Life Portrait & Libations: a Celebration of Colin Robinson
In remembrance of Trinidadian poet and LGBTQ+ advocate Colin Robinson, there will be an online memorial service that is open to all on Sunday 28th March. Please find the details of the event below. Read some of Robinson's poems that were published in sx salon here.
Ian Randle Press publishes Methodologies in Caribbean Research on Gender and Sexuality
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"
Zora's Daughters co-hosts to facilitate "Honoring the Ancestors: Black Feminist Citational Praxis, an interactive workshop"
Date: Saturday, March 13th
Time: 3-4pm EST
"Wayward Archives and Decolonial Interventions: Examining Intimate Histories with the Virgin Islands Studies Collective."
An anthropologist, an artist, a writer, and a philosopher collaboratively engaged the prison records of four Afro Caribbean women who led a 19th century labor riot in St. Croix, Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands). Join the VI Studies Collective for a panel about intimate histories, collaborative research, and Black feminist decolonial archival interventions.
The VI Studies Collective consists of:
Intl. Women's Day Screening of Madan Sara & Review by Régine Jean-Charles
Intl. Women's Day Screening of Madan Sara & Review by Régine Jean-Charles
Date: Monday, March 8th
Time: 6pm EST
From the screening's Eventbrite:
Régine Jean-Charles to moderate "Haiti, Beauty, and Justice in 2021: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat and Évelyne Trouillot"
Date: Tuesday, March 9th
Time: 7pm EST
From the event website:
During this International Women’s Day conversation moderated by W. Ford Schumann Faculty Fellow in Democratic Studies Régine Jean-Charles, Évelyne Trouillot and Edwidge Danticat will read from their fiction and share their unique perspectives about Haiti’s past, present, and future.
"American Violence and the Haunting Diagnosis of Richard Hofstadter," an essay by Harvey Neptune
Historian Richard Hofstadter haunts US history. And for good reason.
sx salon 35 now available
sx salon 35 now available
The latest issue of sx salon is now available online.
In sx salon 35, we are pleased to present Andil Gosine on the work of artist Wendy Nanan (whose self-titled solo exhibition at the Art Museum of the Americas has been postponed because of the pandemic); Ronald Cummings on the 2019 film Shella Record: A Reggae Mystery, a Canadian filmmaker’s search for the story of Jamaican singer Sheila Rickards; Kelly Baker Josephs on the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of Savacou and how we might consider the
Dixa Ramírez D'Oleo links the Kardashians' exploitation of black femininity to French and Spanish American history
Small Axe editorial committee member Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo recently featured on the panel, "Situating the Kardashians: Skin, Theft, Ops," where she discussed how the Kardashian's exploitation of Black femininity has a long history in the French and Spanish Americas. The panel was part of the Conversations on Race series by the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. Watch the recording of the discussion here on YouTube and read more information about the roundtable below:
Vanessa K. Valdés edits Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
Vanessa K. Valdés edits Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean
Small Axe editorial committee member Vanessa K. Valdés has edited Racialized Visions: Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean, which was published this month by Suny Press. Read the book's blurb and Valdés' bio below and order the book here.