Zahra Gordon

Blog Archive 2010-2020

  • !another madwoman ranting(?) about rAcE(?)!

    jotted down a few thoughts in a notebook while travelling week before last and i’m finally getting to put them up here. hopefully i won’t be guilty of belaboring a point. this may turn…

  • Madwoman Rant

     Photo from the T&T Guardian Ah hear a madman bawl as he spread out on a wallHe say, “Dis is it, dis is it, dis is it, I’ve been hit!No time to give…

  • Interview Fridays: Zeno Obi Constance Con’t

    Zeno Obi Constance Last month, distinguished Trinidadian author and playwright Zeno Obi Constance released a new book, The Man Behind the Music: The People’s Calypsonian, on the life and music of noted calypsonian Brother Valentino. Constance…

  • thoughts on black gentrification in DC

    a friend recently sent me an article form the Washington City Paper about black gentrification and asked me what i thought. here i go:  1. first off, the way i see it a black…

  • Interview Fridays: Zeno Obi Constance on New Book, Calypso & Valentino

    Last month, distinguished Trinidadian author and playwright Zeno Obi Constance released a new book, The Man Behind the Music: The People’s Calypsonian, on the life and music of noted calypsonian Emrold Phillip, Brother Valentino. Constance…

  • KAISO! (10): this blog is untitled…

    i have purposely kept poetry off this blog thanks to a certain level of paranoia. in a strange way, i remind myself of old masters (though i have not reached close to that status)…

  • KAISO! (9): ca’naval is cOloUR, ca’naval is HAIR!

    Carnival Hair on Calvary Hill, Port-of-Spain, 2011 all de bad talk i bad talk relaxed hair in the past (and probably present), i am in love with carnival hair!* something about the effortless pageantry…

  • KAISO! (8) ca’NAvaL is OVER! buT YoU cAN sTilL bLoG ABouT iT!

    Masquerader crossing the stage with Vulgar Fraction. The presentation was “Coalition” This was an independent mas band.  no one has to tell me what’s going on. carnival is over. auf wiedersehen. until next year…

  • KAISO! Part 7 (& de nex’ half): Mas Women

    Part 2 of the interview with photographer Leslie Robertson-Toney of Studio Lafoncette Photography on Mas Women  Do you ever get from behind the camera? (during Carnival that is). I occasionally party, however I find it…