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		<title>Rum and date rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brain exploded. Really? Show images of soaking wet, drunk-looking women, in a campaign that explicitly gives complete domination to the “you” to whom the ads appeal? What on earth were you thinking?]]></description>
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		<title>The Backpack Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free education is not free. Though in principle all children in Trinidad and Tobago have access to free schooling, not all of them can afford to take up the offer. Government already provides free textbooks, breakfast, lunch, and tuition, you might note, and it is up to parents to provide the other necessities for attending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The myth of having it all</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 06:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a debate raging on the Internet about the conflict between work and mothering. The debate itself certainly isn’t a new one, but in the last month it has coalesced around a long article published in July in the US magazine The Atlantic. In the article, headlined “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch this video.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 12:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New video by the band Buffalo and Back. Trini indie rock&#8230; rocks! &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Laird rocks. Totally.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my heroes is the architect Colin Laird. If you are a Trini and don&#8217;t know who that is, 1) be ashamed, be very ashamed, and 2) look him up. Colin Laird is an architect who designed some of the great public spaces in our country, including the Brian Lara Promenade, the National Library, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martyring our saints</title>
		<link>http://lisaallen-agostini.com/?p=493</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Verna St Rose-Greaves wasn’t the biggest loser in Friday’s Cabinet reshuffle; we were. Fired from the post of Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development, Verna’s only sin was that she was too committed to serving this country according to her conscience, by seeking to protect our women and children. Instead of being lauded for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking up about child sexual abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted here for some months, being more active on my Facebook profile page&#8211;which is now public and accepts subscribers, by the way&#8211;and my Facebook author page, which you&#8217;ll find links to on this blog. I&#8217;ve also started back my column in the Trinidad Guardian, and it runs every Tuesday. Anyway, the reason I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the life that is my own</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I picked up the Alice Walker collection of essays In Search of Our Mothers&#8217; Gardens and reread the very first essay, &#8220;Saving the life that is your own: The importance of models in the artist&#8217;s life&#8221;. I&#8217;ve read this essay before, many times, in fact, over the years since I first got the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the late Pat Bishop</title>
		<link>http://lisaallen-agostini.com/?p=464</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Pat Bishop’s passing leaves a hole in us. Not just the Trinidad and Tobago visual arts community, of which she was a significant part as a painter, or Despers, the venerable steelband with which she worked, or the Lydians, the magnificent choir which she directed from 1987 until her death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiphanie Yanique in her own words</title>
		<link>http://lisaallen-agostini.com/?p=460</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Caribbean Beat magazine features an interview I did with USVI writer Tiphanie Yanique. You can read it here. I&#8217;ve already written a bit about Tiphanie on this blog here, but it&#8217;s worth repeating that she&#8217;s a gifted writer and I&#8217;ve been privileged to do a little book tour with her in [...]]]></description>
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