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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 (2002) 6 (2): 209–211.
Published: 01 September 2002
...Paula Aymer Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Exposing Caribbean Tourism
Paula Aymer
Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, Kamala Kempadoo, ed. Lanham,
Md.: Rowman and Littlefi eld, 1999. ISBN 0-847-69517-4.
he black body in its varied shades of blackness...
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Small Axe (2002) 6 (2): 212.
Published: 01 September 2002
... Small Axe Incorporated 2002 Exposing Caribbean Tourism
Paula Aymer
Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean, Kamala Kempadoo, ed. Lanham,
Md.: Rowman and Littlefi eld, 1999. ISBN 0-847-69517-4.
he black body in its varied shades of blackness is a major site...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 161–174.
Published: 01 July 2018
... Sex Work in Santo Domingo,” in Peter Aggleton, ed., Men Who Sell Sex: International Perspectives on Male Prostitution and HIV/AIDS (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999), 127–39. 20 The “Guacaganarix complex” is a term often invoked to point to the tendency of Dominicans to praise...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 16–29.
Published: 01 March 2022
... and the geographies they inhabit. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 Dominican American women mother-daughter relationships ghosts colonial experience sex work Although a year separates the publication of the debut novels by Dominican Americans Nelly Rosario...
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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 (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 187–200.
Published: 01 July 2023
.... 6a , 6b , 6c ), and 24 , five sets of Polaroids that document what Lorraine O’Grady would call expressions of “courtly love” with “l’un.” Sex plays second fiddle to romance in these works; and further signing a kind of sanitized containment is the fact that these are the only works in Duets...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 71–84.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Lyndon K. Gill This essay is a preliminary investigation of the historical and contemporary presence of same-sex desiring and gender nonconforming practitioners in the Spiritual Baptist faith, a spiritual child of the syncretizing contact between black religious communities of the US South...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 126–140.
Published: 01 March 2017
... they eventually find abroad, after they return to the island these women are always suspected of having been prostitutes. Denise Brennan explains that “since Dominican women's participation in the overseas sex trade has received so much coverage in the Dominican Republic, women who have lived or worked in Europe...
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 43–58.
Published: 01 July 2011
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Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor’s research highlights the prevalence of male prostitution in
many Caribbean countries in the guise of “romance tourism.” Here, working-class men and
boys are disempowered visvis wealthier tourists, whether men or women, and tourism slips
easily into sex tourism. A key aspect...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 230–233.
Published: 01 March 2009
... and a creative Sexuality nonfiction in the Colonial book, Skin Contest Hunger: (1995) A Chronicleand a number of Sex, of Desire,forthcoming and Money volumes,; an
anthology, The Sex Work Reader; and Screwing the System: Essays on Sexuality and Power.
She is working on a new book titled...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
...—and at times the majority—of the plot set in the region. Two examples include the novels of Dominican Americans Angie Cruz and Nelly Rosario, both raised in New York City. They write about sexuality, sexual violence, and sex work in the Dominican Republic. Cruz's Soledad , about a young Dominican woman...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 81–96.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of a thirty-five-year-old waiter employed at Round Hill Hotel in Jamaica’s tourist capital, Montego Bay, noting, “You probably are a victim of circumstances brought about by the type of work you do and the place where you are employed.” 36 Talk of sex between men in Jamaican courts of law was not confined...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 34–56.
Published: 01 July 2019
... Student Association Conference, University of Texas at Austin, February 2008), lanic.utexas.edu/project/etext/llilas/ilassa/2008/parker.pdf (accessed 24 September 2017). 21 See Jeffrey Parker, “Empire’s Angst: The Politics of Race, Migration, and Sex Work in Panama, 1903–1945” (PhD diss...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... received mixed reviews for its portrayal of color politics and sex work but is also contributing to the conversation about Caribglobal gender and sexuality. In music, the Cuban artists that make up the hip-hop duo Krudas Cubensi (aka Las Krudas) continue to be open about being partners in both work...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 64–71.
Published: 01 July 2018
... tourism” and male sex work in the Dominican Republic. 20 The crucial influence of De Moya’s work is attested to, for example, in the two existing scholarly monographs that have foregrounded Dominican LGBT lives, Mark Padilla’s Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS and Decena’s...
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2003
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socially and economically.
( e obsession with women’s sexual practices in Jamaican dancehall music is no less
fanatical than the moral policing by religious organizations that, like the government,
have outlawed abortion, homosexuality, and sex work. However, there is another inter-
esting twist...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 128–143.
Published: 01 July 2018
...,” as Brewster does, disregards existing gendered social norms that are unique to a Dominican context and ignores not only the violent consequences of being openly gay but also the ways queerness is always already a part of the structures of gendered labor and economies of sex work in the Caribbean...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (2 (2)): 132–141.
Published: 01 July 2019
... the breadth of their scholarship on sex tourism. Although I will not delve into the nuances of chapter 5, “Working Women and the Neoliberal Gaze,” I would be remiss not to mention the importance of this analysis to the emerging scholarship on global Afro-dominicanidad. Ramírez not only scrutinizes the more...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (1 (70)): 143–153.
Published: 01 March 2023
... mentality found in the decolonial visions of Césaire, Éboué-Tell, Vialle, or Robeson. 11 While Afrofeminists use new technologies and are faced with new fault lines, particularly around sex work, transphobia, and capitalism, the core of their discontents—the French Republic’s failure to reckon...
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