Ian Ramjohn

Reading Jak Peake's Between the Bocas: A Literary Geography of Western Trinidad provides a fascinating window on a world of literary history and criticism that I knew nothing about. Of course I knew about the existence of Ken Ramchand's The West Indian Novel and Its Background,

The Mask Comes Off When I Write - Jason Sanford There are some amazing quotes in there. Because of all that, I was taught to heavily mask. To hide who I was inside...And once I started school, I taught myself both consciously and unconsciously to mask even harder. After

This was an incredibly eye-opening read for me. I knew the mythical version of event wasn't true (I've learned some in the last decade or so) but so much of this was completely new to me. Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about

They say the Middle Passage is gone So how come overcrowded boats still haunt our lives* We've been reading about US attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific for two months now. And every discussion feels a little worse. The last few days the focus has

I've been deep in the process of drafting Wikipedia articles. I have a vast backlog of articles that I've started, but never quite got around to finishing and publishing to mainspace, so I've finally decided to do something about that. Clear some space. But

* Coldwater mayor: Honest mistakes led to voter fraud charges Joe Ceballos, the mayor of a solidly pro-Trump, pro-Kris Kobach town in Kansas has been charged with voter fraud and election perjury because he has voted illegally "in every local, state and national election since 1991". He claims it&

* South Korea’s Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster — Futurism In 2023 the Korean government launched a programme to create "AI digital textbooks". The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education said: “By harnessing the power of AI digital textbooks in our communication and learning, we can

Listening to Cory Doctorow talking about his book Enshittification (which I'm currently reading) on a podcast today. He talked about how publicly sharing his notes daily, and how that had shaped him. So why not? I've done it before, in a form. And these days, good,