Angelique Nixon

Angelique V. Nixon is Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer and artist, carving out a unique space, that on the surface may seem at odds – creative and scholar, lecturer and activist, poet and researcher. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in 2008, where she specialised in postcolonial and gender studies. Her research and creative work has been published 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 active in Caribbean movements for social and environmental justice and is committed to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, and Black liberation. Through activism, writing, and art, Angelique strives to disrupt silences, affirm healing and carve spaces for resistance and desire. Her current work investigates Caribbean freedom, social movements and decolonial poetics at the crossroads of migration and climate crisis and unsustainable development.

Angelique is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. She is also the director of the feminist LGBTI civil society organisation CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Elements of Decolonial Healing Justice | Angelique Nixon | TEDxPortofSpain 2020 Talks