Over the past ten years there has been remarkable growth in studies on sexuality in the Caribbean. One of the most underrepresented areas of these analyses, however, remains the intersection between queerness and Indo-Caribbean ...

These photographs are part of photographer and filmmaker Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel’s Home Away from Home Project, an in-progress multimedia project about the global South Asian diaspora.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar is elected Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago; it was overwhelming for Indo-Caribbean women of my generation for we had not dared to expect that this could happen. Yet we realize that the ascendancy ...

Four genres of Indo-Trinidadian dance—folk, film, chutney and classical—have opened spaces in which gender (as well as ethnic, national and class) identities are negotiated and chosen from an increasing variety of options. ...

Our understanding of the complex journeys of women of Indian ancestry through several centuries in the Caribbean and its diasporas is expanded in valuable ways by Rosanne Kanhai’s 2011 collection Bindi: The Multifaceted ...

This article examines suburban, adolescent Indo-Trinidadian girls’ engagement with gender-differential processes of modernization and creolization at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that girls’ experience of ...

The dominant notions of the Indo-Caribbean woman as Hindu, as passive, as heterosexual, as conservative, as submissive, as guardian of Indian culture via her body and her morality, continue to haunt us. This special issue ...

Cultural differences determine an ethnic group’s expectations regarding women’s roles, as well as how the group is perceived outside the community. Over time there have emerged archetypes of femininity but these archetypes ...