Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean
Andil Gosine (Professor of Environmental Arts and Justice at York University) in conversation with Michelle Stephens, founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, moderated by Gaiutra Bahadur, Assistant Professor of Journalism at Rutgers-Newark. In Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean, Prof. Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the Caribbean (and in the Americas more broadly) has been overdetermined by a colonially influenced human/animal divide.