WI STORY DEM MATTER
Jamaican life,
told from inside.
Ordinary emotional stories held with dignity, tenderness and truth.This is not a collection of pain for people to inspect.
Yaadie stories are about recognition. The family argument that carried something older. The grief that became quiet after everybody went home. The man who learned to call every feeling stress. The child whose behaviour was trying to speak.
These launch pieces are Yaadie editorial reflections, not invented community submissions.
NEW EDITORIAL FEATURE
Letters We Never Say Out Loud
Some things we learn to carry long before we learn how to talk about them. Read Shell's first four letters, or begin one of your own.
Enter the letters room →THE STORY LANES
LIFE & FAMILY
The House Where Everybody Loves Everybody and Nobody Talks
Read the story piece →02 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONGRIEF & GOODBYES
After Everybody Carry Home the Food
Read the story piece →03 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONMIGRATION & IDENTITY
When Home Become Somewhere Yuh Visit
Read the story piece →04 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONLOVE & RELATIONSHIPS
We Love Each Other. So Why We Keep Hurting Each Other?
Read the story piece →05 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONWORK & COMMUNITY
The People Everybody Calls
Read the story piece →06 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONHUMOUR & RESILIENCE
We Laugh in Some Serious Places
Read the story piece →07 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONFAITH
Prayer and the Appointment Can Sit Beside Each Other
Read the story piece →08 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONMEN
The Man Everybody Calls Strong
Read the story piece →09 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONCHILDHOOD
Pickney Remember More Than We Think
Read the story piece →10 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONCAREGIVING
Loving Somebody While Tired
Read the story piece →11 · YAADIE EDITORIAL REFLECTIONLIVED EXPERIENCE
Sometimes the Person Knows Something the Textbook Doesn't
Read the story piece →HOW STORIES WILL BE HELD
Care before content.
We will not invent Jamaican voices, publish unfinished placeholders or turn somebody’s hardest experience into spectacle.
Stories should preserve dignity, protect privacy, keep cultural context and leave room for people to be more than the difficult thing that happened to them.
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