Broughtupsy
Agnes Marshall
, Jude Castillo
, Crystal Inwood
, Mary Therrien
, Chantal Comeau
, Barry Kazimer
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Marilyn Stanley
, Sandra Furlotte
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Deb Philippon
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Dawn Macdonald
, Daniel Goldlist
, Tyra Antle
, Lynn Andrews
, Elaine Baptie
, Linda Leitch
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Carol Swaitkewich
, Holly Kennedy
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Andrea Pole
, Ariane Béland
, Holly Elisabeth
, Anne Baldo
, Natasa Ilic
, Deana Bueley
, Jocelyn Heisel
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Leila Grobel
, Sandra Perry
, Laura Patterson
, Brianne Tripp
, Noelle Walsh
, Laura Peters
, Patricia Johnson
, Anna Rybak
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Gabrielle Veilleux
, Shawna Moodie
, Ellen Clarke
, Dani Kat
, Olivia Henderson
, Paula Adam
, Alyce Soulodre
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Brenda Vaccarello
, Alicia Pratt
, Catherine Westerberg
, Kaisha Walker
, Janice Cournoyer
, Laurie Burns
, Kim Cappellina
, Lynn Bechtel
, Heather Belliveau
, Margaret McKay
, Ele Pawelski
, C. Ray
, Randi Ann Doll
, Lindsay Hobbs
, Jennifer Beyak
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Christine Lion
, Ken Gilmour
, Lauren Carter
, Tema Frank
, Irenee R Anderson
, Pat Johnston
, Prabh Toor
, Carl Scott
, Benita Hartwell
, Paula Ritchie
, johnna abdou
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Alex Henderson
, Penny Downing
, Caleb Nault
, Kim Patrick
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Sonia Adams
, Trish Bowering
, Wendy Houlden
, Lisa Mallia
, Joshua Lewis
, Joe Mitchell
, Andrea Gillespie
, Amanda Schempp
, P. Thompson
, Meaghan Hackinen
, Sonja Boon
, Cassandra AOUIZERATE
, Macy McCubbing
, Hoda Montazeri
, Karen Nordrum
, Sara Conway
, Ava Rahimpour
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Melissa Poremba
, Nada Loughead
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Akúa is returning home to Jamaica for the first time in ten years. Her younger brother has died suddenly, and Akúa hopes to reconnect with her estranged older sister, Tamika. Over three fateful weeks, the sisters visit significant places from their childhood where Akúa spreads her brother’s ashes. But time spent with Tamika only seems to make apparent how different they are and how alone Akúa feels. Then Akúa meets Jayda, a brash stripper who reveals a different side of Kingston. As the two women grow closer, Akúa is forced to confront the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family, and what it means to be a gay woman in Jamaica. Her trip comes to a frenzied and dangerous end, but not without a glimmer of hope of how to be at peace with her sister—and herself.
