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Here are some important and exciting things that I've read. You can find them easily on the web and join me in exploring these topics.

Caribbean Gender and Sexuality Studies

Black Queer Studies

Fiction

Essays

Agard-Jones, Vanessa. 2012. “What the Sands Remember.” GLQ 18 (2 – 3): 325-346.

———. 2013. “Bodies in the System.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 17 3 (42): 182–92.

Alexander, Jacqui M. 1994. “Not Just (Any) Body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas.” Feminist Review, no. 48: 5–23. 

Cohen, Cathy J. 1997. “Punks, Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ 3: 437-465.

———. 2004. “Deviance as Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 1 (1): 27-45.

Crichlow, Wesley E. A. 2004. “History, (Re) Memory and Biomythography: Charting a Buller Man’s Trinidadian Past.” In Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities: Theoretical and Empirical Analyses, edited by Rhoda Reddock, 185-222. Kingston: UWI Press.

Ellis, Nadia. 2011. “Out and Bad: Toward a Queer Performance Hermeneutic in Jamaican Dancehall.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 15 2 (35): 7–23.

Gosine, Andil. 2005. “Stumbling Into Sexualities: International Discourse Discovers Dissident Desire.” Canadian Woman Studies 24 (2-3): 59-63.

———. “CAISO, CAISO: Negotiating Sex Rights and Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago.” Sexualities 18 (7): 859–84. 

Halima De Shong. 2012. “What Does It ‘Really’ Mean to Be a Wo/Man?: Narratives of Gender by Women and Men.” In Love and Power: Caribbean Discourses on Gender. Ed. Eudine Barriteau.  Kingston: UWI Press, 106-150.

Hodge, Merle. 2002. “We Kind of Family.” In Gendered Realities: An Anthology of Essays in Caribbean Feminist Thought, edited by Mohammed, Patricia. Kingston: UWI Press. 474-485.

Kempadoo, Kamala.  2009. “Caribbean Sexuality: Mapping the Field.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 3: 1- 24.

Lorde, Audre. 1984. “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power.” In Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde, 53-59. New York: Crossing Press.

Philip, M. Nourbese. 1990. “Managing the Unmanageable.” In Caribbean Women Writers: Essays from the first International Conference, edited by Selwyn Cudjoe. Massachusetts: Calaloux Publications.

Silvera, Makeda. 1992. “Man Royals and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians.” Feminist Studies 18 (3): 521.

Tambiah, Yasmin. 2009. “Creating Immoral Citizens: Gender, Sexuality and Lawmaking in Trinidad and Tobago, 1986.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 3: 1- 19. 

Thomas, Charleston. 2010. “(Un) Clothing Maccomere Man: Female Body as Detour for New Language-Space of Male Homosexuality.” Journal of West Indian Literature 18 (2): 115–130.

Trotz, Alissa.  2014. “Sexual Violence and the State in Guyana: Reflecting on the Colwyn Harding Case.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 8: 351-364.

———. 2007. “Going Global? Transnationality, Women/Gender Studies and Lessons from the Caribbean.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 1: 1-18.

———. 2013. “The Constitutional Challenge to the Cross-Dressing Law.” Stabroek News. September 23, 2013. Accessed April 14, 2017. https://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/features/in-the-diaspora/09/23/the-constitutional-challenge-to-the-cross-dressing-law/.

Wahab, Amar. 2012. “Homophobia as the State of Reason The Case of Postcolonial Trinidad and Tobago.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 18 (4): 481–505.

———. 2016. “Calling ‘Homophobia’ into Place (Jamaica): Homo/Trans/Nationalism in the Stop Murder Music (Canada) Campaign.” Interventions 6: 908-928.

Walcott, Rinaldo. 2009. “Queer Returns: Human Rights, the Anglo-Caribbean and Diaspora Politics.” Caribbean Review of Gender Studies 3: 1–19.

Wynter, Sylvia. 2003. “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation--An Argument.” The New Centennial Review 3 (3): 257-337.