About Me

I am an Assistant Professor of Race, Gender, and Ethnic Studies at Colorado State University, focusing on Black queer and feminist studies. I received his PhD in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto, a Master of Philosophy in Cultural Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Communication from the University of the West Indies. Alongside my colleague Dr. Caridad Souza, I co-established and direct the RaGE Collective, a collaborative research hub that investigates how race, gender, and sexuality inform a sense of belonging in varied political, cultural, social, economic, and historical contexts in the US and beyond. Here, I work closely with students by providing a space to nurture and inspire innovative and exciting research. One of the hub's main projects is the Undergraduate Academy of Feminist Scholars (UGAFS), which provides training in transnational feminist research, and students are now embarking on a study to document the experiences of trans and gender diverse students at the university. Alongside my teaching, I collaborate with LGBTIQ+ communities in Trinidad and Tobago, and particularly CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice as a volunteer on many different social justice projects attending to the deeply complicated needs of some of the most marginalized people in the country. 

My first book, titled Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean was published by Rutgers University Press in June 2023. It problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in four Anglophone Caribbean nations – Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago – and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing “on the ground” and creating transgressive communities within the region. Defiant Bodies won the IPPY Bronze Medal for LGBTQ+ non-fiction Academic and received special recognition at the 2024 Caribbean Studies Association conference.