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    [Podcast] Writing Home: American Voices From The Caribbean
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Aug 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    [Podcast] Writing Home: American Voices From The Caribbean

    Small Axe editorial committee member Tami Navarro and archipelagos editor Kaiama L. Glover co-host Writing Home, a weekly podcast about t...
    Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jun 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Excerpt: "A Little Patch of Something"

    By Imani Perry Excerpted from The Paris Review I’m growing microgreens. Every couple of weeks they are sufficiently lush to be snipped an...
    Derek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as Prayer
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jan 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    Derek Walcott: Love After Love and Poetry as Prayer

    Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will...
    Recipe + Ritual: Haitian Soup Joumou
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Dec 29, 2019
    • 1 min

    Recipe + Ritual: Haitian Soup Joumou

    Soup Joumou, also known as the Haitian Independence Soup, is a hearty pumpkin (or squash) soup that is traditionally served on January 1...
    A Celebration of Parang: The Indigenous Sounds of Trinidad & Tobago
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Dec 1, 2019
    • 0 min

    A Celebration of Parang: The Indigenous Sounds of Trinidad & Tobago

    Before.
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Sep 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Before.

    The first text I dashed off to my mom and brother right before I walked in to the Goombay Festival for Junkanoo was "I am Bahamian now." ...
    Summer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jun 23, 2019
    • 0 min

    Summer Reading: "The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution"

    Natural Wonder: Three Days of Wellness in Aruba
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jan 30, 2019
    • 3 min

    Natural Wonder: Three Days of Wellness in Aruba

    Aruba is rugged and vibrant – decadent in some places and quiet when it needs to be. There’s the healing sun, sand and sea and there’s al...
    Wellness Retreats: Moving in the Direction of Healing
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Oct 15, 2018
    • 4 min

    Wellness Retreats: Moving in the Direction of Healing

    Lately, I've been burning some incense that I was gifted by the ila spa in Antigua … I still carry with me the words my therapist spoke t...
    Try This: How Grenada's Spice Market Inspired My 'Turmeric Salve' Concoction
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Sep 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    Try This: How Grenada's Spice Market Inspired My 'Turmeric Salve' Concoction

    One of my main objectives when I visited the "Spice Island" of Grenada was to return with a haul of seasonings and spices. At Grenada's S...
    Final Day in Barbados: Bussa's Rebellion
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jul 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    Final Day in Barbados: Bussa's Rebellion

    Very early in the text “Intellectual Warfare” the late Jacob Carruthers wrote about how Jamaican-born Dutty Boukman made his way to Haiti...
    Day Two in Barbados: Oistins Everyday
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jul 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    Day Two in Barbados: Oistins Everyday

    No, it wasn't Friday night, but yes, we were "liming" at Oistins, on a Thursday while the sun was high. The selection: Fried Flying Fish ...
    Day One: Beautiful Barbados
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jul 11, 2018
    • 1 min

    Day One: Beautiful Barbados

    Regrettably, I didn't take many (any?) pictures of the Barbados countryside and towns when I visited seven years ago. So, I have had to d...
    Recipe: Sofrito + Arroz Con Pollo
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • Jul 9, 2018
    • 2 min

    Recipe: Sofrito + Arroz Con Pollo

    Ever since my travels to the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica, and my frequenting of Atlanta's best Colombian food restaurant (Las Delic...
    Notes on "Going Home"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • May 13, 2018
    • 2 min

    Notes on "Going Home"

    I grew up between parched Southern Cali suburbs and maternal and paternal immediate and extended family in Jamaica. I was exposed to rura...
    "Up Country": Bois Content, Jamaica
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • May 13, 2018
    • 3 min

    "Up Country": Bois Content, Jamaica

    "Oh, let's go back to the start." We are, and have always been, on African time. The practice of mourning infused with the celebration of...
    Set Apart In St. Barth
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • May 6, 2018
    • 3 min

    Set Apart In St. Barth

    There are some travels that change you. Some change the way you measure time, space, even distance. Others recalibrate your senses, birth...
    GoldenEye: "The Peace And The Drama"
    Kamille D. Whittaker
    • May 6, 2018
    • 3 min

    GoldenEye: "The Peace And The Drama"

    My mother’s family hails from Bois Content, Jamaica in the hills north of Old Harbour Bay, on the South Coast of the island. My father li...
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