Quote by Velma Pollard: “We build our altars in strange places.”

This powerful line speaks to the adaptability of human spirituality and cultural practice. It describes how migrants recreate sacred spaces and traditions, finding ways to honor their heritage even in unfamiliar lands.

As global populations became more mobile in the late 2010s, the practice of adapting and transplanting cultural and spiritual traditions became a defining aspect of diasporic life. This speaks to the resilience and resourcefulness of communities in establishing new roots while honoring old ones.

Jamaican poet, novelist, and scholar whose work explores Caribbean women's lives, language, and spiritual experience. Her fiction and poetry draw on Jamaican oral traditions and Rastafarian thought to articulate a distinctly Caribbean feminist voice.