BCLF Always LIT

BCLF Always LIT is a podcast by the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. The Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival is the first literary festival dedicated to Caribbean literature in New York City. In ‘Always LIT’ you’ll hear vibrant conversations about Caribbean storytelling and Caribbean writing from iconic and emergent Caribbean writers, poets and creatives. In addition, you can enjoy recordings of live BCLF events.

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BCLF Always LIT

Pelau Protocols

October 22, 2020 • Season 1 • Episode 2

Pelau aka Rice and Peas aka Cook up aka Peas and rice.

The combination of peas and rice is diasporic in the tropics. Every Caribbean nation has some version of such a dish enshrined as at least one of its national dishes.

What does this dish symbolize about all we've adapted and what we've lost. And how might we build an understanding of (Black) Caribbean masculinity and a fight to revolutionize it – which is also to reclaim its divine feminine.

Hosted by Roger Bonair-Agard & Kevin Adonis Browne, who are joined by panelists:

Ernesto Quiñonez (PR)
Richard Georges (USVI)
Dmitiry Leger (Haiti)

This discussion features a panel of Caribbean men in the encounter, confront, and de/reconstruction of their masculinity; and how we hold one another in that transformational journey of justice, in a way that lets us bring us all on that evolutionary journey.

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