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Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Queer Liberation in the Anglophone Caribbean? -- 1. Liberating the Queer Caribbean -- 2. On the Ground: Challenging Sexual Politics in the Region -- 3. Between the Walls: Ruination and New Sexual Worlds in Barbados -- 4. Queens, Kings, and Kinship Networks: Queer Culture and Trans(gressive) Community Making -- 5. Rumshops, Nightlife, and the Radical Praxis of Internal Exile -- Coda: A Defiant Politics of Hope in the Queer Caribbean -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Series Titles.

In the Anglophone Caribbean, international queer human rights activists strategically located within and outside of the region have dominated interventions seeking to address issues affecting people across the region; a trend that is premised on an idea that the Caribbean is extremely homophobic and transphobic, resulting in violence and death for people who defy dominant sexual and gender boundaries. Human rights activists continue to utilize international financial and political resources to influence these interventions and the region's engagement on issues of homophobia, transphobia, discrimination, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This focus, however, elides the deeply complex nature of queerness across different spaces and places, and fails to fully account for the nuances of queer sexual and gender politics and community making across the Caribbean. Defiant Bodies: Making Queer Community in the Anglophone Caribbean problematizes the neocolonial and homoimperial nature of queer human rights activism in in four Anglophone Caribbean nations -- Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago -- and thinks critically about the limits of human rights as a tool for seeking queer liberation. It also offers critical insight into the ways that queer people negotiate, resist, and disrupt homophobia, transphobia, and discrimination by mobilizing "on the ground" and creating transgressive communities within the region

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1. Centring Praxis -- 1. Tales from the Field: Myths and Methodologies for Researching Same Sex-Desiring People in the Caribbean -- 2. Inclusion of LGBTQ Students in Jamaican Teacher Education: Religiosity, Respectability and Resistance -- 3. Level 5: Betwixt and Between "Homophobia" in Trinidad and Tobago -- Part 2. Queering the Spiritual, Queering the Artistic -- 4. I Am a Messenger: Spiritual Baptism and the Queer Afterlife of Faith -- 5. A Symphony in Four Movements: Religion, Syphilis and Homosexuality in Marlon James's -- 6. The Sodom of the New World: A Queer Claim to Historical Belonging -- 7. Iconicity and Eroticism in the Photography of Archie Lindo -- 8. Brave "Battymen" and the (Im)Possibilities of a Straight Dancehall -- Part 3. Telling Stories, Finding Self -- 9. In Search of the Dead: (Un)Marked Graves and the Sea of We -- 10. "What a Writer Is": A Presentation Given at the Beyond Homophobia Conference -- 11. "Hey Lara" -- Part 4. Activism and Action -- 12. Toward a Working-Class Queer Agenda and Leadership in Jamaica -- 13. Pride, Vulgarity and Imagination -- 14. So: Queer Life Beyond and Against Homophobia -- Afterword -- Contributors.