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I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
... and the Southern Caribbean. After offering a brief history of the faith, the piece focuses on the spiritual moorings of one particularly prominent queer Caribbean artist and religious elder. This work is committed to the belief that one of the richest territories of black queer experience has long been our...
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Queer Livity in the Caribbean: Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
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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The Queer Politics of Crossing in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 114–124.
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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Caribbean Queer Visualities: A Small Axe Project Statement
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 118–122.
Published: 01 March 2015
.... “Caribbean Queer Visualities” aims to push the envelope established by these projects, both in terms of theme as well as in terms of programmatic concerns. Thematically in some sense, the “Caribbean Visual Memory” and “Visual Life of Catastrophic History” projects were conceived within a conventional...
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“Da pa' lo' do' ”: Rita Indiana's Queer, Racialized Dominicanness
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 85–93.
Published: 01 July 2015
... to reimagine the historical relationship between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the author ultimately argues that Indiana signals a move toward a different way of being in the Dominican Republic, one in which the literal and figurative borders are porous enough to allow for the queer, for the female...
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Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 7–23.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Nadia Ellis This article provides a set of readings toward what I am calling a “queer performance hermeneutic” of dancehall culture. It argues that although dancehall appears to be rigidly heteronormative, there are modes of queer performance within its culture, modes that may even be enabled...
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A Queer Pier: Roundtable on the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
... the roundtable when I used the notion of a “queer pier” to suggest that the idea of a black radical tradition might simply serve as an occasion for congregating at the limits of possibility, as if it was a platform for innovation or a workshop that gestures toward an unknown horizon or some destination...
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Kith and Kin: The Making of Queer Communities
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 147–155.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan This keyword essay discusses how the terms friend and family are used by same-sex-desiring women in Trinidad to mask and facilitate queer becoming. For many, friends can be like family; for some, those words might be synonymous. The paper questions how cultures...
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Queer Césaire
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (1 (73)): 1–19.
Published: 01 March 2024
...Matthew Omelsky This essay is a response to calls in Black studies in the last decade, by Jafari Allen and others, to excavate Black queer histories and experiences, including in archives where we least expect them. The author offers a queer reading of a foundational work in global Black literature...
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Patería and Contemporary Puerto Rican Queer/Trans Performance
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
...Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes Patería is a Puerto Rican Spanish-language vernacular synonym for “queerness” as a sign of gender and sexual transgression. It invokes stigmatized LGBTQIA+ local language practices that coexist in tension with the modernity, paradoxes, and challenges of other words...
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Published: 01 July 2024
Figure 2 Image accompanying Lawrence La Fountain– Stokes’s “Queer Ducks, Puerto Rican Patos , and Jewish-American Feygelekh : Birds and the Cultural Representation of Homosexuality” ( CENTRO 19, no. 1 [2007]: 192)
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Through Archie Lindo’s Lens: Uncovering the Queer Subtext in Nationalist Jamaican Art
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 143–163.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., seen through their fantasies. Though it is unclear whether his subjects were queer or straight, and whether they were coerced or bribed into posing for Lindo, they did have, despite the disparities of class, a degree of agency. As Richard Powell has reiterated in Cutting a Figure , the subjects...
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Jamaican Nationalism, Queer Intimacies, and the Disjunctures of the Chinese Diaspora: Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 95–109.
Published: 01 March 2011
... call a queer utopian historical romance. The novel portrays a simultaneously pluralist and creolizing anticolonial nationalism emerging from queer intimacies that cut across the racial divisions of late nineteenth-century Jamaica. Not only does this displace the masculinist labor movements of the 1930s...
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Queering the Pitch from Beyond a Boundary
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 38–54.
Published: 01 March 2014
.... Relatedly, in Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others, philosopher Sara Ahmed builds on the spatial and political ruptures and crossings characteristic of the present conjuncture to suggest how theorizing and operationalizing disorientation may be generative for understanding and generously...
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“Ziggy, sé an makoumè ”: Queering Otherness and Disturbing Identities
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 156–166.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., of excess, of gender disturbance—namely, queerness—rather than as only a sign of masculine homosexuality in the Caribbean, expose a very French malaise around questions of genre and issues destabilizing heterosexual norms? This French Creole word could thus help us examine and (re)imagine queerness...
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“We Are Animal. So What?”
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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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Dancing in an Enclosure: Activism and Mourning in the Puerto Rican Summer of 2019
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the mournfully irreverent dance performances of the Afro-Boricua bomba dancer Clara Isabel Díaz, the patería combativa (combative queer voguing) of Aldrin Manuel Cañals, and the reggaetón perreo of queer feminist activists Perra Mística and Kaya Té as gestures of loss and mourning that both demand redress...
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José E. Muñoz's Critical Caribbean Crossroads
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
Published: 01 July 2015
...” in Muñoz's work to the work of Antonio Benítez-Rojo, another Cuban/Cuban American scholar who has foregrounded the role of performance in the Caribbean. The author furthermore suggests how Muñoz's later critical work on subjectivity, sexuality, and evidence speaks to queer Dominican cultures, experiences...
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Dominican Pride and Shame: Gender, Race, and LGBT Activism in Santo Domingo
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
..., Inc. 2018 Dominican Republic LGBT rights queer neoliberal Minibuses are draped in large rainbow flags and plastered with the banners of local nongovernmental organizations. Lesbian couples with rainbow-streaked cheeks embrace in the street, as organizers rush to fasten the last balloons...
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La Caldosa : Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
Published: 01 November 2023
... to a hemispheric and anticipatory Black lesbian politic. The essay builds on previous work on Black lesbian feminism in Cuba and provides insight into the type of activism that was happening in the island in the mid-2010s, which laid the groundwork for the growth in Afro-feminist and Afro-queer activism...
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