
04/08/2025
This time last year, I was ticking off a major bucket list item: playing mas in the Caribbean — and it was the best experience ever!
The costume and makeup, the body positivity and acceptance, the pure joy of partying with a group of like-minded women (many of whom I was meeting for the first time), getting intimately acquainted with rum punch, falling in love with soca, dancing in the rain, challenging my own assumptions about carnival culture, the joy of spotting another Cameroonian flag 🇨🇲 in the crowd and even seeing Rihanna up close — unforgettable.
I highly recommend that everyone experience carnival at least once in their life. I’ll totally be doing it again, God willing.
To all the carnival-goers in Barbados: Happy Grand Kadooment Day! Have fun on di road!
And to my people in Toronto — how was Caribana?
✨ Did you or will you be going to any carnival this year? 🎭 Did you play or will you be playing mas (wearing a costume)?