Sometimes writing. Sometimes riding. Always on the riddim as a decolonial badgyal. There's bliss in the tension just before the bass drops...🔊
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I am poem.
I am song.
I am a loaded sentence and a lyrical paragraph.
I am well-placed punctuation, necessary pauses, and the open space to breathe.
I am thought manifested and provoked.
I am real and fiction.
I am voice in rhythm.
Ask me if I write and the answer is yes.
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4 Nov 2025
So much happening here in Jamaica 😕 following Hurricane Melissa. Offering my field notes via a blogpost. isissemajhall.com/2025/11/04…
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14 Dec 2024
I wish somebody coulda told me that book writing is such a reflexive and inside-outing process. (These dub echoes are REAL!) As an outlet to tease out the more elusive bits, I’m back to blogging. Have a read ➡️ it’s not the soil – "write pon di riddim" isissemajhall.com/2024/12/14…
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6 Dec 2024
Pythagoras would have to turn ‘round, ben’ up, and curve to get anywhere in Kingston in any reasonable amount of time. This traffic is not normal.
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25 Nov 2024
Maybe im stupid (im not) but there is literally not a single thing id need chatgpt for??????????? like does it do the dishes?
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25 Nov 2024
So we just never found Jasmine Dean huh?
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26 Nov 2024
The haunting by the dead & the living, the exploitation of downtown girls by uptown men & downpressed mothers, the rebel joy of gully queens & the horror of anti-trans violence, the open secrets & bold denials, the pleasure & the sexism. Nuff tings! Ep 1 was 👌🏾. #GetMillieBlack
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2 Nov 2024
The Independent Commission of Investigation, INDECOM, is expressing fears that the country is on track to see the most people killed by the security forces in more than a decade.
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2 Nov 2024
Looking forward to reading the debut collection from @yashikagraham — a truly talented poet!
1 Nov 2024
Blouse & Skirt!! Thank you @bluebanyanbooks & my many teachers and supporters on this journey! Nothing like holding my debut poetry collection for the first time, knowing what it has taken from & given to me, knowing what a gift, what a love letter this is to me right now.
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4 Oct 2024
Questioning is not proof of distrust; it’s proof of critical thinking.
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23 Sep 2024
Not sure what all is in retrograde, but all kinds of wires have been crossed lately. I think things are finally starting to untangle…
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25 Jun 2024
Woman makes a parody of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" about being a mother. 🙌😅
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24 Jun 2024
🚨Submissions are now open for #AAIHS2025!
👉🏽AAIHS encourages conference participants to reflect on how histories of African and African-descended peoples from slavery to the present shape our present and futures.
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19 Jun 2024
When some of the execs asked me why I made Luke Cage a bookworm, this was why. The majority of brothers I've known who have spent time inside, and aren't recidivist, come out bookworms. That's why Pop was a fan of Donald Goines, where Luke liked edgy Detective fiction (Mosley, Pelecanos, Price) re: Episode 102.
19 Jun 2024
Birdman: "I got enough power to help y'all"
Inmate: "Ok, We need books to read"
Birdman: "You think reading books gone help ya.."
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13 Jun 2024
Is there a good movie that I can escape into? Taking recommendations.
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4 Jun 2024
🇯🇲 Roots reggae friends and dub loves! Can anyone tell me how we are pronouncing the title of Burning Spear's big chune "JAH Boto"? I cyaa overstand if it's "boto" like "beau-toe", nor can I overstand what "boto" might mean. (Surely it isn't meant to be bootoo/butu.) Help!
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3 Jun 2024
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
- Assata Shakur
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31 May 2024
It's the 🍿in 💺 for me! All love to the ones unkle G @Gavsborg and @EoinMacManus for this flirtation with real maraviolloso that is cleverly unruly. 📽 Check out "Popcaan Said My Riddims Aren't Good."
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