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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
...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

Nijah Cunningham
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665452
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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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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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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Caribbean Queer Visualities: A Small Axe Project Statement

Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 118–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2873269
Published: 01 March 2015
..., and the languages of dissidence, have to be learned all over again. This is the space in which our Small Axe project “Caribbean Queer Visualities” emerges. We want to wonder whether queer might be one idiom in which to describe aspects of the dissenting visual sensibility emerging in Caribbean art. Our...
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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
... 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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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
... 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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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
... of the archive become public. Believing that the items would never be retrieved, he had destroyed a number of the albums and given others to his queer acquaintances, including, it seems, the one to my friend. Thus Donald’s caution had led to my discovery of the erotic archive. Eager to at least attempt...
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Queering the Pitch from Beyond a Boundary

Madhavi Kale
Small Axe (2014) 18 (1 (43)): 38–54.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2642746
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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“We Are Animal. So What?”

Rajiv Mohabir
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 167–176.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795363
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

Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé
Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9901569
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

Maja Horn
Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 78–84.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3139382
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

Rachel Afi Quinn
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985819
Published: 01 July 2018
... organizing against heteropatriarchy and hypermasculinity that in other ways seek to improve the lives of LGBT Dominicans. Copyright © 2018 by Small Axe, Inc. 2018 Dominican Republic LGBT rights queer neoliberal Minibuses are draped in large rainbow flags and plastered with the banners...
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La Caldosa : Afro-Lesbian Space-Making and Transnational Politics in Havana

Kerry White
Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 32–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10899316
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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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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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
... Sheller's work but also our responsibility to maintain appropriate and generative critical demeanor relative to the archives and the circulation of previously submerged or deep (bottom) knowledges. © Small Axe, Inc. 2015 erotics feminism queer methodology Mimi Sheller is one of the leading...
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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
... of ruination might lead to a “hopeful pessimism” that could break with the nostalgic immobility of the arrested present. It concludes by exploring the possibilities of an emerging cuir (queer) futurity that breaks with raced and gendered scripts of postcolonial sovereignty to envision a new postdisaster future...
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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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Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild

Kedon Willis
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795349
Published: 01 July 2023
... affirm the respectability of the region’s inhabitants. Gosine’s investment in understanding and dismantling the historical hold of needing to prove one’s humanity, the author argues, falls in line with a movement among a multidisciplinary field of queer artists and scholars who embrace animality...
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This Is How You Become the Animal You Are So Bent on Becoming

Michelle V. Rowley
Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-10795377
Published: 01 July 2023
... frames Gosine’s questions as ones that pursue the decolonial possibilities of animality and suggests that Nature’s Wild offers us a blueprint for a Caribbean queer decolonial politic. Its primary inquiry resides in asking how animality adapts and signifies in potentially intersectional ways and whether...
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