Lunch, Interrupted
I tried to make a simple lunch. Instead I found myself wrestling chickpeas, rotten produce, smoked salmon ethics, and the United States ‘saving’ Venezuela. Some days the world will not stay out of your sandwich.
A New Frontline?
The Caribbean is being positioned, by design, as the next geopolitical chessboard.
We can assume this is about democracy but what if it’s not and we just haven’t connected the dots yet?She was never just one thing. Part Two
She walks without a name.
These scrolls, these pages, this staircase—
they do not carry her footprints.
History forgot the stories, the voices.
But she was never just one thing.A History of Repeated Injuries and Usurpations.
America didn’t invent the game—it just refined it. The Union Jack, Stars and Stripes – the British Raj, Banana Republics, the blueprint was always simple: destabilize, divide, extract, and brand it as salvation, the tactics are the same. Uprisings are reframed as riots. Resistance is called terrorism. And when the people starve under corporate-imposed sanctions or coups, it’s painted as their own failure to embrace “freedom.”
This isn’t new. It’s just exported back home now. The tools that hollowed out the Global South have been turned inward. The surveillance, the debt traps, the poisoned water, the militarized streets—it’s coming full circle. The colonies are here now. And the illusion of democracy is the last pretty curtain keeping the house from catching fire.Apeel. Appeal
Freshness isn’t always what it seems.
The shine tells one story. The truth tells another.
This is preserved for your convenience. Or is it?Hope.
You are not wrong to ache. You are not wrong to rage. You are not wrong to still love this world anyway. There comes a moment when holding on costs more than the fall. So you open your hands. And you let them rise.
Martyr for bread.
Right to Food:
International human rights law affirms the right to adequate food as fundamental to human dignity. According to the World Food Programme, every single person in Gaza is now experiencing acute food insecurity. This scale of deprivation is not only a humanitarian crisis—it is a clear violation of that right. The ongoing denial of access to food demands urgent accountability and places a moral and legal obligation on the international community to act.Make America Great Again.
Hunger has never been about scarcity.
It’s about the quiet decisions made in rooms we’ll never see.
I sat in the silence—
and it sat in me.Split Reality
That split-screen reality. The tenderness and the terror, layered like sediment.
Your child is learning to walk while someone else’s child is learning to duck.
You’re washing rice in your kitchen
while a scientist who helped build death machines is given a medal across the ocean.
And yet, the mind does this thing— It builds walls around what it can hold.
It says: “Yes, the world is burning. But this mango is sweet.”She was never just one thing.
We’ve been taught to praise women for how they look. But what about what they built? What they birthed? What they broke through to survive? This piece honors the inventors—women whose brilliance reshaped the world, even when history tried to forget them.
