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Elton Johnson

Elton Johnson, 27, is a development communication and digital marketing specialist from Jamaica. His life is dedicated to using communication to improve lives through tackling discrimination based on gender and sexuality with a keen sensibility to how those are affected by their intersection with race and class. He is a pesca-ova-lactatarian and spends all his wakeful hours dreaming up stories that have a tendency to burst onto paper at the most inconvenient times. He is currently working on his debut novel Where Parallel Lines Meet.

Green Was the Colour of My Insecurity, Now It’s Pink

His country is the land of paradox and contradiction; where a frustrating government pleads for more productivity but can’t provide an efficient bus system to get people to work on time. Clifton—or the newly stylized Cliff, as his well-to-do friends call him—knows he should have been out of the apartment at least fifteen minutes ago if he wants to catch an early bus to get to work. He works doubly hard at his job in the ICT sector, which means he gives online technical support to people overseas. In his hurry, he pulls a T-shirt over his thin frame, only to realise it’s on backwards. He fixes it while struggling with his keys to lock the front door, then runs off before noticing that he’s left his phone and has to turn back.
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Issue 12, August 2018
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Elton Johnson

Elton Johnson, 27, is a development communication and digital marketing specialist from Jamaica. His life is dedicated to using communication to improve lives through tackling discrimination based on gender and sexuality with a keen sensibility to how those are affected by their intersection with race and class. He is a pesca-ova-lactatarian and spends all his wakeful hours dreaming up stories that have a tendency to burst onto paper at the most inconvenient times. He is currently working on his debut novel Where Parallel Lines Meet.

Green Was the Colour of My Insecurity, Now It’s Pink

His country is the land of paradox and contradiction; where a frustrating government pleads for more productivity but can’t provide an efficient bus system to get people to work on time. Clifton—or the newly stylized Cliff, as his well-to-do friends call him—knows he should have been out of the apartment at least fifteen minutes ago if he wants to catch an early bus to get to work. He works doubly hard at his job in the ICT sector, which means he gives online technical support to people overseas. In his hurry, he pulls a T-shirt over his thin frame, only to realise it’s on backwards. He fixes it while struggling with his keys to lock the front door, then runs off before noticing that he’s left his phone and has to turn back.
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Issue 12, August 2018
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