Angelique V. Nixon
Dr. Angelique V. Nixon (she/her) is a Black queer feminist writer, scholar, and activist. Born and raised in the Bahamas, she is currently based in Trinidad and Tobago. She is sought after speaker and facilitator on intersecting issues related to social and climate justice, migration, and sexual and LGBTQI+ rights, among others. She is a social justice educator and community worker with two decades of experience and leadership in community-based organisations and academic institutions. Her research and creative work are available widely; she is author of two books – the poetry and art chapbook titled Saltwater Healing and the scholarly award-winning book titled Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture.
Dr. Nixon is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, gender and sexuality studies, tourism and diaspora studies, and transnational migrations. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in 2008, where she specialised in postcolonial and gender studies. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Africana Studies at New York University in 2009 and has held academic posts at University of Connecticut (2009-2011) and Susquehanna University (2011-2014). She joined The UWI IGDS in 2014 as a Fulbright scholar and in 2015 as a lecturer, where she is now a tenured faculty and coordinator of graduate studies. Her current research investigates race, sexuality, migration, and climate crisis at the crossroads of Caribbean freedom, social movements, and decolonial poetics.
Angelique is very active in Caribbean movements for human rights and social justice and has developed several community-based projects to facilitate social change, notably the healing collective Ayiti Resurrect, which organised programmes in Leogane, Haiti (2010-2017) through annual delegations focused on arts, environmental sustainability, and women’s empowerment. Since 2009, Angelique has been co-director of the Caribbean IRN (digital resource network on diverse genders and sexualities), which published two multi-media collections and organised digital archives/spaces to support Caribbean LGBTQI+ visibility and knowledge. Further since 2016, she has served as a working director of the feminist LGBTQI civil society (non-profit) organisation CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice in Trinidad and Tobago, where she spearheads operations, resource mobilisation, and community engagement, as well as coordinating various programmes. Angelique is fiercely committed in all her work to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, climate justice, and Black liberation.
Contact: angeliquevnixon@gmail.com | https://sistellablack.com/
Phone: +1-868-732-3543
Dr. Nixon is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, gender and sexuality studies, tourism and diaspora studies, and transnational migrations. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in 2008, where she specialised in postcolonial and gender studies. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Africana Studies at New York University in 2009 and has held academic posts at University of Connecticut (2009-2011) and Susquehanna University (2011-2014). She joined The UWI IGDS in 2014 as a Fulbright scholar and in 2015 as a lecturer, where she is now a tenured faculty and coordinator of graduate studies. Her current research investigates race, sexuality, migration, and climate crisis at the crossroads of Caribbean freedom, social movements, and decolonial poetics.
Angelique is very active in Caribbean movements for human rights and social justice and has developed several community-based projects to facilitate social change, notably the healing collective Ayiti Resurrect, which organised programmes in Leogane, Haiti (2010-2017) through annual delegations focused on arts, environmental sustainability, and women’s empowerment. Since 2009, Angelique has been co-director of the Caribbean IRN (digital resource network on diverse genders and sexualities), which published two multi-media collections and organised digital archives/spaces to support Caribbean LGBTQI+ visibility and knowledge. Further since 2016, she has served as a working director of the feminist LGBTQI civil society (non-profit) organisation CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice in Trinidad and Tobago, where she spearheads operations, resource mobilisation, and community engagement, as well as coordinating various programmes. Angelique is fiercely committed in all her work to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, climate justice, and Black liberation.
Contact: angeliquevnixon@gmail.com | https://sistellablack.com/
Phone: +1-868-732-3543
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Hardcover October 2015 | Paperback August 2017
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Resisting-Paradise2
Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities.
Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism.
Angelique V. Nixon interrogates the relationship between culture and sex within the production of "paradise" and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, and activists respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant historical narratives, exposing tourism's influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel.
Resisting Paradise places emphasis on the Caribbean people and its diasporic subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternate and defiant understandings of tourism in the region. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of territories including Antigua, the Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, as well as Trinidad and Tobago, to deliver a potent critique.
Papers
Edited by Gabrielle Hosein and Lisa Outar
The Collection Offers a unique and ground-breaking portrait of the contributions of Indo-Caribbean women to feminist epistemology.
Media Technologies have evolved, moving from mass information transmitters with incomplete feedback to computer mediated technologies and social media offering real time, frequently instantaneous connections. Online technologies in particular have created more spaces for people to produce and transform media. In the Caribbean, this has facilitated multiple and varied voices and representations across the region. We are interested in the gendered implications of these changes in terms of media representation and production. Further, we are concerned with how the media is used to produce or produces gendered voices, identities and politics. We ask what kinds of evolving gender and feminist conversations emerge in this moment of media transformations and Caribbean productions of media. What is particular and unique within Caribbean media in terms of how we read, write, and see gender, notions of masculinity and femininity, and/or sexual identities? What is the role of feminist politics in Caribbean media? How do feminist politics get represented in new forms of cyberactivism and social media advocating for gender and sexual justice? How have new forms of media been used by community organisers and activists around issues related to gender and sexuality?
We seek to understand how gender and sexuality are read, written and seen in contemporary Caribbean societies, especially from the point of view of persons now using available technologies to assert their perspectives, identities, and politics.
Therefore, we invite you to submit critical essays, creative work, interviews, reviews, and/or multimedia pieces, which may fall under any of the following themes:
– Feminist activism in media
– Gender and sexual minority activism in media
– Cyber activism, social networking and Caribbean feminist politics
– Performances of gender and sexuality in Caribbean media
– Producing gender and/or sexual identity – changing forms of masculinity and femininity
– Connecting, surveillance, co-veillance – social media in the Caribbean
– Media as cultural industry – gendered norms, values, attitudes
Sexuality in Caribbean media – reading, writing and seeing the sexual subject
– Gender, labour and class – reading, writing and seeing the worker
– Representations of self and subjectivity
– Representing movements for gender and sexual justice
– Online campaigns and Caribbean feminist politics
– Caribbean feminist blogs and social networking
– Global curcuits, representations, and language of gender in media
– Changing media technologies in the Caribbean
– Gender and sexual politics in media
Boundaries (2012), directed by Kerry Bovell, produced by Sekou Charles, and featuring poetry by Colin Robinson. I examine the difficulties in representing same-sex eroticism in the Caribbean because of larger societal concerns—from grappling with homophobic violence and internalized self-hate and shame to the dominant place of religion in Caribbean societies, which dramatically affects any engagement with sexuality. I focus on male same-sex desire in this article to situate roots of homophobia located at the intersections of misogyny, fear of the erotic and the feminine, and heterosexist patriarchy. Hence, I search for the erotic in these cinematic representations and
ask when it is (ever) possible to imagine and thereby represent the expansiveness of the erotic, of desire, of love outside the bounds of religion, patriarchy, and colonial violence.
Hardcover October 2015 | Paperback August 2017
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Resisting-Paradise2
Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities.
Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism.
Angelique V. Nixon interrogates the relationship between culture and sex within the production of "paradise" and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, and activists respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant historical narratives, exposing tourism's influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel.
Resisting Paradise places emphasis on the Caribbean people and its diasporic subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternate and defiant understandings of tourism in the region. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of territories including Antigua, the Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, as well as Trinidad and Tobago, to deliver a potent critique.
Edited by Gabrielle Hosein and Lisa Outar
The Collection Offers a unique and ground-breaking portrait of the contributions of Indo-Caribbean women to feminist epistemology.
Media Technologies have evolved, moving from mass information transmitters with incomplete feedback to computer mediated technologies and social media offering real time, frequently instantaneous connections. Online technologies in particular have created more spaces for people to produce and transform media. In the Caribbean, this has facilitated multiple and varied voices and representations across the region. We are interested in the gendered implications of these changes in terms of media representation and production. Further, we are concerned with how the media is used to produce or produces gendered voices, identities and politics. We ask what kinds of evolving gender and feminist conversations emerge in this moment of media transformations and Caribbean productions of media. What is particular and unique within Caribbean media in terms of how we read, write, and see gender, notions of masculinity and femininity, and/or sexual identities? What is the role of feminist politics in Caribbean media? How do feminist politics get represented in new forms of cyberactivism and social media advocating for gender and sexual justice? How have new forms of media been used by community organisers and activists around issues related to gender and sexuality?
We seek to understand how gender and sexuality are read, written and seen in contemporary Caribbean societies, especially from the point of view of persons now using available technologies to assert their perspectives, identities, and politics.
Therefore, we invite you to submit critical essays, creative work, interviews, reviews, and/or multimedia pieces, which may fall under any of the following themes:
– Feminist activism in media
– Gender and sexual minority activism in media
– Cyber activism, social networking and Caribbean feminist politics
– Performances of gender and sexuality in Caribbean media
– Producing gender and/or sexual identity – changing forms of masculinity and femininity
– Connecting, surveillance, co-veillance – social media in the Caribbean
– Media as cultural industry – gendered norms, values, attitudes
Sexuality in Caribbean media – reading, writing and seeing the sexual subject
– Gender, labour and class – reading, writing and seeing the worker
– Representations of self and subjectivity
– Representing movements for gender and sexual justice
– Online campaigns and Caribbean feminist politics
– Caribbean feminist blogs and social networking
– Global curcuits, representations, and language of gender in media
– Changing media technologies in the Caribbean
– Gender and sexual politics in media
Boundaries (2012), directed by Kerry Bovell, produced by Sekou Charles, and featuring poetry by Colin Robinson. I examine the difficulties in representing same-sex eroticism in the Caribbean because of larger societal concerns—from grappling with homophobic violence and internalized self-hate and shame to the dominant place of religion in Caribbean societies, which dramatically affects any engagement with sexuality. I focus on male same-sex desire in this article to situate roots of homophobia located at the intersections of misogyny, fear of the erotic and the feminine, and heterosexist patriarchy. Hence, I search for the erotic in these cinematic representations and
ask when it is (ever) possible to imagine and thereby represent the expansiveness of the erotic, of desire, of love outside the bounds of religion, patriarchy, and colonial violence.
Read Nixon's response to the empowering performance on ARC: http://bit.ly/1A7zggg