Angelique V. Nixon

Dr. Angelique V. Nixon is a Black Queer writer, artist, scholar, and activist. Born and raised in the Bahamas, she has been living and working in Trinidad and Tobago for over a decade. She is a social justice educator and community worker with over 20 years of experience and leadership in community-based organisations and academic institutions. Her research and creative works are available widely; she is author of two books – the poetry and art chapbook titled Saltwater Healing and the scholarly award-winning book titled Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture. Angelique is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, gender and sexuality studies, Caribbean and Black feminisms, tourism and diaspora studies, and transnational migrations. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in 2008, where she specialised in postcolonial and gender studies. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Africana Studies at New York University in 2009 and has held academic posts at University of Connecticut (2009-2011) and SusquehannaUniversity (2011-2014). She joined The UWI IGDS in 2014 as a Fulbright scholar and in 2015 as a lecturer, where she is now a tenured senior faculty member and coordinator of graduate studies. Her current research investigates race, sexuality, migration, and climate crisis at the crossroads of Caribbean freedom, social movements, and decolonial poetics.

For over 20 years, Angelique has been worked in social justice movements and organised through civil society and community organisations regionally and internationally. Angelique is active in Caribbean movements for social and climate justice and has developed several community-based projects to facilitate social change, notably the healing collective Ayiti Resurrect, which organised programmes in Leogane, Haiti (2010-2017) through annual delegations focused on arts, environmental sustainability, and women’s empowerment. Since 2009, Angelique has been co-director of the Caribbean IRN (digital resource network on diverse genders and sexualities), which published two multi-media collections and organised digital archives/spaces to support Caribbean LGBTQI+ visibility and knowledge. Further since 2016, she has served as a working director of the feminist LGBTQI civil society (non-profit) organisation CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice in Trinidad and Tobago, where she is chair of the Board and spearheads resource mobilisation, community engagement, and operations, with oversight of various projects and programmes. Angelique is fiercely committed to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, environmental justice, and Black liberation striving to disrupt silences, challenge oppressive systems, and create spaces for resistance and empowerment.