Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based, feminist writer, artist, academic and activist. Nixon teaches at The University of the West Indies St. Augustine's, and is a director of ''CAISO: Sex & Gender Justice'' organization in Trinidad and Tobago. She is the author of the 2015 non-fiction book ''Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture.''

Early life and education

Nixon was born in

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and raised in Trinidad. Nixon has a bachelor's degree in accounting and humanities from

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, a master's degree in English from

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, and a PhD in English from the

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. She also has a graduate certificate in women’s studies and gender research from the

. She did a postdoctoral fellowship in

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, focusing on migration and theories of Africana.

Career

Nixon works, writers and makes art about

intersectional feminism Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these intersecting and overlapping factor ...

, Black liberation and

decolonization Decolonization is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby Imperialism, imperial nations establish and dominate foreign territories, often overseas. The meanings and applications of the term are disputed. Some scholar ...

. Nixon is a tenured lecturer at the

University of the West Indies at St. Augustine The University of the West Indies at St. Augustine is a public university, public research institute, research university in St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. It is one of 5 general campuses in the University of the West Indies system, which a ...

's Institute for Gender and Development Studies where, from 2017 to 2021, she led the ''Sexual Culture of Justice'' program that produced local and regional analysis on how to approach sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination towards LGBTQI+ people. Her teaching focusses on African diaspora literature, diaspora, migration, tourism, gender and sexuality, Caribbean and post-colonial studies. She is a director of the

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based feminist LGBTQI+ organization ''CAISO: Sex & Gender Justice''. In 2021, Nixon called on the government of Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency on gender based violence.

Selected publications

* ''Saltwater Healing: A Myth Memoir and Poems, Poinciana Paper Press 2013'' * ''Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture,''

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, 2015, - 2016 winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award, Best Humanities Book.

Personal life

Nixon is queer; she lives in Trinidad.

References

External links

Nixon's official website

CAISO: Sex & Gender Justice - official webpage
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