Thoughts of a minibus traveller

  Image taken from Ego-Eco-Seva Revisted  by Martin Brown on Fairsnape Gay sex "We are human too" one woman said in answering why members of the LGBTIQ+  community should be concerned about the climate crisis and the environment. The Guyana Rainbow Foundation - Guybow- hosted a workshop which was facilitated by Sherlina Nageer. The theme of the workshop  was "Environmentalism and the LGBTIQ+ community"   The assertion that 'we are human too' is that all human beings including LGBTIQ+ humans are affected by climate change and the resulting climate crisis.  The assertion that 'we are human too' is important in country and region which does not value LGBTIQ+ citizens as equally human  as those who are not LGBTIQ+ (except of course for those people who have 'connections' to the power brokers). The workshop also discussed , in the line of 'we are human too' , the responsibilities to protecting the environment and recovering if possible fro...

Gay love Settling down with coffee and about to delete the mass messages and I see a hail up from a man, an intelligent man, and I not sure what to say in response because I aint able talk about who elections and so. The man though, is not talking about elections but his struggles with his sexuality and emotional attractions to other men.  And as far as I know, this man has been dealing with these struggles since the PNC was first in power, then through the PPP and now again under the PNC. But he says, he manages, everyone has personal struggles and this is his own one.. and while a lot of people anxious about elections.. gay love is on this man's mind.  And I imagine all the people at all the rallies, and in the lines to vote and on facebook flaring up.. do the elections provide some kind of temporary distraction from their personal struggles? Do the gay PPP supporters and the gay PNC supporters forget about their gayness and  homophobia and how the love is forb...

Afternoon of a Sunday which started with a lot of rain and there is a gathering of people to talk about  the right to dignified lives in Guyana.  Dignified life far from my mind as I choose a minibus with loud music so as not to be late - those of us who don't like noise often have to give in to those who believe noise with a deep pounding bass is part of the good life. But I choose my oppression for the short journey. Gays and the dignified life.. The Faculty of Law - University of the West Indies Rights Advocacy Project (U-RAP) j oined with Red Thread and other organisations to host the event. The constitutional challenge to Guyana's cross dressing laws provided the background to the discussion. In 2010, Candacy (Gulliver) McEwan , I sabella (Seyon) Persaud, Pheches (Joseph) Fraser and Angel Clarke with SASOD filed a constitutional challenge to the cross dressing laws in Guyana. In 2018, the Caribbean Court of Justice struck down the laws," stating “No on...

I did not vote in 2015 and will not be voting in the next General elections and people say that I should shut up. With all the interest in STEM and so on, and all the  Maths I did in school, apparently it is possible to write Constitutions and create Nation States so that you need 34 rather than 33 people out of 65 to form a 'majority'. On the day that the highest court in the land by a 'majority' said that what we learn in Maths and STEM and so on is not the same thing as in what is written in law, and that when you dealing with 65 people, 34 rather than 33 is the majority. On the day of the ruling, the minibus is driving on the parapet, playing loud music, school children inside , and trying to jump a traffic light. On the day of the ruling, another bus driver curses the traffic police.. 'good fuh yall, yall gah deh in de hot sun.. .. yall only harassing bus driver'... the war between some bus drivers and the police part of the division in the co...

Saturday morning. Baigan choka and roti at the roti shop on the East Coast.  Some mornings there is vicious cussing and so but it is a nice quiet morning . A 'gay' walks in.. (male to female transgender). Normal occurrence in many parts of 'rural' Guyana where there is acknowledgement that people can be different. A man in shades and with tattoos hails up and there is banter between the two.. the 'gay' playfully brushing his hand on the young man's head before going to eat.  Free space.   Saturday morning. Strange headline in the Chronicle " Can’t fight hate with hate — Simpson calls on Guyanese to reject Islamophobia.  There was a private function hosted by Scheherazade and Kashir Khan who have rejected the violence committed in the name of Islam.  The event was co-hosted with SASOD.   I know the Khan family and I do not believe they have to accept responsibility for anything that any other person does in the name of Islam. I was a member o...

On Thursday, 10 March, 2016 - residents of Subryanville hosted an interaction with candidates from Constituency No2 in the 2016 Local Government Elections. These are two media reports. From Guyana Chronicle 12 March, 2016 ((L-R) APNU+AFC candidate Carlyle Goring; Team Benschop’s candidate Jameel Rasul; Healing the Nation Theocracy Party’s (HTNTP’s) candidate Alfred Park; and independent candidate Albert Cromwell Kitty-Subryanville LGE candidates square-off — drainage, infrastructural development among priority issues March 12, 2016 By Ravin Singh KNOWN to be a constituency that is relatively quiet and not prone to many social ills, Subryanville and sections of Kitty are really still far from fitting this description. And with the highly anticipated Local Government Elections quickly approaching, running candidates have laid out their plans for the constituency, should they be elected to serve as councillors. Perhaps one of the more pressing issues in the area...