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By Nalini Mohabir From George Village in the south of Trinidad, Andil Gosine migrated to Canada with his parents as a child, and now resides between the pull of Toronto and New York. Like his life, his...
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By Misha McGlown Working in embroidery, mixed-media illustration and collage, installation and even film, Swati Khurana explores gender, ethnicity, rituals and behaviors that are very specific to...
View ArticleGuyana/India | Gaiutra Bahadur Charts the ‘Coolie’ Woman’s Odyssey
By Grace Aneiza Ali Gaiutra Bahadur’s "Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture" is pregnant with questions, profound and equally haunting. And fittingly so. The saga of what a quarter of a million...
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