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

Nova Southeastern University Nova Southeastern University (NSU or, informally, Nova) is a private nonprofit research university with its main campus in Davie, Florida. The university consists of 14 total colleges, centers, and schools offering over 150 programs of study. ...

, 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 Africana studies at

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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 aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege. Intersectionality identifies multiple factors of adva ...

, Black liberation and decolonization. Nixon is a tenured lecturer at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine'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

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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,'' University Press of Mississippi, 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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