· February, 2015

Stories about Youth from February, 2015

Trinidad & Tobago: Am Gay; Will Travel

  10 February 2015

What is it like to be gay in the Caribbean? The Travelling Trini occasionally gets emails from young gay Trinidadians who “have the burning desire to go abroad, travel, and see the world”. She deduces that this wanderlust stems from the fact that “the Caribbean is a incredibly homophobic place...

Natural Hair Gets Barbados School in a Twist

  4 February 2015

It's nothing new, but netizens cannot understand why natural black hairstyles are deemed so offensive to authority figures in the Caribbean. Could race, rank and personal grooming be so intertwined?

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