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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 99–114.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ana-Maurine Lara Drawing on the strategies employed by LGBT activists in the Dominican Republic, this essay seeks to theorize how strategic universalisms are mobilized as a form of agentive sociopolitical action. Delineating how universalization has historically been a tool of Catholic coloniality...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Rachel Afi Quinn Openly gay, white, wealthy business leader James “Wally” Brewster was appointed in 2013 by the Barack Obama administration to serve as a US ambassador to the Dominican Republic in order to advocate for the rights of LGBT Dominicans. Brewster’s presence remained controversial...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Jocelyn Fenton Stitt In 2009, during a period of intense debate surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Jamaica, Staceyann Chin published the first memoir of growing up lesbian in Jamaica. While Chin's lesbian identity is a major theme of the text, also important...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... and presence of LGBT organizations and representations in the twenty-first century that raise important questions about how Dominican cultural norms interact with broader global strategies of “coming out” and identity politics. 5 Dixa Ramírez, “Against Type: Reading Desire in the Visual Archives...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
.... The essay offers some possibilities for greater nuance in accounts of sexual subjectivity in Cuba and the Caribbean and locates the stakes of these discussions in broader transnational LGBT rights discourses. [email protected] © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 drag performance transgender...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 156–166.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Jacqueline Couti The French Creole term makoumè does not belong to the political and cultural discussions by French Caribbean LGBT communities seeking protection against abuse using the laws sanctioned by the French government. One would also be hard-pressed to find local and Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
...' college. The collaborators have received funding from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and they “hope to increase the visibility of LGBT Caribbean lives on screen.” 4 If it is widely distributed, this film could become a major intervention. Author Dennis-Benn made waves in social media...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... to approach LGBT practitioners who manifest queerness in the faith. These queer Baptists are a crossroads that is also a bridge. Still, while the proliferation of same-sex-desiring and gender nonconforming practitioners from new initiates to revered religious elders has been for some time garnering...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 199–205.
Published: 01 November 2016
... not fit global Northern models of “modern” lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender politics. At the same time, LGBT politics are not simply external to Latin America but have a long-standing history in some countries. 14 This raises challenging conceptual questions; for example, how can one account...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
... and other countries to overturn our buggery laws and enact legislation to offer special rights to LGBT persons. … We believe that Jamaica is going to be a place of refuge and we will continue to take a stand and encourage others to stand with us.” And on the other: “Simply focusing on the repeal of archaic...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 178–181.
Published: 01 March 2015
...); and “Art History and the Dialogics of Diaspora,” in Small Axe (2012). K areem M ortimer , a filmmaker who has won over thirty film awards, was born in Nassau in 1980. His feature films include the LGBT drama Children of God , which has won eighteen festival awards, and the family comedy Wind...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
... See Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues, “Nonhuman Animal Metaphors and the (final ellipses in original) Reinforcement of Homophobia and Heterosexism,” in David Nibert, ed., Animal Oppression and Capitalism , vol. 2 (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2017), 231–50. Puerto Rico LGBT queer language Patería...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
... Institute for Reproductive Health, and Transgender Law Center, Testimony of Organizations Supporting LGBT Equality (Washington, DC: Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, 19 June 2012), 1. 17 Jack Harrison-Quintana and Sharon Lettman-Hicks, with Jaime...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
Published: 01 July 2015
...” that were so key to LGBT politics in the United States. Must these responses be seen as inherently and always only as a sign of repression, even if they themselves resisted the idea of being repressed (or hence, not “happy”)? As I considered how queer Dominican cultures, rather than necessarily...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2016
.../2016/actualidad/8367971-politologa-denuncia-ministra-le-nego-beca-pos-grado-pelo-afro . On the Dominican response to the events in Orlando, see Yoranmi Santiago, “Una Veitena de Manifestantes LGBT Protestan Frente a la Cancillería, Previo Asamblea OEA,” Listín Diario , 14 June 2016...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2019
... ( www.dloc.com ), the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (Toronto), and the IHLIA LGBT Heritage (Amsterdam), I examine how same-sex desire operates as a mode of global connections for Jamaicans and the role of these connections in the formation of Jamaican sexual politics. 11 I mobilize GFM’s term “gaydren...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
... featured as models in a photo shoot for Hood by Air (HBA), manufacturer of a high-priced street-wear fashion line; see www.konbini.com/us/inspiration/hood-by-air-pieter-hurgo-jamaica-lgbt-community-gully-queens . 19 “Shopping Centre Replacing Knutsford Park,” Gleaner , 11 January 1959. 20...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 62–79.
Published: 01 November 2011
... Tinsley cites Edouard Glissant’s call for Caribbean scholars to embrace opacity, she
goes on to explain that the difference that Glissant names is neither sexuality nor gender, although “tactics of self-veiling
. . . challenge both heterocentric Caribbean critics and Eurocentric LGBT rights...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the poet's work and her timeless magnetic appeal to those groups that experience and share conditions of oppression and marginality—women, underprivileged masses, people of color, LGBT individuals. Ironically, it is Burgos's own experience of migration and displacement that allowed the poet to become...
