Enacting Epistemic Freedom
This conversation examines visual research methodologies as acts of epistemic freedom. Joyanne De Four-Babb reflects on Caribbean knowledge production, institutional research cultures, and how visual methods allow researchers to see beyond singular narratives of marginalisation.
Diasporic Storying – Autoethnography as Method
A reflective conversation with Archana Pathak on diasporic autoethnography as metaphor and method. The episode explores story, theory, and lived experience as relational, liberatory practices, staying with complexity, tension, and unansweredness across diasporic life.
Research at the Edge: Reflexivity, Risk, and Working with Women
In this episode, Deborah McFee and I explore the ethical and emotional complexities of researching violence against women in Caribbean communities. We discuss reflexivity, positionality, accountability beyond the field, and the moral courage required to work at the edge of trauma, harm, and community advocacy.
Emotional Justice: A Language for Racial Healing and Global Black Solidarity
Esther Armah and I explore Emotional Justice as a transformational framework for healing the emotional legacies of colonialism, patriarchy, and anti-Blackness. We reflect on emotionality as political, the cultural labour Black women carry, and the possibilities that emerge when we centre repair, accountability, and global Black love.
Mas and Memory: Performing Self and Diasporic Art-making
A conversation with Adeola Dewis on mas, memory, migration, and how Carnival performance becomes method, healing, and self-representation across displacement.
Mapping Memory & Grief – collective mourning as method
In this episode, Zaira Simone and I explore how memory becomes a form of resistance and how grief—personal, ancestral, and collective—functions as a methodology of care. We reflect on remembrance as practice, refusal, and political intimacy, and consider what it means to grieve together, honour lineage, and carry memory as a form of healing.
Water Knows the Way: Diaspora, Return and the Sea
In this episode of Saltwater Reasonings, I am in conversation with Adjoa Armah, artist, writer, and researcher whose work moves between Ghana, UK, and the wider diaspora. We speak about water, as body, boundary, and bridge, and how the sea holds memory for those of us whose histories are shaped by movement, rupture, and return.
Liming, Ole Talk, and the Politics of Listening
In this episode, Professor Camille Nakhid joins Saltwater Reasonings to explore liming, ole talk, and the politics of listening—unpacking how Caribbean ways of knowing shape resistance, relation, and care across the diaspora.
Reasoning as Method: Caribbean Epistemologies in Practice
In this opening episode of Saltwater Reasonings, I sit with Yentyl Williams to explore how Caribbean traditions of reasoning shape our approach to knowledge, scholarship, and activism. We speak about Frantz Fanon, collective responsibility, and the marks our generation must choose to leave on the world.