CARIBBEAN SERENADE – ISSUE I

Fashioned for the Socially Free

This debut issue is a love letter to the Caribbean woman — her journey, her memories, her fire.

It reminds me of my own humanity, which at times hangs by a thread.

I return to this issue when I’m in rare form — purging my pain, my rage, my resistance against a black-and-white world that rarely makes space for nuance.

Hell hath no fury…

But even in that fury, we honor the host of this story — the inspiration, and perhaps the guiding force that has quietly pushed me into the light. The same woman who saved me before I knew I needed saving.

You were always right, Mommy.

Caribbean Serenade honors the legacy of migration and the quiet power of survival.

Rooted in culture, wrapped in strength, this issue reclaims space — not through noise, but through grace.

The Quiet Storm

She left paradise for possibility — and carried both on her back. Caribbean Serenade is her story in still frames.