Unfortunately much reprehensible if contradictory practice can be
explained away and even justified by academia. Interesting is the space
which by your report homosexuals have been allowed in Jamaican
society - on the periphery, as long as we do not engage in societal
discourse...one can add to that, the spaces reserved for minstrels and
madmen..actually often not very far from the spaces which academics
are allowed to occupy.
But human rights are inalienable, and indivisible - surely they should
neither be provisional, abrogated, nor arrogated to the periphery of
societal discourse or disputation.
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Form is the song, no meaning but
the act, all our intentions
comprehended in the way
we touch key after key and
hesitate - those intervals between
loving and loss. A shape
becomes, licks at the wood,
dissolves.
Dennis Scott : Piano Lesson
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