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“Needless to say our cultures and ideologies work on their subjects precisely to make fix only on those aspects of their own perspectives that can be...”
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Continuum is turning from watchable into a pretty good show.
It has really interesting ideas and just need more work on the characters and the...
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Goddammit, neither of you know me! You don’t know shit about me! You only see what you don’t want me to be, but I’m not him. Won’t be, not after...
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Makes me feel all nice n stuff
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Tribute to Salvador Allende and victims of the 1973 Chilean coup d’état in Santiago.
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“Inside the United States”
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12 Literary Quotes About Fathers
- It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest...
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“Obama reeks of a man who knows he doesn’t have to win another election. The capitalist in him is coming out without a filter now.”
Some of my writings:
Boys will be Boys? - a cultural power system of aggressive, sexist and structurally violent masculinity - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2013-01-21/boys-will-be-boys
Who will Guard the Guards? - soldiers on the streets with police powers of arrest – here http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2013-01-14/who-will-guard-guards
Warrahoon Masquerade - A Story about Amerindian Carnival in Pre-Columbian Trinidad – http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-12-31/warrahoon-masquerade
Political Jiu-Jitsu - An Anthropology of the Hunger Strike - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-12-03/political-jiu-jitsu
Level the Playing Field – Race, class and power through the lens of a football field in Westmoorings, Trinidad - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-08-13/level-playing-field
The Power of Men – Gender imbalance in senior positions at the University of the West Indies and its consequences - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-08-20/power-men
An Army To Protect Us – The growth, socialisation and development of white collar criminals - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-08-27/army-protect-us
Living Multiculturalism – An organic, social justice, and non-legislative form of multiculturalism in Trinidad is being eroded by the commodification of culture - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-09-10/living-multiculturalism
The Lottery of Life – ways to help people think through and understand privilege in society - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-09-17/lottery-life
Culture Change – What is culture? - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-09-24/culture-change
Equality of Opportunity – Gender stereotypes and the denial of equality of opportunity - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-10-01/equality-opportunity
T&T Multicultural from a Long Time ago – The “Pre-History” of T&T - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-10-08/tt-multi-cultural-long-ago
Jesus or St Francis of Assisi – The political sociology of what types of people become politicians and why? - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-10-15/jesus-or-st-francis-assisi
Friend of Enemy? – What do Obama and Romney tell us about the culture of politics more generally? - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-10-21/friend-or-enemy
Not what you Know but who you Know – Differences in social, cultural and economic capital, and how they determine peoples chances of finding work - http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-10-29/not-what-you-know-who-you-know
Talking the Taboo – the need for and importance of sex worker rights - http://guardian.co.tt/2012-11-05/talking-taboo
Thinking About Social Justice - what is social justice and why is it important http://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2012-11-19/thinking-about-social-justice
Full lists of my Trinidad Guardian columns can be found here for pre 3rd December 2012 http://guardian.co.tt/byline-authors/dylan-kerrigan
And here post 3rd December 2012 (they made me add Dr to my byline) http://guardian.co.tt/byline-authors/dr-dylan-kerrigan
