance in public. President Aristide had been called to court by the [...]
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