SX Blog Archive

sx blog archive

April 2024

Excessive Leisure and Ecological Destruction on Puerto Rico’s Coasts
In Memory of Maryse Condé (11 February 1934-2 April 2024)

December 2023

In Honor of Edward Baugh 
Congratulations to Belinda Edmondson
New Titles from Editora Educación Emergente (EEE)

November 2023

Check Out Kelly Sinnapah Mary's exhibition curated by Andil Gosine
Small Axe 72 is now available!
Coral and Ash

October 2023

Upcoming Caribbean Modernism Symposium

September 2023

Announcing Boat People: A Conversation
Small Axe 71 is now available!
Symposium on Otto and Hermina Huiswoud: Modern Black Diasporic Radicals
sx salon 43 available now!

August 2023

Boston Review publishes David Scott's essay on C.L.R. James

March 2023

'Copresence' Before the Archive

December 2022

Small Axe 69 is now available!  

October 2022

Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured @20

September 2022

SX Welcomes Our New Editorial Assistants 

August 2022

Thanks to our Editorial Assistants

July 2022

Small Axe 68 is now available!  

March 2022

sx66 is now live!

October 2021

Andil Gosine celebrates Colin Robinson's 60th Birthday with Nature's Wild

September 2021

The Crisis of Haitians at the US-Mexico Border
Rest In Peace Charles W. Mills (1951-2021)
sx65 is now available!
Becoming Julia de Burgos now translated into Spanish

August 2021

sx editorial committee member Andil Gosine wins award for first book

June 2021

Vanessa Pérez-Rosario interviewed by Poesía en acción

May 2021

sx 64 is now available!
sx62's "Debt, Crisis, and Resurgence in Puerto Rico" receives honorable mention

April 2021

Echarpalantismo: Neoliberal Subjectivities in the Colony of Puerto Rico
Earth, World, Ethics: Conversations in Black and Caribbean Studies
Rosamond S. King to celebrate new collection with book launch party

March 2021

CuCa3: Cuir Caribbean Voices/Voces Queer del Caribe
Life Portrait & Libations: a Celebration of Colin Robinson
Ian Randle Press publishes Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality
Zora's Daughters co-hosts to facilitate "Honoring the Ancestors: Black Feminist Citational Praxis, an interactive workshop"
"Wayward Archives and Decolonial Interventions: Examining Intimate Histories with the Virgin Islands Studies Collective."
Intl. Women's Day Screening of Madan Sara & Review by Régine Jean-Charles
Régine Jean-Charles to moderate "Haiti, Beauty, and Justice in 2021: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Évelyne Trouillot"

January 2021

"American Violence and the Haunting Diagnosis of Richard Hofstadter," an essay by Harvey Neptune

December 2020

sx salon 35 now available
Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo links the Kardashians' exploitation of black femininity to French and Spanish American history
Vanessa K. Valdés edits Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
UVI's Distinguished Culture & History Lecture Series now available to watch

November 2020

David Scott's discussion on Stuart Hall's ethics now on YouTube
Rest in peace Michel Monnin, 1940-2020
Ethics & Caribbean Philosophy: David Scott on Stuart Hall's Ethics
Kaiama L. Glover's new book A Regarded Self out next month
The Caribbean Digital VII
Régine Michelle Jean-Charles to speak at 'Of Islands and Archives: Celebrating Île en île and World Literature in French'
Following the Revolution: The Transnational Activism of Blanca and Juan Moncaleano, 1911-1916

October 2020

Institute of Jamaica Heritage Fest 2020
Dark Laboratory Launches Digital Decolonial Glossary
Stony Brook LACS presents: 'CuCa: Cuir Caribbean Voices/Voces Cuir del Caribe'
Anthropology podcast Zora's Daughters featured on Columbia news
Rosamond S. King to Lead a Close Reading of Natalie Diaz’s “My Brother at 3 A.M.”

September 2020

LACS kicks off Fall with series Greater Left/Greater Caribbean: Undertheorized Radical Movements in the Archipelago
sx salon's creative editor Rosamond S. King to feature in Brooklyn Book Festival
Black Women Radicals present "Caribbean Feminisms" digital event series
New podcast Zora's Daughters focuses on Black feminist anthropology

August 2020

Last Sundays by the National Gallery of Jamaica ft. Tori Love
Listen to Writing Home, a brand new podcast of American voices from the Caribbean

July 2020

sx 62 is now available!
sx salon 34 now available!
VLOSA Tent-Rotterdam Exhibition
#silencedpast: dialogues on global anti-racist struggle amongst Black women scholars
"Words, Race, and the Pandemic:" an essay by Rosamond S. King, sx salon creative editor

June 2020

Resolutely Black: A Book Discussion with the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs
Small Axe stands with Black Lives Matter protestors
Art Museum of the Americas presents WENDY NANAN, an #AMAatHome exhibition

April 2020

InfiniteBody interviews sx salon's Rosamond S. King
archipelagos journal issue (4) is now available!
Small Axe wishes you well during the COVID-19 pandemic

March 2020

Small Axe 61 is now available!
3/19: WENDY NANAN at the ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES AMA | ART MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAS
Nightboat Offsite Reading & Celebration AWP 2020: Friday, March 6th, 2020 from 5:30-7:30pm at La Quinta Inn & Suites in San Antonio, TX
AWP San Antonio Office Hours & Friends Reading: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 at Grand Hyatt San Antonio (3:00-4:30pm)
The 12th Annual Festival of Language 2020: March 4, 2020 at Cherrity Bar in San Antonio, TX (4:30-9:30 pm)

February 2020

ANCESTRAL QUEENDOM: Reflections on the Prison Records of the Rebel Queens of the 1878 Fireburn in St. Croix, USVI

January 2020

IN ALL MY DREAMS: A Visual Installation
#1619Project and the Anti-Racist Road Not Taken, an essay by Harvey Neptune

November 2019

"The Caribbean Digital VI" conference by sx archipelagos
British Black Cultural Archives digitized by Google

April 2019

Watch the livestream for "The Jamaican 1950s: A Small Axe Symposium"

January 2019

Congratulations to the 2018 Small Axe Literary Competition winners!

June 2018

Unpayable Debt: Capital, Violence, and the New Global Economy An interview with Frances Negrón-Muntaner

May 2018

The Caribbean Digital V

April 2018

Alex Gil, sx archipelagos editor, to deliver Distinguished Lecture at University of the West Indies, Mona 
The Context of Intellectual Friendship

March 2018

sx salon 27 is now available!
The Afro-Latinx Futures

February 2018

Filmmaker Frances Negrón-Muntaner in conversation with Vanessa Pérez-Rosario

January 2018

The Jamaican 1960s

December 2017

What's beyond the boundary of the shoreline? | Nadia Huggins | TEDxPortofSpain
Listening to Small Axe 54
sx salon 26 Available Online

November 2017

Listening to Becoming Julia de Burgos
SX 54 is Now Available!

October 2017

Yarimar Bonilla on Hurricane Maria

September 2017

A Statement on Hurricane Maria
No More a Fragile Thing- sx archipelagos Launches Sophomore Issue
A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros
A Statement on Hurricane Irma
THATCamp Caribe)
The Jamaican 1970s: A Symposium 
Listening to Non-Sovereign Futures
Women in Translation Month Q&A with Kaiama L. Glover

August 2017

sx salon 25 Available Online

July 2017

Listening to Small Axe 53
Vanessa K. Valdés on the "Father of Black History"
A Special Issue of Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Kaiama Glover Writes on Zombies in Public Culture

June 2017

sx salon books for review
Nicole Awai: Vistas on view at Lesley Heller Workspace
Digital Annotation of Musical Passage: A Voyage to 1688 Jamaica

May 2017

She'll Chew You Up: Tiana Reid on Safiya Sinclair and Tiphanie Yanique

April 2017

David Scott's Stuart Hall's Voice, Now Available
Listening to Small Axe 52
Small Axe 52 is now available!
A Caribbean Gallery of Art: An Interview with Juliet Ali
New book by Vanessa K. Valdés, Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
sx salon, issue 24 is now available!

March 2017

CFP: Commemorating 1917: A Discussion of Citizenship and Freedom in Caribbean Literature

February 2017

sx archipelagos Seeks Digital Scholarship for May 2017 Issue

January 2017

The Landscape of Desire
Coming Out, Coming Home
David Scott receives Distinguished Editor prize

December 2016

Thinking in and through the digital turn in Caribbean studies: The Caribbean Digital III

November 2016

2016 Small Axe Literary Competition
Celebrate Small Axe at ASA in Denver

October 2016

What Is Journal Work?: A Small Axe Conversation

September 2016

Nijah Cunningham Receives Costen Postdoctoral Fellowship
What is Journal Work? A Small Axe Conversation
What is Journal Work? A Small Axe Conversation
Kelly Baker Josephs receives Sterling Brown Professorship at Williams College
Kelly Baker Josephs receives Sterling Brown Professorship at Williams College