Dr. Angelique V. Nixon (she/her) is a Black queer feminist writer, scholar, and activist. Born and raised in the Bahamas, she is currently based in Trinidad and Tobago. She is sought after speaker and facilitator on intersecting issues related to social and climate justice, migration, and sexual and LGBTQI+ rights, among others. She is a social justice educator and community worker with two decades of experience and leadership in community-based organisations and academic institutions. Her research and creative work 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.

 

Dr. Nixon is a senior lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS) at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, gender and sexuality studies, 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 Susquehanna University (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 faculty 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. 

 

Angelique is very active in Caribbean movements for human rights and social 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 spearheads operations, resource mobilisation, and community engagement, as well as coordinating various programmes. Angelique is fiercely committed in all her work to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, climate justice, and Black liberation.