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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
... of female homosociality, cooperation, and desire, such as zami and mati , as well as sakhi , Indo-Caribbean traditions of ritual friendship, to help contextualize women’s passionate friendships. [email protected] © 2024 by Small Axe, Inc. 2024 female same-sex desire friendship...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., 117). 3 Her chapter on Caribbean women who desire women makes this point even more vigorously—describing and deconstructing the myth of invisibility in relation to women's same-sex desire in favor of what I see as an idea of indivisibility (96). As King notes, sexuality is not privileged...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
....” Although quick to acknowledge that she is not the first woman to sing calypso in the tents, Lewis was the first female calypsonian to win the nation’s most prestigious calypso monarch title in 1978. Despite some quite explicit references to her same-sex desire in song or in conversation over the course...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
...; and female same-sex desire. This difficulty in distinguishing between homosexuality and homosociality in the context of kambrada relationships invites us to study sexuality autonomously and in conjunction with different forms of everyday life. Later scholarship has built upon these early texts...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
... abierto , the open secret. On the other hand, invisibility is the paradigm that she proposes for women's desire for women. Men's same-sex desire appears to elicit more public attention and violent opposition only because violence against women is so naturalized that we do not attend to it or mourn...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (2 (38)): 43–59.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of desire. 11 Echoing these observations, Kamala Kempadoo states, Nineteenth-century theories of race did not just consist of essentializing differentiations between self and other: they were also about a fascination with people having sex—interminable, adulterating, aleatory, illicit, inter-racial sex...
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The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
Small Axe (2006) 10 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 June 2006
... • The Operations of the Closet and the Discourse of Unspeakable Contents in Black Fauns and My Brother
texts represent same-sex desire as repressed social content and therefore function as fertile
discursive fields for a reading of the socio-psychic mechanisms that reproduce the ontological...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
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response to racism, colonialism, class oppression, and sexual abuse.
Necropower, Love/Sex, Desire
In “Remember Me the opening scene of the movie, two hours after she arrives Brenda
goes to the beach looking for Legba. She finds him lying on the sand with his eyes closed...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... academics to follow the lead of those whose lives we examine. The publication of Dennis-Benn's and Jackson's first novels with major US publishers—and major marketing budgets—along with established authors' sustained attention to women's same-sex desire and “female-to-male” experience (such as Mootoo's...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
... of him. Lowe demands his femaleness be recognized and Omar refuses, unable to
reconcile the part of Lowe that is woman with his desire for Lowe as a “man.” Lowe cannot
be the in-between, the simultaneous male and female that would legitimate Cecil’s or Omar’s
desire for the male body...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... transmits the reproductive capacity of nature to the female body made out of wood. Thus Ramírez subverts the cultural devaluations of women that place them closer to nature in phallocentric society. She also gives visibility to motherhood, which is usually disassociated from sex work. Social anthropologist...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 17–33.
Published: 01 July 2019
...Matthew Chin Drawing from the work of Jamaica’s Gay Freedom Movement (1977–84), this essay uses the term gaydren to consider the basis for activism around same-sex desire in Jamaica in the 1970s and 1980s. Gaydren is a combination of gay , a North Atlantic reference to subjects of same-sex desire...
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Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 1–15.
Published: 01 March 2010
... construction of
the category female, which was theorized as possessing many of the same characteristics of
a liberal humanist subject. This was a resuscitated subjectivity whose worth was measured
by the same criteria that were being critiqued, that is to say, reason, unitary...
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 118–129.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., proposed reforms
to the Jamaica Constitution 1962 in the draft Charter of Rights and Freedoms have suggested
that gender equality be refined with a preposterous qualification—an insistence that “sex” can
never mean more than “male or female.”5
By garnering elements of postcoloniality from...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 62–76.
Published: 01 March 2019
... and David’s first sex scene provides evidence of this centering of female sexuality. Despite not finding the much-older David very desirable—in part because “he was brown skin and she preferred her men black like the night” (129)—Marva enjoys being wooed by him and is cognizant of the strategic advantages...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (3): 161–173.
Published: 01 October 2006
... a preexisting hetero-patriarchal power struc-
ture that frames sex as a man penetrating a woman who receives the pleasure of the stabbing.
The song is a case of Nietzchean amor fati—loving one’s fate and therefore cannot really be
claimed as an assertion of transformative female agency...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
...Michelle V. Rowley Taking Andil Gosine’s invitation in Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (2021) to consider the possibilities of animality, this essay sits with the two valences that are potentially inherent in his framing—first, that we reassess the generative possibilities...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men . 21 Alongside these publications in sociology, anthropology, and political science, there was also an increase in LGBT literary voices in the twenty-first century. First was the controversial Antología de la literatura...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 18–38.
Published: 01 March 2018
..., and Desire , 221–27. Indeed, when Gardner created her own mock-natural-historical volume from the Creole Portraits lithographs for Small Axe , titled “A Collection of Creole Portrait Heads of the Female Sex,” she lists opposite the reproduction of Bromeliad penguin (Abba) instances in which Thistlewood...
FIGURES
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 179–188.
Published: 01 November 2016
... at night on a “small, silent, floating terrace” 5 to commune with one another through listening to music and a silent witnessing of male same-sex desire, Horn suggests that the scenes illustrate “these characters' need to withdraw from the surrounding reality.” Contreras's story “thereby speaks...
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