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The Mongoose Chronicles

Black, Caribbean, liberal observations on the strange habits of an overfed generation. On economics, feminism, feminist economics, the arts, fashion, sport, beauty, food and whatever else is left.
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Author: Mar C.
More from Author: Rogue economist escaped to the bright side. Writer, talker, dancer, songwriter, singer, walker, runner, roamer, cook. Fierce lover of family and friends. Lover and defender of my womanness, Africanness, my Caribbean heritage, my Barbados, my right to take up my space and protect our space.
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The houses that slavery built

Feb 4, 2010
There is a thing happening now that is confusing to me. Perhaps you can help me understand it. The Barbados National Trust is a local charity concerned with "the preservation of places of historic and architectural interest or of natural beauty and...

In which I run out of ways to caption the inferior reporting of the media on intimate partner violence

Jan 31, 2010
In a post last March, I wrote this: Ok, I promise that someday I'm going to stop being annoyed by the idiotic ways in which journalists write about violence against women, but apparently today is not that day. Well, neither is today. In fact, I lied...

Another shoe etiquette standoff. This time with fancy font

Jan 29, 2010
So this post at Gawker almost inspired me to email Brian Moylan to inform him that I wrote pretty much this exact post a year ago. "Ha! We have the same brain! You should hire me at Gawker and pay me lots of money!" But I did not. I was, however,...

Whose flesh?

Jan 25, 2010
This post at Shakesville reminds me of a conversation I recently had with a friend regarding the flesh-coloured crayon in the Crayola box. (Wikipedia tells me that Crayola changed their 'Flesh' to 'Peach' in 1962, but I was born almost 2 decades later,...

Jazz on the Hill Robin Thicke in The Champagne Room

Jan 25, 2010
So remember I said I would review the second jazz event I went to, Jazz on the Hill featuring Robin Thicke? Well, it turns out I don't have much to say, but I made the commitment, so I aim to follow through. It also turns out that the performer who...


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  An interesting & forthright perspective on issues that are too often neglected.
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