Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean 9781978830394

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the

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English Pages 214 [212] Year 2023

Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
9781978830394

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Nikoli A. Attai

Table of contents :
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
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