Afua Hirsch Instagram – A joy and honour to launch the British Virgin Islands Litfest 2023 with the incredible Marsha Massiah, founder of @bklyncbeanlitfest
and hosted by the award-winning poet, BVIslander, and my friend @richardgeorges
I have such reverence and devotion to Caribbean writers and storytelling, humbled to be in these spaces with so many greats
Conversations about Decolonising My Body are so unique here in the context of BVI which is effectively still colonised by Britain
I am finding BVIslanders proud of their identity, history and resistance against enslavement. The debate about decolonising here is a fascinating one, tinged still with trauma and anger at the devastation of Hurricane Irma in 2017, the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic whose eye hit these islands directly. Britain responded by offering a loan 👀
Right now that sense of unfairness is manifesting in BVI in a deep solidarity with Palestine. So many of us, to paraphrase Audre Lorde, write as warriors against unfairness and injustice in the world
Thank you for the beautiful space @bvi_lit_fest #bvilitfest2023
If you haven’t been here before, come visit these islands!
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Wearing @alemais.official
Styled by @melwilkinson1 | Posted on 05/Nov/2023 01:40:50
