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Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone extends the discourse on Caribbean sexuality, queerness, and trans experiences by focusing on several moments of community-making across the Anglophone Caribbean -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- including legal challenges against Caribbean laws, drag pageantry, kinship formations, and a co-opting of mainstream urban nightclubs and bars. These offer readers new ways to understand the creative and complicated ways that queer Caribbean people are responding to the dominant sexual politics in the region. They also reveal how queer people are envisioning transgressive ways of existing despite the various forms of violence that they face.
List of contents
Introduction: Queer Liberation in the
Anglophone Caribbean?
1 Liberating the Queer Caribbean
2 On the Ground: Challenging Sexual Politics in
the Region
3 Between the Walls: Ruination and New Sexual Worlds
in Barbados
4 Queens, Kings, and Kinship Networks: Queer Culture
and Trans(gressive) Community Making
5 Rumshops, Nightlife, and the Radical Praxis
of Internal Exile
Coda: A Defiant Politics of Hope in the
Queer Caribbean
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
NIKOLI A. ATTAI is an assistant professor of ethnic studies at Colorado State University.
Summary
Problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in 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.
