Anibal Quijano (31 May, 2019) and Toni Morrison (5 August, 2019), two great thinkers have gone.

Nicolette Bethel’s 1990 play, “Powercut”, produced and performed at the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts, shows what happens in the dark. Nowadays, lights drop into darkness at least once a day for hours at a time. The violence of structures invisible to the naked colonized eye is only ever gossiped about. We are afraid to cease being what we are not, we do not know how to be who we are. It is the culture of violence and silence revealed through “discussions” around tourism and prostitution, two interlocked economies of pleasure. The Victorian Bahamas avoids discussing these things in the same breath, yet the exoticization and tropicalization of space and place speaks to a reality of total erasure of self for what we are not, to pick up on Quijano’s statement.

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