Queer Joy as a Liberatory Practice
For systemically excluded communities, joy is more than a feeling; it is a political position and healing technology. — Shadeen Francis
Wellness in the Queeribbean
On the violence of colonialism and heteronormativity on our bodies as well as surviving “otherwise” as Queeribbean people with Dr. Alisa Alvis.
Statement in Solidarity with Palestine
We will not look away. We must raise up a cry of transnational feminist solidarity, a polyphony of rage and dissent, against the ongoing violence against Palestinians by the settler colony of Israel and its allies.
Fe A-we
after by Kamau Brathwaite
So what if we queers die?
Ritual
And I am here
in commune with the seas
my curios stem from cashee,
breadfruit and jackfish, a feast
Interview with a Chichiman
I am the sea unending, rhythmic, fearless…
The Arrival of Birds
Amazona guildingii shrieks for you,
and your half-written sinuous chapters,
they are to remain unfinished.
This is one tragedy of the Caribbean queer.
Who am I?
It has taken me years to know that I am a queer black feminist who loves the water; whether it be the ocean, a waterfall, a lake, or a river, the form doesn't matter.
Letters from an Island: Part I
As an island
I am reformed
in any image
outside my own…
Caribbean Feminist Stories: Volume II
Did you know? The Sea and Sand are lovers. With every ebb and flow, they shape and are shaped. With each rush and churn, they guide and are guided. Time and time again, they converge and reconverge.
Woman
Woman,
You spend years wrapping me up
in your selves
Wind me tight
Blueing breasts and juiced out abdomen..
Day In The Life - Queer Caribby
"Yuh know muh lub home but sometime...
Like the Sea Rushing In
When did I realize I was queer? How do you read backwards? How do you read between and under and through a life lived thinking there was nothing else?
Un/furled
I moved to Canada for university convinced that in that free space (a space, I didn’t then realise, where what freedoms it could acclaim were built on Indigenous genocide, continuous exploitation and theft) I could be more myself.