#tumblr/Caribbean culture

[sexypinkon]

Sexypink - Repeating Islands News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts is such an intellectual and visual delight. Here is a look at one of the many great articles on the site.

#sexypink/Repeating Islands #sexypink/Art theory and practice #sexypink/Art writing #sexypink/Art articles #tumblr/news #tumblr/Christopher Cozier #tumblr/Caribbean culture #tumblr/Literature and Art

[tygerland]

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (1931, oil on canvas, 22 × 18 inches) by African- American artist William Edouard Scott.

#art history #black excellence #haiti #caribbean #culture #history #art #black history #oil painting #1930s #tropical #black tumblr #lifestyle #society #community #painting #black art #william edouard scott #blm #life #🎨

[astraphel]

On October 12, 1492, Columbus arrived on the shores of the Caribbean, the now-called Bahamas, and the Taíno people welcomed him and his crew with respect and great care. Their kindness was repaid with vicious cruelty and enslavement. 

The horrors of genocide left no one untouched on Turtle Island and Abya Yala, but the Taínos were the first to encounter this scourge. There aren't enough people who call them by name and claim a ubiquitous "indigenous peoples" encountered Columbus. 

Know and name the Taíno and the ways they suffered as a result of First Contact. 

And also the ways they have persisted and survived to this day. Check out the United Confederation of Taíno People (UCTP) / Confederación Unida De El Pueblo Taíno (CUPT) as a place to start.

The Taino peoples are not a monolith and include many different tribes and areas.

Image 1: Cristobal Colón, 1893 "La gran batalla que tuvo el almirante con el Rey Guarionex y cien mil indios en la Vega Real" | Wikipedia

Image 2: "Distribución de los arahuacos taínos, caribes y guanahatabeyes en las Antillas, en el tiempo de la llegada de los españoles." | Wikipedia

#indigenous peoples day #indigenous history #taino #tainos #taino culture #indigenous erasure #christopher columbus #caribbean indigenous #fuck columbus #1492 #ndn tumblr #ndn tag #ndn country #ndn #native american #first nations #turtle island #abya yala #indigenous people #indigenous

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Peaceful Sunday 💕 hope you all had a blessed day.

#me #caribbean #natural hair #caribbean women #caribbean culture #west indian #luxury #island girls #island girl #saint lucia #island life #saint lucian #blacktumblr #blackgirlmagic #tumblrgirl #melanin #instagirls #beauty #black beauty #black tumblr #tattoos #love #sunday vibes

[jaehoon-kim]

Cuba Libre cocktail. (2) Incheon, South Korea, October 9, 2022.

#Alcohol #Artificial #Artists on Tumblr #Bacardi #Ball Jointed Doll #Beauty #BJD #Caribbean #Caribbean Culture #Citrus Fruit #Coke #Cola #Cold Temperature #Color Image #Cuba #Cuba Libre #Cuban Culture #DD #Doll #Dollfie Dream #Drink #Drink Glass #Food and Drink #Freshness #Fruit #Ice Cube #Indoors #Lime #Manga Style #No People

[kay-ohh]

This heat got me 😥

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[dijahzahra]

Hi everyone!

here is a link to my blog where I do a lot of social commentary and also talk about my theatre and creative work.

Check it out if you can

#blogger #blog #black girls of tumblr #black history #caribbean #social justice #social commentary #culture #africa #african diaspora

[andthenlightningstrikes]

The correct way to stream Solar Power this summer to understand its greatness, according to me

Solar Power was a polarizing album the moment it came out. It didn't click with everyone inmediately, and I saw quite a few opinions from my girls on Twitter, Popheads and Popjustice that were disappointed Lorde wasn't able to reach the heights of its predecessors with this one, that she ran out of steam after Melodrama.

When it came out, I personally just took The Path, Mood Ring and Stoned at the Nail Salon and ran, and didn't care much for the rest because I didn't connect with it, it just wasn't as instant as Melodrama and Pure Heroine. It felt kind of flat…

And if you've heard the album, you get it in some way. But one thing you need to understand is that the person on Solar Power is now past Melodrama, they are now navigating a healing journey, and while they may still feel the wounds explored in Melodrama, they are now seeing things from the distance while trying to enjoy the sun and better themselves. It may sound flat for those looking the raging emotions we found in Melodrama, but after doing some growing myself and taking it with what it is, a guitar and falsetto led offering to sit on the sun with a blunt and reflect, I started to see it with another pair of eyes.

One thing about Solar Power is that its tracklisting may be tiring for some, when the slow tracks hit back to back it may feel quite monotone. That changes with my version of the tracklist:

Helen of Troy

Mood Ring

The Path

California

Stoned at the Nail Salon

Solar Power

Big Star

Dominoes

Secrets from a Girl (Who's Seen It All)

The Man with the Axe

Oceanic Feeling

Leader of a New Regime

Hold No Grudge

Fallen Fruit

That's the correct way to stream Solar Power according to me, if you give it a try maybe you'll appreciate it more and understand its mission, its greatness. Extra points if you're sitting outdoors and hitting the weed pen while you're listening, just to enhance your experience, concentrate, close your eyes and let the sun show you the path, let the solar power kick in.

Here's the playlist:

And while you're at it, here goes my interpretation of the lyrics of the songs and how they tell the story in this order:

"Helen Of Troy" starts the album with a single statement: It's time to give yourself a break, you've fought hard before. So hear it from the girls living in the modern world, the one's she'll introduce in the next two tracks. Let them tell you the story about their healing journey, how the Solar Power helped, maybe you can learn one or two twings from them.

And then come the girls: "Mood Ring" the girl Lorde had stated in her Newsletter that she's mocking, but that I think she resonates more with than she wants to admit. And that's fine, there's nothing wrong with reaching that part of your 20s where things get dark and hard to the point you have to get into wellness culture to see if you can feel the peace they brag they have, to see if you can heal yourself from the wounds the things that came your way in the past left.

Now it's time for the girl in "The Path" to introduce herself, she's the same girl from "Mood Ring", but older and wiser. She has accepted her past and is still looking forward to her own future and her own healing. And she's not the saviour you're looking for, but she wants you to look forward to your own future and healing as well, she hopes the sun will show us all the path towards our inner healing, towards lifting all the burdens we may have been carrying for a long time.

After this the girls/our girl will be meditating and giving us a back and forth of thoughts of her past experiences and her current hoping-the-sun-shows-us-the-path outlook of life.

"California" comes in, and its our girl reflecting on her past, stating the things from her past whereabouts and shenanigans she simply doesn't vibe with anymore, she has changed.

And it's time for "Stoned at the Nail Salon" with her reflecting on past heartbreak and hurt, telling you that time really does its thing and passes fast, and you don't even realize. So realize it, spend all of the evenings you can with the people who raised you. Enjoy your life with all of the little bright details you can spot. Enjoy it before it's too late… Or maybe don't take it that serious, maybe she's just being high and existencial at the nail salon.

However, do try to do your best to enjoy yourself and let go for a bit: head to the beach, try some drugs, allow yourself to enjoy the sand, dive in the water, come out, enjoy the feeling of the sun hitting your now salty skin. Feel it kicking in and don't be as existencial as she was at the nail salon, just breathe and enjoy what you're doing. That's the message of "Solar Power", the title track.

If you're not able to let go and start being depressed again, that's fine too. "Big Star" is our girl back to being sad, the 20s are hard no matter how far you're into your healing journey. 20s are a whole bunch of emotions. It's fine, allow yourself to feel what you're feeling, let it sink in.

And then comes "Dominoes" and she's feeling a bit better than on the previous track, yet she's singing about a significant person from the past, probably the one who hurt her the most, a past lover being now far deeper than her into their healing and bettering themselves journey. And yes, she may be bitter because of that. And yes, that is fine too: the songs ends as quickly as she gets over the bitterness and moves on.

"Secrets From a Girl (Who's Seen It All)" it's time for her to share everything she's learned so far, and that you probably already know for yourself and are hopeful for: It gets better. No matter how deep is the grief or heartbreak or whatever emotional turmoil you're going through: you're gonna feel it, let yourself sink in it for as long as it takes and then you're gonna get over it and walk the path into happiness and fulfilment.

"The Man with the Axe" is about falling in love and learning from it, accepting you were never a genious and you're continuously learning as you love your deepest. She's still sharing everything she's learned, now through the lense of romance and the way love shapes us.

Then it's time to our girl to unwind again diving in the water in "Oceanic Feeling", where she's feeling thankful as she reflects about her family and wondering that, if she ever has a daughter, she would be able to feel all the beautiful things her mother was feeling at that very moment.

It now feels like there's finally peace within our girl's heart. The album is fully realized.

But it's still a back and forth between feelings, just like the 20s are. And "Leader of a New Regime" it's a reflection on living out your days just like you wanted but maybe wondering in the back of your head if you're in the right path, maybe being afraid it would fall apart and needing to get distracted of that thought looking somewhere else, looking for a leader to guide you to feel right about yourself again. It's fine, you're human, and what has our girl taught us?

You move on.

And "Hold No Grudge" comes in to remind you that, you can now let yourself reflect on your past and wonder how things would have turned out if the hurtful things didn't happen, if things had gone a little different… Our girl herself is wondering, but she knows it's fine to wonder now: She accepted everything a long time ago and is thankful of the place she's at. She's come so far. She's holding no grudge, she has finally truly healed, the sun did actually show her the path.

And now "Fallen Fruit" closes the album with both girls from the beginning, the girl from "Mood Ring" and the girl from "The Path" joining to dance together in the fallen fruit, with all the other girls who came before them, with you and me who started with "Helen of Troy" and decided to give ourselves a break and unwind. The girls will walk together, now as one, to head into the future as they're aware it's time to leave into the next phase of their lives. But right before they leave, they'll dance again in the fallen fruit, they'll invite us to dance one last time with them.

And that's it, that's the album. I hope you now see it through another perspective, and I hope you and I get to heal and find ourselves to the point our girl Lorde has. I hope we gain wisdom and experience and learn to accept and enjoy life as it is. Now get up and do some stretching, enjoy the bright days, enjoy summer, the sun will shows us the path just like it showed her.

#lorde #solar power #melodrama #pure heroine #lordemusic #solar institute #pop music #music #Spotify #healing journey #self reflection #self care #healing #streams of consciousness from a nostalgic tumblr kid from the caribbean #marina and the diamonds #lana del rey #last.fm #pop culture

[hussyknee]

If you're dual citizens or parents are from different countries, please tag both. Include a cool fact about your country as well if you like. :)

(Tumblr only has ten options, so I've mostly divided the regions into Western/ non-Western.)

#usamericans are going to put their states instead of country in the tags and take years off all our lives‚ I know it #tumblr polls #tumblr culture #polls #world regions #cultures #diversity #knee of huss #asia #south asia #east asia #southeast asia #latin america #south america #central america #caribbean #oceania #aotearoa #australia #uk #europe #eastern europe #africa #middle east #north africa #west africa #east africa #central africa

[wizario11]

Indo-caribbean identity

I feel like indo-caribbean culture is very underrepresented. I never grew up with people from my exact culture. Plus most other Desi people just considered us not "Desi" I always felt odd because of this especially since I'm not just indo-trinidadian but Puerto Rican. My ancestors on my mum's side are from India and we're brought as indentured laborers after slavery to work the crops especially sugar cane. Most people are unaware of this history in the Caribbean and although its not the only history it's also just as important. When talking about Desi people don't forget about us who experienced diaspora.

#desiblr #desi tumblr #desi things #desi culture #indogirl #indo caribbean #mixedheritage #trinidad

[yaworldchallenge]

🇭🇹 Haiti

Region: Caribbean

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine

Author: Maika Moulite & Maritza Moulite

410 pages, published 2019

Original language: English

Native author? Yes

Age: Teen

Blurb:

Alaine Beauparlant has heard about Haiti all her life... But the stories were always passed down from her dad--and her mom, when she wasn't too busy with her high-profile newscaster gig. But when Alaine's life goes a bit sideways, it's time to finally visit Haiti herself. What she learns about Haiti's proud history as the world's first black republic (with its even prouder people) is one thing, but what she learns about her own family is another. Suddenly, the secrets Alaine's mom has been keeping, including a family curse that has spanned generations, can no longer be avoided. It's a lot to handle, without even mentioning that Alaine is also working for her aunt's nonprofit, which sends underprivileged kids to school and boasts one annoyingly charming intern. But if anyone can do it all...it's Alaine.

Other reps:

Genres: #contemporary #family #romance #cross-cultural

My thoughts:

Lovely cover!

Review to come.

Bookshop.org link | Kindle link

#haiti #ya world challenge #ya books #book tumblr #caribbean books #dear haiti love alaine #maika moulite #maritza moulite #contemporary #family #romance #cross-cultural #caribbean #diverse books

[sexypinkon]

Sexypink - Carnival in Basse Terre Guadeloupe - Mardi Gras de Fort-De-France which kicked off yesterday, Feb 21, 2023. 

Photography- Antoine Photo Bliss and others 

#sexypink/Carnival in Guadeloupe #sexypink/2023 Carnival #sexypink/culture #sexypink/festivals #tumblr/Guadeloupian carnival 2023 #tumblr/Caribbean carnivals #2023 #Guadeloupe Carnival

[galleryyuhself]

Galleryyuhself - A history of BATA and its establishment in Trinidad and Tobago.

From the Facebook page of Dominic Kalipersad - The Bata Company began exporting shoes to Trinidad in 1930 and two years later, it established shops on the island.Bata continued selling its shoes to Trinidad customers even after the Second World War, and the company ceased operations on the island in 1993.It sneakers, called Bata Bullets, were a hot seller for schoolchildren, probably due to the economical price, but they were not considered cool by the fashion-conscious.

#galleryyuhself/Bata #galleryyuhself/nostalgia #galleryyuhself/shoes #galleryyuhself/Bata Bullets #tumblr/Bata #tumblr/Bata in the Caribbean #tumblr/consumer history #BATA. #Bata bullets #shoes #history #culture #nostalgic #Dominic Kalipersad

[whencyclopedia]

The Ball Game of Mesoamerica

The sport known simply as the Ball Game was played by all the major Mesoamerican civilizations and the impressive stone courts became a feature of many cities. More than just a game, it could have a religious significance and featured in episodes of mythology. Contests even supplied candidates for human sacrifice and became literally a game of life or death.

Origins

The game was invented sometime in the Preclassical Period (2500-100 BCE), probably by the Olmec, and became a common Mesoamerican-wide feature of the urban landscape by the Classical Period (300-900 CE). Eventually, the game was even exported to other cultures in North America and the Caribbean.

In Mesoamerican mythology the game is an important element in the story of the Maya gods Hun Hunahpú and Vucub Hunahpú. The pair annoyed the gods of the underworld with their noisy playing and the two brothers were tricked into descending into Xibalba (the underworld) where they were challenged to a ball game. Losing the game, Hun Hunahpús had his head cut off; a foretaste of what would become common practice for players unfortunate enough to lose a game.

In another legend, a famous ball game was held at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan between the Aztec king Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (r. 1502-1520 CE) and the king of Texcoco. The latter had predicted that Motecuhzoma's kingdom would fall and the game was set-up to establish the truth of this bold prediction. Motecuhzoma lost the game and did, of course, lose his kingdom at the hands of the invaders from the Old World. The story also supports the idea that the ball game was sometimes used for the purposes of divination.

Continue reading...

#History #AztecCivilization #AztecSacrifice #Chacchoben #WHE #[ #]

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Throwback BTS some of my modeling stills in HK 🇭🇰

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[jaehoon-kim]

Tequila Sunrise. (2) Incheon, South Korea, October 22, 2022.

#AK-47 #Alcohol #Artificial #Artists on Tumblr #Ball Jointed Doll #Beauty #BJD #Caribbean #Caribbean Culture #Citrus Fruit #Close-up #Cocktail #Color Image #DD #Doll #Dollfie Dream #Drink #Drink Glass #Food and Drink #Freshness #Fruit #Garnish #Ice Cube #Indoors #Ingredient #Jose Cuerbo #Manga Style #Mexico #Miniature #No People