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Small Axe 74, July 2024

Contributors

Jacqueline Couti is the Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French Studies at Rice University and chevalier de l'ordre des palmes académiques. Her research and teaching interests explore the transatlantic and transnational interconnections between cultural productions from continental France and its former colonies. Her work examines the constructions of gender, race, sexuality, identity politics, and nationalism. She recently co-edited a collective volume with Anny Curtius, Women, Theory, Praxis, and Performativities: Transoceanic Entanglements, forthcoming with Liverpool University Press. She also co-edited with Jennifer Boittin, a special issue of the Journal of Women's History: “Debout & Déter / Standing Up & Determined: Black Women on the Move, Black Feminists in French (Post)Imperial Contexts” (September 2023). She is the author of Sex, Sea, and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses 1924–1948 (2021) and Dangerous Creole Liaisons (2016).

You can find her on social media @jc8fc on Instagram/Thread and @doctorjc Bluesky

Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan is an Indo-Trinidadian queer scholar-activist. Her book Erotic Cartographies: Decolonization and the Queer Caribbean Imagination (2022, Rutgers University Press) has won the Gordon and Sybil K. Lewis Award at the Caribbean Studies Association. She’s a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta GA. 

You can find her @erotic.cartographies on Instagram  

Wigbertson Julian Isenia is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. They have been published in the Dutch Journal of Gender Studies and Feminist Review and cocurated exhibitions at IHLIA LGBTI Heritage such as Nos Tei (We Are Here; 2019) and House of Hiv: The Stories Behind Forty Years of Community Initiatives (2022).

You can find them on social media: 

Facebook @WigberstsonJulianIsenia / LinkedIn: @ WigberstsonJulianIsenia / X: julian_isenia /  Bluesky: @julianisenia.bsky.social/  Instagram/threads: julian_isenia

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora and Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance. His books of fiction include Uñas pintadas de azul/Blue Fingernails and Abolición del pato. He appears as Lola von Miramar in the YouTube series Cooking with Drag Queens.

You can find him on social media: 

Facebook: larrylafountain / X (Twitter): larrylafountain / Instagram: lolavonmiramar

LinkedIn: lawrlafo / Academia.edu: LarryLaFountain / Bluesky: larrylafountain.bsky.social