Wearing colorful costumes at Caribbean carnivals isn’t just for women — but the gender politics are more complicated than ever — Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com. With the sweet sound of soca as their backdrop, Caribbean carnivals roll through the region’s various islands each year, each one a multiday blur of revelry, libations… and feathers. So many…

Toronto’s Little Jamaica finally gets its literary moment — The diasporic experience is one of give and take. It’s a stifling dance between not being quite like here or there, made even more complicated by the typical exhaustion transitioning from childhood to adulthood brings. …