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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 188–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826551
Published: 01 November 2014
... M att R ichardson is an associate professor in the departments of African and African diaspora studies and English and an affiliate faculty member in women's and gender studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature...
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From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology

Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Matt Richardson
Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2826533
Published: 01 November 2014
... theorists, and prison abolitionists. We want to suggest that those of us who work in black queer studies might also find, in the arc of her work, a rubric that helps us navigate the complicated intersections that we travel. Stretching down Lake Street between Cedar and Twenty-First Avenues sits...
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“Da pa' lo' do' ”: Rita Indiana's Queer, Racialized Dominicanness

Karen Jaime
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139394
Published: 01 July 2015
.... Here I turn to José's critical writing on black queer Latina/o performance—specifically his essay on African American/Mexican performance artist Vaginal Crème Davis in Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics —as a framework to read through and unpack the work of Dominican...
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Transformista , Travesti , Transgénero : Performing Sexual Subjectivity in Cuba

M. Myrta Leslie Santana
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901597
Published: 01 July 2022
... within queer Cuban and Caribbean studies, noticing the ways they push back against renderings of gender and sexuality as inherently distinct categories. Instead, for these artist-thinkers, trans subjectivity is informed by various experiences related to gender, sexuality, race, class, and geography...
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Dominican Pride and Shame: Gender, Race, and LGBT Activism in Santo Domingo

Rachel Afi Quinn
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985819
Published: 01 July 2018
... and Mae G. Henderson, eds., Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005), 63. Ferguson engages with M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s 1997 Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, and Democratic Futures . 14 Although I use the term queer...
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Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall

Nadia Ellis
Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1334212
Published: 01 July 2011
...). 14 Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, “Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 14, no. 2 (2008): 191–215. 15 E. Patrick Johnson, “ ‘Quare’ Studies, or (Almost) Everything I Know about Queer Studies I Learned from My...
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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019

Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901569
Published: 01 July 2022
..., Latina Nightlife, and Queer Choreography,” in E. Patrick Johnson, ed., No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 95–112. 74 See Zambrana, Colonial Debts , 110–38. See also Yoryie Irizarry’s moving statement on LGBTQ participation...
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I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith

Lyndon K. Gill
Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-4378936
Published: 01 March 2018
... in the Spiritual Baptist faith but also committed to fostering the spiritual consciousness of other Trinbagonian lesbians, see Lyndon K. Gill, “Situating Black, Situating Queer: Black Queer Diaspora Studies and the Art of Embodied Listening,” in Transforming Anthropology 20, no. 1 (2012): 32–44. 43...
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Erotics in Medias Res: Topping Caribbean Studies from the Bottom?

Jafari S. Allen
Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 159–168.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873296
Published: 01 March 2015
...” and is commonly attacked as “identity politics.” What if? Of course the “field of analysis emerging at the intersection of Caribbean studies, Black studies, women's studies, and queer studies that focuses on sexual citizenship as erotic agency as central concerns for a renewed theory of embodied freedom” (16...
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Reconstructing Manhood; or, The Drag of Black Masculinity

Rinaldo Walcott
Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 75–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2008-007
Published: 01 March 2009
... Magazine 29, no. 2 (April 2006): 33–35. 80  |  Reconstructing Manhood; or, The Drag of Black Masculinity social good. Furthermore, I would suggest that his criticism rendered both black men and black women queer, queer in the sense of an abnormal heterosexuality, since nonhetero...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 178–181.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873471
Published: 01 March 2015
... and anthropology and director of graduate studies of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Yale University. He is the author of ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-Making in Cuba (2011) and editor of “Black/Queer/Diaspora,” a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies . He...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912504
Published: 01 November 2019
... and culture in the English and Compara- tive Literature Department at San Diego State University, specializing in Caribbean literature across English, Spanish, and French, with a focus on the black diaspora. With Amaury Rodrí- guez, he is the coeditor of Dominican Black Studies, a special issue of The Black...
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The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove

Christopher Ian Foster
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642800
Published: 01 March 2014
...Christopher Ian Foster This essay considers Maryse Condé's Guadeloupean mystery novel Crossing the Mangrove as emblematic of a “politics of crossing.” The novel's queer critical praxis presents a rigorous challenge to normative (often oppressive) communities embodied by the individual, the family...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 194–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901766
Published: 01 July 2022
... A rnaldo M. C ruz -M alavé is professor at and associate director of the Institute of Latin American and Latinx Studies at Fordham University. He is the author of Queer Latino Testimonio, Keith Haring, and Juanito Xtravaganza: Hard Tails (2007); editor of Manuel Ramos Otero: Cuentos (casi...
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Pushed into Consciousness

Belinda Deneen Wallace
Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 153–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10211765
Published: 01 November 2022
..., “What Happened? Grenada: A Retrospective Journey,” Social and Economic Studies 62, nos. 3–4 (2013): 17. 23 Tinsley, “Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic,” 212 (italics in original). 24 Tinsley, “Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic,” 212 (italics in original). 25 Ibid. 26 Chancy...
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The Tambourine Army: Sonic Disruptions and the Politics of Respectability

Danielle Roper, Traci-Ann Wint
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 35–52.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604466
Published: 01 July 2020
... University Press, 1993). 12 Shalini Puri, “Beyond Resistance: Notes toward a New Caribbean Cultural Studies,” Small Axe , no. 14 (September 2003): 23; Deborah A. Thomas, Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004), 6...
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Queer Livity in the Caribbean: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies

Faith Smith
Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3843986
Published: 01 March 2017
..., among other issues. King's insistence on analyzing fiction alongside nonfictional contexts, such as court cases and queer organizing, provides a rich texture for the consideration of transgressive sexualities, while also raising questions about archives, presence, and the production of knowledge...
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Postdisaster Futures: Hopeful Pessimism, Imperial Ruination, and La futura cuir

Yarimar Bonilla
Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 147–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8604562
Published: 01 July 2020
... front and center, and feminists—particularly black feminists—were key to the movement, as were drag queens and other members of the cuir (queer) community who proudly asserted their patería combativa (or combative queerness). 49 This was a noted departure from the traditional “scripts” of Puerto...
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Through Archie Lindo’s Lens: Uncovering the Queer Subtext in Nationalist Jamaican Art

O’Neil Lawrence
Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-8749830
Published: 01 November 2020
... the ways the black male body was mobilized in the development of Jamaican art and visual culture. art Jamaica nationalism photography queer You sat there Quite unconscious of your charm; You never guessed What beauty you possessed; Your nut-brown skin Smooth soft satin, Your form...
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Come and Gone

Stephen Best
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341777
Published: 01 November 2015
... recuperated “the strain of failure that runs through all modernism” for both modernist studies and the critical project of queer theory (56). See also Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011). 40 Kevin Ohi, Henry James and the Queerness of Style...
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