With special features: memoirist Camille U. Adams and pannist Jahlani Andrew Roberts
Date and Time: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 7-9 PM
Venue: Antigua and Barbuda Progressive Society (12 W 122nd Street, Harlem, NY)
RSVP Jee at jkoh@singaporeunbound.org to reserve a seat.

Along the shoreline, rubber trees—or their remnants—bristle against a tangle of tropical foliage. On the street, a mélange of words and music; a single sentence conveys the rhythm of three or four languages. We find ourselves in the Southeast Asian or Caribbean Archipelago, both regions shaped by indigenous perseverance, histories of migration, vocabulary of the tropics, ruptures of slavery and colonialism—and the negotiation and reconstitution that came afterwards. 

Join Sharmini Aphrodite (SUSPECT Editor-in-Chief), Camille U. Adams (How To Be Unmothered), and pannist Jahlani Andrew Roberts to celebrate the launch of SUSPECT journal’s portfolio of writing and art on the theme of “Archipelagic Entanglements” from both regions. Words, music, and food will be served.

Dr. Camille U. Adams is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Camille is the author of How To Be Unmothered: a Trinidadian memoir which has been recognised by Restless Books Prize in New Immigrant Writing 2023, by Electric Literature’s Best of 2025 Nonfiction List, and by CLMP Most Celebrated of 2025. 

Sharmini Aphrodite was born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, and grew up in Johor Bahru. She is the editor-in-chief of SUSPECT, Singapore Unbound’s journal of Asian literature and art. The Unrepentant is her first longform work, and she is currently working on a novel that brings her back to Sabah.

Jahlani Andrew Roberts