Thank you Cryn Johannsen, Roz, We left the USA for Panama🇺🇸🇵🇦, An Mcgreevy, Will Fullwood, Randal Hendee, for tuning in!
I absolutely loved this conversation with Deidre! We dug into:
How Deidre and her family chose Barbados for their new home
The legacy of colonialism in Barbados being visible on the landscape and embedded in cultural formalities
The influence of religion, and how it does and doesn’t show up politically
The most fabulously amazing Prime Minister Mia Mottley and her common-sense, solidly progressive, brave positions and policies (Check out this video Deidre shared of Trevor Noah interviewing PM Mottley:
The relative underpopulation of Barbados and recruitment of immigrants; the effect of less environmental destruction from overdevelopment, dearth of the “expat bubble”
The particular way that gender norms play out in Barbados and the Caribbean, and their origins and influences
The reception of LGBTQ+ people in Barbados and the Caribbean more widely, and its variation and linkages to colonial Christian influence
This list of main points was generated entirely by my own brain without the assistance of AI, because I think it’s important to still be able to do that, and because I never use AI to write. I’m not virtue signaling (or maybe I am), but I AM noting that I put work in. That should count for something, amirite?
This clip right here was everything, though. Everything.
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