For when we speak of colonization, what happened to the body is also what happened to the land. The Caribbean, the original home of the Tainos, Arawaks, Caribs, Kalinagos, Ciguayos, and Macorixes, often becomes flattened through the tourist imagination—reduced to postcards and brochures selling paradise. This erasure silences the resilience, violence, and histories of these lands and their people. Bony Ramirez (recently featured in our print edition and a past guest on Radio Juxtapoz) refuses this flattening. His work gives the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean at large incredible depth, complicating the outsider’s gaze while centering the narratives of Black and Brown bodies.
