Queer Caribbeans: Resilience . Resistance . Reimagining
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Location: Island SPACE Caribbean Museum: 8000 W. Broward Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33388
Registration is required. RSVP here.
On view: May 10 - July 3, 2022
To commemorate Pride Month and Caribbean-American Heritage Month in June, Black LGBTQ+ Liberation, Inc., and the Caribbean Equality Project proudly present “Queer Caribbeans: Resilience, Resistance, and Reimagining,” a Caribbean LGBTQ+ exhibition in partnership with Island SPACE Caribbean Museum in South Florida. The exhibition features a historical retrospective showcase of the racial and cultural intersections of Caribbean LGBTQ+ rights activists. This multimedia installation highlights the pioneering work of Caribbean activists, organizers, and artists who set the foundation for victories within the Caribbean LGBTQ+ diasporic community and their contributions to the broader LGBTQ+ liberation movements in the United States. The LGBTQ+ collection builds on the Caribbean Equality Project’s 2019 inaugural iteration centering on Black and Brown, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender non-conforming, and queer Caribbean immigrants.
The Queer Caribbeans exhibition and archive document the intersectional Caribbeanness and LGBTQ+ rights activism with an extensive repository of photographs, news footage, posters, oral histories, and videos featuring interviews with well-respected Caribbean LGBTQ+ rights advocates. The exhibition features the work of the late Trinidadian-born activist Colin Robinson, Bahamian descent Florida State Senator Shevrin Jones, Guyanese-born LGBTQ and immigrant rights activist Mohamed Q. Amin, founder of Caribbean Equality Project, Jamaican descent G. Wright, founder of Black LGBTQ+ Liberation, Trinidadian-born actress, model, and author Dominique Jackson, and Jamaican-born writer and spoken word artist, Staceyann Chin.
Curated by G. Wright, Mohamed Q. Amin, and Nik Harris, the exhibition contribute to the national uprising of Black and Brown LGBTQ immigrant stories through a multidisciplinary approach to expand public education, visibility, civic engagement, and storytelling. This historic curation of Caribbean LGBTQ+ activism amplifies transnational organizing to dismantle post-colonial systematic oppression, laying the foundation for future generations of Queer and Trans Caribbean immigrants to be seen, heard, and affirmed through political and social activations.
The exhibition opens on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at Island SPACE Caribbean Museum (8000 W Broward Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33388) and will be on view until July 3, 2022.
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