The February issue of sx salon is now available, featuring new poetry, interviews with Evelyn O’Callaghan and Caryl Phillips, reviews and a discussion on “Haiti: Living In-Between” with pieces from Colin Dayan, Martin Munro, Edwidge Danticat and Roxane Gay. You can access the issue through this link: sx salon, issue 8 (February 2012) Introduction and Table…
Here is a call for papers for the conference “Rasanblaj Fanm: Stories of Haitian Womanhood, Past,Present and Future,” to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom, July 10-12, 2024. This event marks 220 years of Haitian independence, 200 years since Marie-Louise Christophe, first and only Queen…
The problem, which affects one in 500 children in Britain, occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks cells in the pancreas, stopping it from producing the hormone insulin.
Mahn Singh is the first British child to be part of a trial for a new drug, teplizumab, which blocks the immune system malfunction that destroys insulin-producing cells and causes type 1 diabetes.