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Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean aims to disrupt the conventional rendering of the Caribbean as uniquely and deeply homophobic by focusing on the experiences and agency of LGBTQ people in the region. Presenting a wide range of perspectives and approaches, this book grew out of presentations at two groundbreaking events on the Jamaican campus of the University of the West Indies: a symposium discussing LGBTQ experiences and research in Jamaica, and a conference that expanded the focus to provide a regional scope. Activists, artists and academics came together to challenge and change the narratives about LGBTQ issues in the Caribbean, exploring sexualities, gender identities and queer practices beyond the discourse of violence, as well as the stereotypes, assumptions and limitations presented by conventional norms around gender and sexuality.
Beyond Homophobia combines a variety of academic disciplines with poetry and prose. Its contributions move from cyberspace to the dancehall, from literary analysis to ethnographic research, from pedagogical to methodological concerns, and from thoughts on the past to ideas about the future. The collection presents a range of perspectives on and techniques with which to interrogate notions of identity, sexualities, victimhood, agency, activism, fluidity, fixity, visibility, invisibility, class, homophobia, coming out, belonging and spirituality.
By illuminating the lives, experiences, and research of and about the queer anglophone Caribbean, this volume represents a concerted attempt to move Beyond Homophobia.
Contents
Foreword
Thomas Glave
Introduction
Moji Anderson and Erin C. MacLeod
Part 1. Centring Praxis
Tales from the Field: Myths and Methodologies for Researching Same Sex-Desiring People in the Caribbean
Nikoli Attai, K. Nandini Ghisyawan, Rajanie Preity Kumar and Carla Moore
Inclusion of LGBTQ Students in Jamaican Teacher Education: Religiosity, Respectability and Resistance
Carol Hordatt Gentles and Vileitha Davis-Morrison
Level 5: Betwixt and Between "Homophobia" in Trinidad and Tobago
Keith E. McNeal
Part 2. Queering the Spiritual, Queering the Artistic
I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith
Lyndon K. Gill
A Symphony in Four Movements: Religion, Syphilis and Homosexuality in Marlon James's John Crow's Devil
Anna Kasafi Perkins
he Sodom of the New World: A Queer Claim to Historical Belonging
Nick Marsellas
Iconicity and Eroticism in the Photography of Archie Lindo
O'Neil Lawrence
Brave "Battymen" and the (Im)Possibilities of a Straight Dancehall
Carla Moore
Part 3. Telling Stories, Finding Self
In Search of the Dead: (Un)Marked Graves and the Sea of We
Thomas Glave
"What a Writer Is": A Presentation Given at the Beyond Homophobia Conference
Andre Bagoo
"Hey Lara"
Dorothea Smartt
Part 4. Activism and Action
Toward a Working-Class Queer Agenda and Leadership in Jamaica
Adwoa Onuora and Ajamu Nangwaya
Pride, Vulgarity and Imagination
Colin Robinson
So: Queer Life Beyond and Against Homophobia
Rinaldo Walcott
Afterword
Kei Miller
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