Beyond Homophobia
Moji Anderson & Erin C. MacLeod (editors)
Caribbean Studies, Volume 54, Number 1, January - June 2026
Beyond Homophobia aims to transform conventional discourses around queerness in the Caribbean. Based at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, it began with a symposium on queerness in that country and has since spawned three international conferences and an edited volume. Rejecting exclusionary narratives around LGBTQIA+ Caribbean people, the Beyond Homophobiaconference is a collaboration among academics from various disciplines, activists and artists in the fight against homo-and transphobia. We describe Beyond Homophobia's growing importance, its challenges, accomplishments and plans for the future and introduce the six pieces emerging from or inspired by the most recent conference that make up this Special Dossier of Caribbean Studies.
Caribbean Studies is a multidisciplinary academic journal published since 1961 by the Institute of Caribbean Studies, College of Social Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. The journal publishes original works on the Social Sciences and the Humanities in English, Spanish or French languages. It is divided in four parts: articles, research notes, book reviews (including review essays of multiple books and individual reviews), and news and events. At present one of the bi-annual issues is usually a special thematic one.
