#queer caribbean

[queerliblib]

Maybe this is not a thing, but any books on queer caribbean history or queer caribbean politics?

hi! thanks for asking! The one we’ve got which fits your question the best is:

The Sexual Politics of Empire: postcolonial homophobia in Haiti by Erin L. Durban

but I’d also include Welcome to Fairyland it is a deep dive into Miami queer history, and specifically considers Miami as a borderland, part of the Caribbean, & as a contested colonial space.

& a (nonexhaustive!) list of nonfic titles in our wishlist that we hope to purchase in the future that center the Caribbean include:

Circuits of the Sacred by Carlos Ulises Decena

Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty by Ana-Maurine Lara

Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica by Matthew Chin

Erotic Islands by Lyndon K. Gill

After Love: Queer intimacies and erotic economies in post-soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout

Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the queer Caribbean imagination by Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan

also want to shout out some fiction & poetry in this general geographical area:

Cutlish by Rajiv Mohabir (poetry, Guyana)

Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn (adult fiction, Jamaica)

A Different Kind of Hurricane by H. Nigel Thomas (adult fiction, St. Vincent)

The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa (YA, at sea)

[piononostalgia]

Musmé, Sino-Cuban Drag Queen and Singer

[chip0910]

Let’s celebrate Pride Month with a Coming Out party! Check out Club Alternate on Facebook for more information.

[piononostalgia]

Johnny Rodriguez fue un cantante y compositor puertorriqueño que en la década del 60 inauguró un club de espectáculos, llamado "El Cotorrito," uno de los primeros escenarios serios que tuvo el travestismo en Puerto Rico.

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[piononostalgia]

Johnny Rodriguez fue un cantante y compositor puertorriqueño que en la década del 60 inauguró un club de espectáculos llamado “El Cotorrito,” uno de los primeros escenarios serios que tuvo el travestismo en Puerto Rico.

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[hemi-demi-semiquaver]

Feeling tender at the very idea of reading queer caribbean literature

[romosexuality]

While organising the Pride Barbados inaugural parade, I sat down with Nation News to have a conversation on the priorities of the LGBT movement in Barbados.

I must also say that even though the content of these videos is important, I hesitated to share them because my hair was in that weird state, where heat-straightened naturally kinky hair swells and stiffens due to humidity. It's so ridiculous that as women, black women in particular, our hair and physical appearances are under such scrutiny and policing that we need to justify them. If not, the preoccupation with our physical appearance might eclipse the importance of our work.

Part 1 of 3.

Video by Krystal Hoyte of Nation News.

[romosexuality]

A glimpse at some of the community mobilising initiatives which my organisation has initiated over the years.