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    Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
    Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
    Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean
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    Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean

    By Nikoli A. Attai

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    In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region’s engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing “on the ground” and creating transgressive communities within the region.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRutgers University Press
    Release dateJul 14, 2023
    ISBN9781978830370
    Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean

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