“Is this paradise? Is our suffering worth the frolic on the beach and a few Instagram likes? Most of us never get to experience the world we have built for others to escape.”

The Bahamas re-opened to tourists on July 1. But, as Alicia Wallace writes in Momentum, the country’s response to the pandemic is a “clear reminder of the power dynamic that exists in tourism…For many tourists, Bahamians have no value outside of the labor they undertake to produce and maintain paradise”