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Tag: Deray McKesson

Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place and Surpassing Small Minds

22nd April 201928th April 2019  KUCHENGA

Our contributor, Kuchenga Shenjé, offers a personal reflection on the importance of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. Has Kincaid’s text aged well in a Caribbean wrestling with the baggage of colonial rule and its residual prejudice towards queer individuals?

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Posted in Arts, Books, OpinionTagged: A Small Place, Anna Himali Howard, Antigua, Cherelle Skeete, Deray McKesson, Dr Brittney C. Cooper, Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, Frantz Fanon, Gully Queens, Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid, Kid Fury, Kingston, Lady Phyll Opoku, Martinique, misogynoir, neo-colonialism, Nicola Alexis, Queerness, Susan Sontag, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Gate Theatre, The New Yorker, The read Podcast, UK Black Pride
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