Fractal Repair: Queer Histories of Modern Jamaica

By Matthew Chin NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Writing about Jamaica’s queer pasts can engage the work of political repair.

Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940

By Julio Capo 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

“Fairyland” came to represent radically different things to discrete groups of people.

The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ

Both anti-discrimination and pro-gay activists appeal to features of a pre-colonial past.