IRN Caribbean

As more scholarship and activism – in and outside of the region – focus on issues related to diverse genders and sexualities in the Caribbean, there is an increasing need for a clearinghouse to exist in order to access information, research, and resources, and to connect individuals from around the region and the world. The Caribbean Region of the IRN is developing as such a resource for people and organizations inside and outside the region. Furthermore, while the larger IRN is focused on academic scholarship, the Caribbean IRN promotes activism and creative work, as well as different kinds of engaged scholarship which seek to question, provoke and illuminate various ways of thinking around sexual minorities. The Caribbean IRN also plans to support regional projects, organizations, and collaborations.

 

A few of our priorities include building our web presence, sharing information, establishing institutional links with organizations in the region, and collecting materials to share among researchers, activists, writers, and artists.

A critical partnership is with the Digital Library of the Caribbean where we have started the Caribbean IRN collection.

Feel free to send us materials at caribbeanirn (at) gmail (dot) com.

The countries which we are covering as part of the Caribbean region are Montserrat, Aruba, St. Maarten/St. Martin, Curacao,  Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States of America Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Saba, Statia and Bonaire.