Queer Caribbean Writing: Sex, Gender, Politics

Our Caribbean: A Gathering Of Lesbian And Gay Writing From The Antilles

Cummings, Ronald and Njelle Hamilton. “Dialogues: Reviewing the Queer Caribbean”. Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, 2021: 1–6.

Gill, Lyndon K. “A Port of Entry: Fetish and Folklore in Yearning Region” in Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Caribbean. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018. xxi-xxx.

Glave, Thomas. “Introduction: Desire through the Archipelago.” In Our Caribbean. Ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 1-11

Arroyo, Rane. “Three Poems” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 51-52.

Barquet, Jesus. J.. “Three Poems” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 53-56.

Corridon, Linzey, “Xander” in West of West Indian. Mawenzi House, 2025, 11.

Deen, Faizal. “Three Poems” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 153-157. La Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence. “De un pajaro las dos alas: Travel Notes of a Queer Puerto Rican” Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 197-201. Padura Fuentes, Leonardo. “The Hunter” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 281-289

Quashie, Kevin Everod. “Genesis” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 304-307.

Gill, Lyndon. “Dear Audre...Epistolary Poems for Our Lorde” The Feminist Wire, February 24, 2014.

Glave, Thomas. “Toward a Nobility of the Imagination: Jamaica's Shame (An Open Letter to the People of Jamaica)” In Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 18-22 ---., “An Open Letter to The Prime Minister of Jamaica (June 2008)” Among the Blood People: Politics and Flesh. New York: Akashic Books, 2013. 29-35

Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. “Deagelar Ma..Comére: Dispersed Daughterhood and Queer Desire—A Blue Airmail Letter” in MaComere, Vol 8, (2006): 21-34

Klonaris, Helen. “Independence Day Letter” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 197-201.

Lorde, Audre. “Of Generators and Survival: Hugo Letter (1990)” in Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 233-245

Miller, Kei. “A Smaller Song (for Thomas Glave)” Writing Down the Vision: Essays and Prophecies. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2013. 39-41.

Salkey, Andrew. “Johnnie, London, 1960” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 325-335.

Chin, Staceyann. “Audre Lorde” in Bullets and Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry (ed.) Emanuel Xavier. San Francisco: Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005. 213-214. ---. “Letter to my Father” in Crossfire: A Litany for Survival. Chicago: Haymaket Books, 2019. 32-34.

Corridon, Linzey. “Dear Caribbean” in West of West Indian. Mawenzi House, 2025.

Glave, Thomas. “Dear Professor Ngũgĩ” Wasafiri, June 5, 2025.

Green, Kai, M. Dear Audre Lorde. The Feminist Wire, February 27, 2014. Miller Kei, “Letters to James Baldwin” in Things I Have Withheld. Edinbugh: Cannongate, 2021. 1-16.

Crichlow, Wesley. “History, (Re)Memory, Testimony, and Biomythography: Charting a Buller Man’s Trinidadian Past” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 101-131.

Cuesta, Mabel. “Other Islanders on Lesbos: A Respective Look at the History of Lesbians in Cuba.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 132-141.

Lorde, Audre. “Extract from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 246-251.

Saint, Assotto. “Haiti: A Memory Journey.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 320-324.

Silvera, Makeda. “Man Royal and Sodomites: Some Thoughts on the Invisibility of Afro-Caribbean Lesbians.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 344- 354.

Curiel, Ochy. “Autonomy in Lesbian-Feminist Politics.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 142-152.

King, Rosamond. “More Notes on the Invisibility of Caribbean Lesbians” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 191-196. Lee Kam, LeZlie. “Loud and Proud: The Story of a Brown Callaloo Dyke Coming Out in 1970s Toronto” in Marvellous Grounds. ed. Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa and Syrus Marcus Ware. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2018. 61-69.

Ramos, Juanita. “Bayamon, Brooklyn y yo.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 305-315.

Arenas, Reinaldo. “Eroticism.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 34-50.

Brand, Dionne. “Elizete, Beckoned.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 70-77. De Jesus, Pedro. “The Portrait” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 158-172.

Lorde, Audre. “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” Sister, Outsider. Freedom: The Crossing Press, 1984. 53-59. Wekker Gloria. “Mati-ism and Black Lesbianism: Two Idealtypical Expressions of Female Homosexuality in Black Communities of the Diaspora” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 368-381.

Nimblett, Anton. “Time and Tide.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 261-267.

Nimblett, Anton. "The Simplest Acts: Reflections on Colin Robinson" in sx salon 37, 2021

Powell, Patricia. “Dale and Ian.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 296-303.

Robinson, Colin. “The Mechanic.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 316-319.

Robinson, Colin. “Unfinished work” in You have You Father Hard Head. Peepal Tree Press, 2016.

Scott, Lawrence. “I Want To Follow My Friend”. In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 336-343.

Thomas, H. Nigel. “Jerome”. In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 355-359.

Cliff, Michelle. “Ecce Homo.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 97-100.

Doyle, R. Erica. “Tante Merle” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 173-176.

Mootoo, Shani. “Out on Main Street” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 252-260.

Obejas, Achy. “We came all the way from Cuba So you could Dress Like this?” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 268-280.

Fumagalli, Maria Cristina, Bénédicte Ledent & Roberto del Valle Alcalá. “Introduction” in The Cross-dressed Caribbean. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Glave, Thomas. “Whose Caribbean?: An Allegory in Part.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 34-50

King, Rosamond S. “Re/Presenting Self and Other: Trans Deliverance in Caribbean Texts.” Callaloo 31.2 (2008):581-599.

Mootoo, Shani. “On Becoming an Indian Starboy” in The Cross-dressed Caribbean. Eds. Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Bénédicte Ledent & Roberto del Valle Alcalá.Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. 167-173. Santos Febres, Mayra. “The Caribbean and Transvestism” in The Cross-dressed Caribbean. Eds. Maria Cristina Fumagalli, Bénédicte Ledent & Roberto del Valle Alcalá. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. 159-166

Alvarez, Aldo. “Property Values.” In Our Caribbean. ed. Thomas Glave. Durham: Duke University Press 2008. 21-33.

Gill, Lyndon K. “Chatting Back an Epidemic: Caribbean gay men, HIV/AIDS, and the Uses of Erotic Subjectivity”. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies. 2012, Vol. 18: 2/3: 277-295.

Robinson, Colin. “Sojourner: An Abandoned Manifest” In Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Writing ed by G. Winston James and Other Countries, 2007.

Sealy, Godfrey. “One of Our Sons in Missing” in You Can Lead A Horse To Water And Other Plays (ed.) Judy Stone. Oxford: Macmillan Caribbean, 2005.

Quashie, Kevin. “Everyday Sex” in Think Again. New York and LA: New York State Black Gay Network and AIDS Project Los Angeles, 2003. 48-51.

Our Caribbean: A Gathering Of Lesbian And Gay Writing From The Antilles