Suzanne C Persard
Biographic Data
| ID | 1431966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne C Persard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne C |
| FAMILY NAME | Persard |
| SIGNATURE | PERSARD S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5215-3717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jahajee: A queer feminist history of Indo-Caribbean activism in New York City
This article traces a public history of queer feminist activism through the Indo-Caribbean organization Jahajee, formerly known as Jahajee Sisters. As the first organization in the U.S. committed to ending gender-based violence in Indo-Caribbean communities, the intergenerational activism of Jahajee has included queer and lesbian women from its founding nearly two decades ago. In this article, I demonstrate that queer feminist Indo-Caribbean acti…
Shattering History: An Archive of Queer Jamaica
From Calcutta to Kingston: A cartography of Coolitude
From Calcutta to Kingston: A cartography of Coolitude’ meditates on the ancestral inheritance of the indentured Indian diaspora through coordinates mapping time and space, tasks historically completed by imperial powers upon seizing colonial lands. In this poetic-prose, coordinates anchor an origin – yet sugarcane becomes a new set of coordinates, following the call to unmoor the geographical fixity of origins invoked by Khal Torabully in his the…
Archives in drag: Performing nachaniya towards a queer theory of indenture
Archives in drag: Performing nachaniya towards a queer theory of indenture’ takes as its object the figure of the Indo-Jamaican nachaniya dancer as a paradigm for re-thinking queer theories of indenture. Nachaniya is a highly stylized Indo-Jamaican folk dance featuring a heterosexual male dancing in drag. The performance, which can be traced to the nineteenth century, is still common within present-day Indo-Jamaican communities and the diaspora. …
The Radical Limits of Decolonising Feminism
From yoga to the Anthropocene to feminist theory, recent calls to 'decolonise' have resulted in a resurgence of the term. This article problematises the language of the decolonial within feminist theory and pedagogy, problematising its rhetoric, particularly in the context of the US. The article considers the romanticised transnational solidarities produced by decolonial rhetoric within feminist theory, asking, among other questions: What are the…
Coconut/Cane & Cutlass: Queer Visuality in the Indo-Caribbean Lesbian Archive
Michelle Mohabeer’s groundbreaking Indo-Caribbean queer film, Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994) remains one of the earliest works of queer Indo-Caribbean visual art. Mohabeer scripts the lesbian body cinematically through an iconography of indenture: coconut, cane, cutlass. This article returns to Coconut/Cane & Cutlass nearly three decades after its release to examine the radical ways in which Mohabeer’s visual aesthetics posits the canescape as a s…
Ancestral Coda
This series of poems operates somewhere between the Bronx, Half Way Tree (Kingston), and memory. Indian indentureship in Jamaica is epistemologically eclipsed; queer death is unmemorialized; an opening of sugar packets evokes the violence of empire. These poems reckon with loss-whether through grammar, digitization, or death. Yet there remains an abiding desire to explode the beauty of (extra)ordinary moments and scenes. Diasporic and hyperlocal,…
The Radical Limits of Decolonising Feminism
From yoga to the Anthropocene to feminist theory, recent calls to 'decolonise' have resulted in a resurgence of the term. This article problematises the language of the decolonial within feminist theory and pedagogy, problematising its rhetoric, particularly in the context of the US. The article considers the romanticised transnational solidarities produced by decolonial rhetoric within feminist theory, asking, among other questions: What are the…
Ancestral Coda
This series of poems operates somewhere between the Bronx, Half Way Tree (Kingston), and memory. Indian indentureship in Jamaica is epistemologically eclipsed; queer death is unmemorialized; an opening of sugar packets evokes the violence of empire. These poems reckon with loss-whether through grammar, digitization, or death. Yet there remains an abiding desire to explode the beauty of (extra)ordinary moments and scenes. Diasporic and hyperlocal,…
Coconut/Cane & Cutlass: Queer Visuality in the Indo-Caribbean Lesbian Archive
Michelle Mohabeer’s groundbreaking Indo-Caribbean queer film, Coconut/Cane & Cutlass (1994) remains one of the earliest works of queer Indo-Caribbean visual art. Mohabeer scripts the lesbian body cinematically through an iconography of indenture: coconut, cane, cutlass. This article returns to Coconut/Cane & Cutlass nearly three decades after its release to examine the radical ways in which Mohabeer’s visual aesthetics posits the canescape as a s…
The Radical Limits of Decolonising Feminism
From yoga to the Anthropocene to feminist theory, recent calls to 'decolonise' have resulted in a resurgence of the term. This article problematises the language of the decolonial within feminist theory and pedagogy, problematising its rhetoric, particularly in the context of the US. The article considers the romanticised transnational solidarities produced by decolonial rhetoric within feminist theory, asking, among other questions: What are the…
Archives in drag: Performing nachaniya towards a queer theory of indenture
Archives in drag: Performing nachaniya towards a queer theory of indenture’ takes as its object the figure of the Indo-Jamaican nachaniya dancer as a paradigm for re-thinking queer theories of indenture. Nachaniya is a highly stylized Indo-Jamaican folk dance featuring a heterosexual male dancing in drag. The performance, which can be traced to the nineteenth century, is still common within present-day Indo-Jamaican communities and the diaspora. …
From Calcutta to Kingston: A cartography of Coolitude
From Calcutta to Kingston: A cartography of Coolitude’ meditates on the ancestral inheritance of the indentured Indian diaspora through coordinates mapping time and space, tasks historically completed by imperial powers upon seizing colonial lands. In this poetic-prose, coordinates anchor an origin – yet sugarcane becomes a new set of coordinates, following the call to unmoor the geographical fixity of origins invoked by Khal Torabully in his the…
Shattering History: An Archive of Queer Jamaica
Jahajee: A queer feminist history of Indo-Caribbean activism in New York City
This article traces a public history of queer feminist activism through the Indo-Caribbean organization Jahajee, formerly known as Jahajee Sisters. As the first organization in the U.S. committed to ending gender-based violence in Indo-Caribbean communities, the intergenerational activism of Jahajee has included queer and lesbian women from its founding nearly two decades ago. In this article, I demonstrate that queer feminist Indo-Caribbean acti…
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