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This Is How You Become the Animal You Are So Bent on Becoming
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
... it manifests as queer desire, and even more finely tuned—sodomy as the marker and “dividing line” between human and animal (4). In his invitation to embrace animality, Gosine prompts us to reimagine the relationship between humanity and animality , how these categories shape what we know of the region...
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Embracing Our Animal Selves: The Liberatory Politics of Andil Gosine’s Nature’s Wild
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 159–166.
Published: 01 July 2023
... as a form of radical postcolonial thinking. [email protected] © 2023 by Small Axe, Inc. 2023 animal studies animality sodomy queer theory Guadeloupe Andil Gosine “We are animals. So what?” Andil Gosine boldly asks in his compelling new book, Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law...
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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
... Discours sur le colonialisme foregrounding this deep irony? 8 Thus the colonizers’ anxiety was ironic in that how they used these laws to curb sodomy in Britain—to establish a relationship between same-sex sexual contact and practiced heterosexuality outside the categorization of the anachronistic...
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“Luxurious Resting Places for the Idle and Vicious”? The Rise and Fall of Penal Reform in Jamaica in the 1840s
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 147–163.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in the prisons for new arrivals. Such a policy quickly became highly contentious and divisive.26 Then in May 1849 the revelations of serial sodomy in the General Penitentiary served to pull together a number of previously more or less separate elite anxieties: African barbarism, the laxity of the prison regime...
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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
... anti-sodomy laws, we run the real risk of reducing homosexuality to nothing more than a sex act, which most conservative Caribbean folk find ‘icky.’ … By appealing to shared values of family, love, and respect, we can change the narrative regarding LGBTI persons from one of sex to one of love.” 2...
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One Sustained Moment: The Constant Re-creation of Caribbean Sexualities
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... homophobia Guyanese cross-dressing Belize sodomy law When one labors on a book of scholarship for years, completing it brings a rush of satisfaction. Then the signing of a contract—sometimes months or years later—brings a sense of relief and anticipation. For me, all these emotions were compounded...
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Is Not Everything Good to Eat, Good to Talk: Sexual Economy and Dancehall Music in the Global Marketplace
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Small Axe (2003) 7 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 March 2003
... by summoning the biblical wrath of the Almighty against
“sexual misconduct” and government corruption:
Tell di broddah weh fuck up di economy
Fe go read Chapter 3 Deuteronomy
Tell em sey we have to secure we family
Government corruption ah goh down like sodomy
Here, the fusion of political...
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Bodies in the System
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (3 (42)): 182–192.
Published: 01 November 2013
... découvert au lieu d'un homme, une espèce de “Macoumé” … Sa majesté Vaval, le roi de la masturbation, de la sodomie et de l'uranisme qui … laisse une longue lignée d'enfants procréés médicalement par assistance. 21 (This year, the people finally found instead of a man, a type of “Macoumé”[:] … His...
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Revisiting No Bond but the Law
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Small Axe (2011) 15 (1 (34)): 176–186.
Published: 01 March 2011
... that the separate and silent systems of rehabilitative imprisonment came to seem too expensive for a colony with limited resources, especially given the House of Assembly s reluctance to tax the plantations. It also notes the prison sodomy scandal of 1849 and the fact that the reintroduction of flogging in 1850...
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Strategic Universalisms and Dominican LGBT Activist Struggles for Civil and Human Rights
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 99–114.
Published: 01 July 2018
... world, they are a central means of developing local-global dynamics.” 34 These dynamics are readily apparent in the struggles of Dominican LGBT activists. Though sodomy—and by extension the identities co-related to sodomy, principally, homosexuality and transgenderism—is not illegal...
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Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings
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Small Axe (2007) 11 (3): 130–138.
Published: 01 October 2007
..., the National AIDS Committee asking for the repeal of laws criminalizing prostitution, sodomy,
adultery and fornication, and, on the other, an organization of Christian lawyers requesting clarification of the
reference to “marriage” so that it would be defined as “the voluntary union of one man to one...
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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
..., monstrous, and lacking—that homosexuality is not simply about loving men but about not being a man at all. “Déformé” also brings back the idea of deficiency as well monstrousness. As this makoumè, an adept of sodomy, is taken by other men, he is passive and thus not masculine and strong. Worse, he...
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Everything Slackens in a Wreck
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 119–143.
Published: 01 July 2022
... of both the series of sculptures and of Nanan’s consideration of créolité in the most obvious way: at the end, after the turbulence, there is reward. Nanan’s specific inspiration for this Krishna was the decriminalization of sodomy won in Trinidad and Tobago’s High Court in 2018 and the subsequent...
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Haiti, History, and the Law: Colin Dayan's Fables of Conversion
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 162–177.
Published: 01 November 2014
..., the Marquis de Sade, both men “committed to a job well done, whether it be the seriatim sodomy of a Juliette or Lejeune's regulated system of burning and confession” (218)—ultimately convinced judges at both the lower court and appellate levels to drop the charges against him. The failure to convict even...
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Antihomosexuality and Nationalist Critique in Late Colonial Jamaica: Revisiting the 1951 Police Enquiry
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 81–96.
Published: 01 November 2020
... remembered for its contribution to the decriminalization of sodomy, it also led to the further criminalization of sex work. See Sophie Day, “Wolfenden Fifty: Revisiting State Policy and the Politics of Sex Work in the UK,” in Vanessa Munro and Marina Della Gusta, eds., Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections...
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“Black Man Time Now”: Race, Class, and Culture in 1970s-based Jamaican Fiction
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 77–96.
Published: 01 March 2019
...—the girl at the end of the street, the shopkeeper’s wife, every day another story of sodomy, burning, tearing women apart; vile, sadistic things that made even policemen cry).” 21 In addition, because of her position in the Ministry of National Security Jean has found herself being approached for inside...
