Owning Your Own

Home on the Waves

I grew up in the little apple. At least that's the English translation of the town Manzanilla. To get there you'd have to go to the far east of the island.

Queer in Nature

Who am I?

For as long as I can remember, I have always asked myself who I am, but it has always taken time to think of an answer that would define me.

Black in Environment

Goddess of Wind

The Goddess of Wind is one of four pieces entitled “Goddesses of Nature” created with acrylic paint.

 
 

Owning Your Own

Moving away from ownership of the environment in a capitalist sense and moving toward ownership that focuses on communal responsibility has been proposed to be more effective in protecting the local environment from degradation due to historical and social connections to land.

 
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Decolonizing Neo-Colonial Ecologies in Barbuda, Part I
Decolonizing Neo-Colonial Ecologies in Barbuda, Part I

…efforts are being made by the government of Antigua to dissolve communal land relations and to institute privatized land ownership to make way for eco-tourism and other development initiatives. This, as Naomi Klein asserts in The Shock Doctrine, is characteristic of disaster capitalism.

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Home on the Waves
Home on the Waves

The sea breeze stank with the aroma of rotted seaweed, piled on the eroded and littered shore. Dead fish and mutilated sea life were a norm.

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