Wednesday 25th July 2012  6:00 PM

The Writing Life With Angelique V. Nixon

Dr. Angelique V. Nixon, poet, community worker, and scholar, presents "Silent No Longer - Gender and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature & Culture" at Buy the Book, Wednesday, July 25th, 6-8pm.

During her presentation, Dr. Nixon will offer an introduction to the themes of gender and sexuality in Caribbean cultural production, and discuss how Caribbean artists have re-imagined love, sex/gender, and desire, with particular attention to the works of BWSI's Visiting Writer Patricia Powell.

This event is free and open to all!

Dr. Angelique V. Nixon is an Afro-Caribbean woman writer, scholar-activist, teacher, community worker, and poet -- born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas. She earned her Ph.D. in English specializing in Caribbean literature and culture at the University of Florida in 2008. Currently, she is a professor at Susquehanna University in the Department of English and Creative Writing. She is in the process of publishing her first scholarly book titled "Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature and Culture." Angelique teaches and writes about Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, feminist and postcolonial theories, and gender and sexuality studies. Her work as a scholar and poet has been published widely in academic and creative journals, namely Anthurium, Black Renaissance Noire, Journal of Caribbean Literatures, MaComere, ProudFlesh, small axe salon, and WomanSpeak. Angelique works through her writing to disrupt silences, challenge systems of oppression, and carve spaces for resistance and desire.

Alongside her academic and creative work, Angelique facilitates a number of community-based projects: namely the grassroots healing collective Ayiti Resurrect, as a core organizer of the 2012 delegation to Leogane, Haiti; and curriculum development with a team of educators and activists in New York and Detroit ? building a social and environmental justice curriculum using popular education models. Angelique is also co-chair of Caribbean Regional board of the International Resource Network, which connects activists, researchers, and artists who do work on diverse genders and sexualities; she is co-editor of their new online multi-media collection "Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire and Belonging" launched in June at www.caribbeanhomophobias.org.