Full Description
The edited collection addresses the complexities, challenges—including antipathies—that continue to harm but also facilitate the progress of sexual and gender minority groups in education systems in the Caribbean.
Possibility and Progress: Navigating 21st Century Education Realities for Sexual and Gender Minorities in the Caribbean is a collection of perspectives that challenge the commonly held view in academic and activist circles in the Global North that the Caribbean are dangerous and "unsafe" regions for sexual and gender minorities. Compounding this narrative is the underrepresentation of Caribbean people who do not conform to normative heterosexual patterns of behaviour or gender expression in various social domains and the reinforcement of negative stereotypes about their experiences by the media and education systems. Despites the persistence of negative stereotypes and stigma levelled against sexual and gender minorities, there are noteworthy possibilities and progress to be highlighted. The collection will cover these through the lenses of a variety of scholarly perspectives.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Kaschka R. Watson, R. Anthony Lewis, and Andrew B. Campbell
Chapter 2 Recounting Tensions, Trauma and Triumph: A Duoethnographic Approach of the Experiences of Two Black Male Gay Educational Leaders
Andrew B. Campbell and Kaschka R. Watson
Chapter 3 Jamaica's Buggery Law and its Impact on LGBTQI Students' Educational and Psychological Development
Alvin L. Bradbury II
Chapter 4 Adverse Childhood Experiences, Internalized Homophobia, and Suicidality among Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, and Multiracial Sexual Minority Men
Odion Clunis
Chapter 5 'Every Child Can Learn, Every Child Must Learn' Until Sexuality Comes up: An Analysis of Sexual Diversity Approaches to Inclusion in Caribbean Education Policy Frameworks
Taitu Heron
Chapter 6 Knowledge vs Noise: Dancehall Music as a Platform for Imparting Feminism to Subalternised Jamaicans
Elton Johnson
Chapter 7 Leadership for open and inclusive campuses: Shifting Jamaican tertiary educational leaders' discourse on LGB issues
R. Anthony Lewis and Craig McNally
Chapter 8 Ripped from the Headlines: Examining Print Media Reporting on Issues Related to LGBTQ+ Youth in the Context of Jamaican Public Education
Andrew B. Campbell and George McCaulsky
Chapter 9 Healing before Progressing: Trauma-Informed Pedagogy and Postcolonial Belonging
Kemar McIntosh
Chapter 10 Mapping Colonialism, Christianity, and Legal Constraints in Guyana's Gender Minority Education
Romain Williams and Dara Dillon
Chapter 11 The Power of Counter Narratives: LGBTQ+ Issues in Jamaica
Andrew B. Campbell
Chapter 12 Confronting Hate in Grenada: Experiences, Implications, and Possibilities
Donna Swapp and Kemon Herry
Epilogue - (Activist voice)
About the Editors
About the Authors
