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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Rajiv Mohabir This essay is a reading of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) that thinks through the author’s contributions on LGBTQ+ history, art, and activism in the Caribbean. It begins with a look at how the animal is wielded discursively to deride queerness...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 121–132.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., and a statement. It was Wigstock, the festival of drag performances founded in 1984 as a response to the hostile anti-LGBTQ environment fostered by the state’s reaction to the AIDS crisis and the neighborhood’s increasing gentrification. My friends and I quickly donned wigs and headed to Tompkins Square, where...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 239–242.
Published: 01 November 2020
... and African diasporic art and visual culture; and memory, identity, and hidden archives. He has contributed essays to publications on Caribbean art and sexuality, most recently the edited collection Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean (2020). KeishA lindsAy...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 154–162.
Published: 01 July 2022
... presentations. 15 However, others have criticized Bad Bunny for profiting off of his queer masculinity without actively elevating LGBTQ voices or participating in social movements for LGBTQ civil rights. 16 Still others criticize Bad Bunny for a lukewarm (at best) stance on anti-Blackness despite his...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... of the former president Raúl Castro and Vilma Espín. Formed in the 1980s, CENESEX promotes safer sex practices, is involved with LGBTQ activism in Cuba, and is the home of trans health care in the island. For an overview of the formation and the structure of CENESEX, see Emily J. Kirk, Cuba’s Gay Revolution...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
... in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019.” As Cruz-Malavé writes, In another rally, this time in Old San Juan, a diverse group of LGBTQ artists and activists—who have taken up the ballroom name Haus of Resistance, organized a drag ball at the capital’s main square, the old colonial Plaza de Armas, and fittingly...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of San Juan. Some, as we shall see soon in greater detail, heard the call in rallies and spontaneously threw themselves into the circle of Afro–Puerto Rican bomba drummers to speak with the ancestors through their steps, and some LGBTQ and Questioning people broke into vogue dance down an improvised...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... fig. 3 ). Her pregnant and shapely body becomes a text for questioning traditional female identity and the female role as procreator in a patriarchal society criticized by Dominican feminism. For example, Denise Paiewonsky, who is Raquel's sister, a famous feminist, an LGBTQ activist, and a professor...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... same-sex desire and LGBTQ political solidarity to date, Calypso Rose comfortably declares: “I am gay. And I’m supportive of gays. I’ve been married to a woman for the past seventeen years. . . . And I’m not ashamed or afraid to say it right now. And that’s the reason I am here tonight: to give my sons...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 100–112.
Published: 01 November 2016
... am the one who chooses!”; testimoniando via Facebook about the minister of education's attempt to deny funding for graduate study abroad to a political science student who wears her hair natural; or organizing an LGBTQ march in Santo Domingo in solidarity with the families and victims of Orlando's...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (2 (53)): 193–200.
Published: 01 July 2017
... were those dead, who were predominantly Latinx, black, and Afro-Latinx LGBTQ people. Even less noted was the stunning fact that of the forty-nine, twenty-three were from Puerto Rico. Five came from one town alone, Ponce. At times, it felt like even those who wanted to acknowledge that fact did not know...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
... without explicitly condemning LGBTQ communities. To peel away the layers of what would be transgressive about sexualities , then, is to see discourses that often pull contradictorily in several directions at once. The British prime minister's September 2015 visit to the Caribbean was marked...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of gender justice and equality is apparent as King tracks the distinctions between the landscapes of freedom for women and those for men when it comes to the arena of sexuality. In untangling (without undermining) the alliance that the LGBTQ movement constitutes in the Caribglobal community, King highlights...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
..., brotherhood, but a range of politics that spring out of discourses of sexuality and desire. I'm trying to place these questions about affiliation next to this photograph that came to me by way of a group called F.I.E.R.C.E., an LGBTQ people of color community organizing and advocacy group here in New York...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 110–121.
Published: 01 July 2023
... framings. The most current deployment of the cimarrón figure is in the hands of Black and Brown activists with a significant female and LGBTQ+ leadership. Women and feminized individuals have always been at the heart of all forms of resistance mobilization and strategizing against slavery and colonialism...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 106–121.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., intimate violence that we still live with in the West Indies, especially Jamaica, where violence against women, members of the LGBTQ community, and other vulnerable groups, is endemic. 23 Plantations were the primary social unit, and their managers treated the enslaved with impunity. Social...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 22–35.
Published: 01 March 2020
... are represented as ever-present shadows, as vectors of intimate violence, and as catalysts that shape the psyche and the kinship and erotic practices of each woman. Obono’s La Bastarda is known as the first LGBTQ novel in the Equatoguinean literary corpus. 45 Through the narrative of the protagonist Okomo...
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The Infrastructures of Liberation at the End of the World: A Reflection on Disaster in the Caribbean
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 96–109.
Published: 01 July 2020
... As social and environmental degeneration further endangers the lives of gender- and sexually nonconforming people in the Caribbean, “queer responses to the apocalypse” are emerging as LGBTQ+ activists across the region are challenging normative constructions of personhood and the crumbling social, political...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
Published: 01 July 2020
...-no-tengo-nada-que-perder/ . 46 “Todxs nosotrxs hemos sido advertidos que, si queremos un mejor futuro, lo vamos a tener que conseguir ‘allá afuera,’ pero nosotrxs no queremos irnos, queremos crear un mejor futuro aquí adentro”; ibid. 47 See Ed Morales, “Feminist and LGBTQ Activists...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
...,” asserts the Victory Fund, the US-based LGBTQ leadership organization that hosted its third annual Latin American and Caribbean leadership institute in Santo Domingo in 2017. It is a collaboration with Diversidad Dominicana and Colombia’s Caribe Affirmativo to train out-and-proud political leadership...
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