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Trini Trent 🇹🇹

@trinitrent.bsky.social

Trinidadian · Artist · Media producer · Host · Showrunner: MACO SOCA · I tell stories like your favourite tanty · Big links: https://linktr.ee/trinitrent

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Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

Reggae is considered Jamaican genre, although it is performed globally. It was developed in a Jamaican cultural context and is tied to their national identity. Soca is a Trinidadian genre created by a Trinidadian in Trinidad for Trinidadians. Others have added to it but the music is Trinidadian.

Calicious🧉🤌🏿@calishacold.bsky.social · last yr.

Just like people from the south don’t center NY when it comes to Hip Hop, I don’t center Trinidad when it comes to Soca.

Panyol 🇹🇹@panyol.bsky.social · last yr.

Someone knows it! Dr Carol James (Biologist, honoured for her contributions toward people-centred environmental management 🇹🇹) “Haven’t seen them for decades! They make fabulous smoothies and punches because of the sweetness. Great to purchase slightly turned so you can eat over a longer timeframe!”

Panyol 🇹🇹@panyol.bsky.social · last yr.

#Trinis especially … Got these in the Savannah Market. The vendor said they’re called Mataboro. I’d never seen them before but I was told native to 🇹🇹 I found them a tad too sweet for me. Do you know them?

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

Is there a university course on Mariah Carey? I think a study of her life and career as a case study of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality in American culture through the late 20th into the 21st century would be great. Mariah sits on a very unique intersection that hasn't been fully explored.

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

The challenge with how black music and culture is discussed in America that it often omits or ignores blackness outside of America or from non-African American communities. It also ignores the contributions of other groups of black people to African American cultural spaces (hip-hop, for example).

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

This is so well done! At first I thought the Red Wedding comparison was a bit much but the analogy really came together as the article unfolded. I particularly enjoyed the perspective on labour and its connection to party politics in the existing dominant duopoly! 🇹🇹

Ryan Cecil Jobson@ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · last yr.

My T&T 🇹🇹 election recap, “Red Wedding,” is up @CaribbeanClash. I reflect on the Dragon Gas fiasco, disaffected workers, and organized labor’s failure to chart an independent course beyond the two-party duopoly and the old politics of racial chauvinism. medium.com/clash-voices...

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

I have so many words muted on this app that the timeline is QUIET 😅 It also shows me that I need to follow more people who talk about things I enjoy. Because clearly most of the folks I currently follow don't. And that's no shade.

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

I heard the rumours of the Barbra Streisand/Mariah Carey/Ariana Grande collab back in February. But what I do feel even more curious about is the fact that Walter Afanasieff might be a producer on the album. If he worked on the song, it would be his first new track with Mariah since 1997.

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

Shout out to @markchappelle.bsky.social for writing this! I also enjoyed @discowallflower.bsky.social and @joshjenks.bsky.social talking about EV3 on the Part of Us En Vogue podcast. En Vogue's work past their first two albums didn't play often here in Trinidad but I know "Don't Let Go"

Albumism@albumism.com · last yr.

Is this your all-time favorite En Vogue album? If not, which one is your favorite? | Rediscover the album here: album.ink/EnVogueEV3

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

Many historical sites and important buildings in Trinidad and Tobago are neglected and falling apart. There's been good work by the most recent government but much more is needed. Here's an interesting piece by Jerome Teelucksingh newsday.co.tt/2025/04/24/r...

Regression is the new normal - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

DURING the covid19 pandemic, one of the popular phrases was the "new normal." Today, I wonder if regression has become our new normal.

newsday.co.tt

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · last yr.

When the bird app was taken over by EM, people ran to Threads and Spill. Then, they went back. When the election results were announced, they came to BlueSky. Now, they've gone back again. Why? I think they aren't willing to do the work required for change. They don't want to sacrifice.

Trini Trent 🇹🇹@trinitrent.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hi BlueSky. I've been thinking for months about how to approach this app; what to say, how to say it or if to say anything at all. Let's just say my time on social media has been...a journey 😅 But this is a new chapter and I get to create a new experience here. So hey! And Happy Carnival 🥰🇹🇹