Sexual Sovereignty in the Caribbean and its Diasporas
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This paper examines three attempts (filmic and literary) to create visibility for sexual minorities and attain LGBT rights. It argues that in struggles for visibility and legal equality, LGBT modes of representation and rights are delimited by the lingering coloniality of Third World state sovereignties. This forces LGBT groups to sacrifice sexual sovereignty for sexual justice in the wedge created by the disarticulations of sexual and Indigenous freedoms. The paper suggests that fights for Indigenous rights in the Caribbean can find increasing solidarity with those of other minority groups beyond the deep agnosia imposed by the history of race politics.
