Ph.D. (University Florida), M.A. (Florida Atlantic University), B.Sc. (Nova Southeastern University)
Dr. Angelique V. Nixon is a Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer, artist, and scholar-activist. She is a Lecturer (with Tenure) and Graduate Studies Coordinator at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at The UWI St. Augustine. Her research and teaching areas include Caribbean and postcolonial studies, African diaspora literatures, gender and sexuality studies, tourism and diaspora studies, and transnational migrations. Dr. Nixon holds a Ph.D. in English and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies and Gender Research from the University of Florida, where she specialised in Caribbean and African diaspora literatures and postcolonial, feminist and gender studies. She also holds a M.A. in English and Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from Florida Atlantic University and a B.Sc. in Accounting and Minors in Humanities and Global Studies from Nova Southeastern University. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Africana Studies focused on “Migration and Theories of Africana” at New York University.
Angelique’s research, poetry, and artwork have been published and featured widely. She is author of Saltwater Healing – A Myth Memoir and Poems – an art and poetry chapbook collection (2013). Her scholarly book Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture (2015) won the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities. Her current research investigates Caribbean freedom, social movements and decolonial poetics at the crossroads of climate and migration crisis and unsustainable development. Angelique has been active in Caribbean movements for social and environmental justice for many years, and she is committed to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial politics, and Black liberation. She is also director of the feminist LGBTQI civil society organisation, CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice, Trinidad & Tobago.
“In your work, be accountable to the space and community.”
Project Lead, Human Rights Grant Award – 2017-2021 (completed)
Successful Award for “Respect for fundamental human rights and freedoms in Trinidad and Tobago” Grant from the European Commission, Trinidad and Tobago Delegation (Europe/Aid/151167/DD/ACT/TT).
Project Highlights – Outputs and Impact:
Research
Education - Training and Workshops
Cross-Learning and Intersectional Actions
Public Campaigns
Policy and Legislation Advocacy: Campaigned for Legal Protection against Discrimination (to Amend the Equal Opportunity Act and add protections including LGBTI status); Developed the 2020 LGBTI Policy Agenda based on LGBTQI working-class Lifestories and Community Engagement.
Project Website and Knowledge Online Portal in partnership with Caribbean IRN (to host and maintain the site beyond the project) – www.portal.caribbeansexualities.org. Launched 2018.
Book Project – Working Title: “Submerged Freedom and Decolonial Justice: Caribbean Sexualities, Migrant Politics and Climate Crisis” - Scholarly Book, In Progress.
The book project engages Caribbean sexual-cultural politics through an investigation of Caribbean social justice movements and cultural productions at the intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, migration and the environment. It is a multi-disciplinary project that seeks to challenge public discourse and offer decolonial models for social (sexual, gender, racial, economic), climate and ecological justice.
International
National (selected)
Selected Events
For more Publications – Academia.edu:
-- https://sta-uwi.academia.edu/AngeliqueVNixon
Appointed Position (2021 to 2023)
Caribbean Regional UN & EU Spotlight Initiative. Civil Society Regional Reference Group.
National Appointments - Government of Trinidad and Tobago
Ministry of Labour - HIV Workplace Advocacy Advisory Board
- Sub-Committee Work – Communications and Advocacy
Chair, Working Board of Directors
CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice
Co-Director
Caribbean IRN (International Resource Network)
Member | Coordinator, Sexualities Working Group
Caribbean Studies Association
Member
Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars
Member
Association of Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
Member
National Women's Studies Association