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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 152–161.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley; Matt Richardson This reflection argues that the oeuvre of Colin Dayan provides critical tools for the elaboration of black transgender studies. Specifically, the authors analyze the trial and imprisonment of black transgender activist CeCe MacDonald using Dayan's work...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 178–187.
Published: 01 November 2014
... is always a motley drama. 1 Avery Gordon, “‘Ancient Modes of Proof’ and ‘Current Jural Doings’: Notes on the Work of Colin Dayan,” this issue of Small Axe , 138–51; Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley and Matt Richardson, “From Black Transgender Studies to Colin Dayan: Notes on Methodology,” this issue...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (3 (72)): 263–265.
Published: 01 November 2023
..., and the history and content of the newspaper press in Guyana. K erry W hite is a PhD candidate in American culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include transgender studies in the Americas, ethnographic writing and practice, and Caribbean studies. Her dissertation project...
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Small Axe (2012) 16 (1 (37)): 20–35.
Published: 01 March 2012
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Concept,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 8, no. 4 (2002): 469–97. Lowe is not a “transgendered native” per
se, but Powell’s use of a “trans” subject as potential ancestor/hero who embodies “possibility” is relevant to my analysis of
the novel.
7 See Eithne Luibhéid...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 46–59.
Published: 01 July 2022
... categories of sexual subjectivity. First, I reflect on how these dynamics have been portrayed in Cuban and Caribbean studies. Then I suggest that discussions about the relationship between gender performance and transgender subjectivity are really a stage for a broader conversation about the connections...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 250–259.
Published: 01 March 2017
... committed to Pan-Caribbean study and to the study of multiple transgressive sexualities, though I was and still am aware that this dedication to breadth sacrifices the depth that a single-language, single-country, or single-author survey offers. The book examines portrayals of nonnormative sexuality...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 75–89.
Published: 01 March 2009
... promises are never questioned or even hinted at as playing a part in the problems that will
unfold for Gardner, when in fact in the end these are his savior. However, Gardner eventually
triumphs over his victimhood when he works hard, studies hard, and secures an internship on
Wall...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 99–114.
Published: 01 July 2018
... with the author: DCM, 8 December 2010; NHM, 10 November 2010; RR, 10 November 2010; VSD, 18 November 2010. 17 Ibid., 4. 16 Council of the European Union, Toolkit to Promote and Protect the Enjoyment of All Human Rights by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) People , 17 June 2010...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 115–129.
Published: 01 July 2024
...: Cambridge University Press, 2003); Kathryn Campbell-Kibler, Robert J. Podesva, Sarah J. Roberts, and Andrew Wong, eds., Language and Sexuality: Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice (Stanford: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2002); William L. Leap and Tom Boellstorff, eds., Speaking...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 241–249.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Lisa Outar This essay offers a critical engagement with Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination (2014), arguing that King enacts a ground-shifting interdisciplinary and translinguistic approach to the study of Caribbean sexualities and gender...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 199–205.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Maja Horn This essay is a response to Carlos Ulises Decena's and Dixa Ramírez's reading of Masculinity after Trujillo: The Politics of Gender in Dominican Literature (2014). As both discussants note, the study emphasizes the important task of multiplying the archives of Dominican literature...
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Small Axe (2024) 28 (2 (74)): 130–146.
Published: 01 July 2024
..., such as mariku , used to denote transgender individuals or males perceived as overly effeminate. This exploration should extend beyond mere translation, delving into the sociocultural connotations and the implications of such terms within the community. Additionally, a comparative study is warranted to examine...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 1–17.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Jocelyn Fenton Stitt In 2009, during a period of intense debate surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Jamaica, Staceyann Chin published the first memoir of growing up lesbian in Jamaica. While Chin's lesbian identity is a major theme of the text, also important...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (1 (52)): 233–240.
Published: 01 March 2017
... Small Axe, Inc. 2017 archives Michelle Cliff Marlon James queer advocacy failed emergence Rosamond S. King's Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination is a carefully argued and scrupulously researched study of the ways a range of desiring subjects defy...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
Published: 01 November 2018
..., transatlantic, transgression, transgender, transformation, transmogrification, transcontinental, transfixed, trans-Mediterranean, transubstantiation . . . transmigration, and more.” Sharpe uses trans* “to get at something about or toward the range of trans * formations enacted on and by Black bodies” (30...
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Small Axe (2023) 27 (2 (71)): 179–188.
Published: 01 July 2023
... decolonial politics. As part of a decolonial practice in queer studies, generally, as well as the specific possibilities for the Caribbean, what are the decolonial possibilities of animality? What kinds of relations does this allow us to reorganize with ourselves, each other, and the very instruments...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 52–61.
Published: 01 March 2019
... consciousness to negotiate antiblack racism in their parents’ mother country, the country of their natality—even as they were met with deep sentiments of unbelonging. 11 And through the groundbreaking decolonial embodied performances of 1970s Jamaican dance and theater, playwright and performance studies...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 185–196.
Published: 01 July 2015
... with their male peers, in contradistinction to older groupings of women organizing away from men; and how new feminist theories of visual culture (drawn from Amelia Jones and Jennifer Doyle) illuminate a path for art historical studies to take stock of queer, transgendered, and feminist experiences...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
Published: 01 March 2013
... words, I hear the distinction between what we study, on the one hand, which may or may not be radical, and, on the other, what we do to try to understand and make connections about a leap. It is the leap that we are trying to understand and position in terms of something called “the idea of the black...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 138–151.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of suburbanization, and streets in and around New Kingston became a favorite and relatively safe zone for streetwalkers to ply their trade. In recent years, dispossessed gay and transgendered youth have taken up residence in some of the paved, below-ground storm drains or gullies in and around New Kingston...
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