Contributors

Greg Beckett is an assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College. He has published articles in Small Axe, the Journal of Haitian Studies, American Anthropologist, Social and Economic Studies, Reviews in Anthropology, and PoLAR. His main areas of interest are political theory, existential anthropology, and the history of ideas. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the lived experience of crisis in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Yarimar Bonilla is an associate professor in the departments of Latino and Caribbean Studies and Anthropology at Rutgers University. She specializes in social movements, colonial legacies, and questions of race, sovereignty, and citizenship across the Americas. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment (2015) and is currently completing a second monograph on the politics of annexation in Puerto Rico.Chenee Daley, the second-place winner of the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition in poetry, is currently studying literature and music at the University of the West Indies, Mona.Jordache A. Ellapen was born in South Africa and currently lives in the United States. He is an assistant professor of the literatures and media of Africa and the African diaspora in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. He served as a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis from 2015 to 2017. He is the coeditor of Mzansi at the Movies: Cinema and Film Culture in South Africa (forthcoming) and “We Remember Differently”: Race, Memory, Imagination (2011). He is currently writing a book, “Against Afronormativity: Queering Afro-Asian Intimacies and the Aesthetics of Blackness in South Africa,” that examines the relationship between political culture and culture politics in South Africa.Soyini Ayanna Forde, the first-place winner of the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition in poetry, is from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has appeared in Apogee, Cleaver, Moko, sx salon, the Caribbean Writer, and Black Renaissance Noire. Her poetry chapbook, Taste of Hibiscus (2013), was published by Dancing Girl Press. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Best American Essays. She is very interested in eating all the Julie mangoes and learning from the resilience of strong women.Christienna D. Fryar is an assistant professor of history at SUNY Buffalo State. She is completing her first book, “The Measure of Empire: Disaster and British Imperialism in Postemancipation Jamaica,” which explores how imperial disaster politics belied contemporary popular narratives of Jamaica's ruin in the eight decades after emancipation. She has also published in Slavery and Abolition and the Journal of British Studies.Andil Gosine is an associate professor in arts and politics at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. A conceptual artist, his solo exhibitions include Coolie Coolie Viens, coproduced by McIntosh Gallery at Western University and touring through the end of 2018. Coauthor of Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada: An Introduction (2008), his research has been published in several journals, including Topia Journal of Cultural Studies, Social Justice, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Masculinities, Sexualities, South Asian Studies, and Alternatives. He edited the groundbreaking “Sexualities” issue of the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. More information about his research activities and arts practice is available at www.andilgosine.com.G. A. E. Griffin is a clinical psychologist and professor of psychology in the Department of Critical Theory and Social Justice at Occidental College, Los Angeles. His work on the Eastern Caribbean, some of which has previously appeared in Small Axe, concerns the critical intersection of postmodern and postcolonial theory.Roshini Kempadoo is an international photographer, media artist, and scholar creating photographs, artwork, and writing that interprets, analyzes, and reimagines historical experiences and memories as women's visual narratives. Recent exhibitions of work and writing include Ghosts: Keith Piper and Roshini Kempadoo (2015) and Creole in the Archive: Imagery, Presence, and Location of the Caribbean Figure (2016).Sharlene Khan is a South African visual artist who uses masquerading as a postcolonial strategy to interrogate her heritage as well as the constructedness of identity via rote education, art discourses, historical narratives, and popular culture. She holds a PhD (Arts) from Goldsmiths College, London, and is currently senior lecturer of the course Art History and Visual Culture, at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.Chelsey L. Kivland is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College. Writing about politics, insecurity, and public art in contemporary urban Haiti, she has published essays in Cultural Anthropology, PoLAR, and Journal of Haitian Studies. She is preparing a book titled “Street Sovereigns: Young Men in Search of the State in Urban Haiti,” which follows the lives and deaths of street leaders.Ayanna Gillian Lloyd is a fiction and creative nonfiction writer from Trinidad and Tobago. Her work has been published in the Caribbean Writer and Moko. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Competition and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, and she is the second-place winner of the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition for short fiction. She is a consulting fiction editor at Moko and a 2016 Callaloo Writing Workshop Fellow.Joy Mahabir is the author of Miraculous Weapons: Revolutionary Ideology in Caribbean Culture (2003), an interdisciplinary study of progressive novelists, poets, visual artists, and musicians from the Caribbean. She is the coeditor of Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature (2012) and has published articles on Caribbean literature, calypso music, chutney music, and Indo-Caribbean women's jewelry. Her creative writing includes poetry and the novel Jouvert (2006).Kelly Sinnapah Mary (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) is a contemporary artist born and based in Guadeloupe. She is interested in the processes of identity construction in postslavery colonial contexts, particularly in the production of gendered power. Her work has been exhibited at Perez Art Museum in Miami, Fondation Clément in Martinique, Musée Shoelcher in Guadeloupe, Maëlle Galerie in Paris, and the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art in New York, among many other sites.Nalini Mohabir is a postcolonial geographer at Concordia University, Montreal. Her research focuses on migration and diaspora, including the legacies of indentureship. Her writing has appeared in Small Axe, Macomère, Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, Habitat International, Interventions, and Ex Plus Ultra; in the edited collection Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses (2010); and in Stabroek News (Guyana), New Indian Express (India), and the Guardian (UK).Patricia Mohammed is a professor of gender and cultural studies in and the chair of the School for Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her academic publications include Gender Negotiations among Indians in Trinidad, 1917–1947 (2001) and Imaging the Caribbean: Culture and Visual Translation (2009). She has directed seventeen documentary films, among them the award-winning Coolie Pink and Green (2009) and City on a Hill (2015).Wendy Nanan lives and works in Port of Spain. Since obtaining her BFA in painting in England in 1979, she has shown consistently in Trinidad and abroad, in all mediums, but especially in painted-relief sculptures themed on contemporary issues of the modern creolized West Indian society and how the feminist viewpoint and her Indian ethnicity are placed within it.Amanda T. Perry is a PhD candidate in comparative literature at New York University. She focuses on Caribbean literature and history, working in English, French, and Spanish. Her dissertation project reconsiders the Cuban Revolution as a Caribbean event, examining its impact on literary and political discourse in the anglophone and francophone Caribbean in the 1960s and 1970s. She has previously published work on British abolitionism.Portia Subran, the first-place winner of the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition in short fiction, is a Trinidadian artist and writer. In 2013, she was announced the winner of the Potbake Productions 2011–13 Caribbean Short Story Competition for her work “Unclipped Wings,” which was later published in the short story collection Jewels of the Caribbean (2014). Her short story “A New Life in a New Time” was published in the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean (2016).

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