Lyndon K Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 224455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyndon K Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyndon K |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL L K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Follow Fashion
Conceptually polyamorous and resolute in its genre bending, this article weaves together fashion, visual art, and reflexivity. The warp and weft of the resulting Afroqueer tapestry are iconic fashion designer Patrick Kelly and multi-media visual and performance artist Derrick Adams, but I thread my own fashion fascination story through an unfurling of Adams’ deconstructed meditation on the patterns of Kelly’s legacy. Unraveling the sewn lessons o…
Bwapin Rasanblaj
Bwapin Rasanblaj:A Curated Conversation Lyndon K. Gill (bio) and Gina Athena Ulysse (bio) artist's statement (gina athena ulysse) "[A]s an artist and educator who has been teaching in universities for over twenty-one years, the work I do is a direct response to the calls I receive, whenever they make themselves known . . . In response to the muses, I seek beauty and grace with humility, however haunting or ephemeral, to confront the visceral too …
Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs
For the living, there is no constituency as formative as the dead.—Dagmawi Woubshet1Relinquishing judgement is a subtle invitation to cede control. Anxious discernment gives way—in a moment that la
Erotic Islands
In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde's use of the erotic as theory and methodology. Gill turns to lesbian/gay artistry and activism to insist on eros as an intertwined political-sensual-spiritual lens through whic…
I Am a Messenger
This essay is a preliminary investigation of the historical and contemporary presence of same-sex desiring and gender nonconforming practitioners in the Spiritual Baptist faith, a spiritual child of the syncretizing contact between black religious communities of the US South and the Southern Caribbean. After offering a brief history of the faith, the piece focuses on the spiritual moorings of one particularly prominent queer Caribbean artist and …
In the Realm of Our Lorde
Situating Black, Situating Queer
This article elaborates one Black queer subject's sense of self and gestures toward the potential theoretical intervention this subjectivity poses. However, it begins by situating Black queerness in conceptual and geographic space. It proposes the usefulness of an anthropologically informed embodied listening practice for Black Queer Studies and foregrounds situated, speaking Black queer subjects in the articulation of a Black Queer Diaspora Stud…
Chatting Back an Epidemic
The popular presumption of a particularly vicious homophobia in the anglophone Caribbean has nearly rendered (especially male) homosexuality implausible for anyone living in the region. However, Caribbean men who have sex with men (MSM) are disturbingly omnipresent in the public health discourses circulating throughout the region. These MSM are nearly always overrepresented by a subgrouping of openly gay Caribbean men. Yet the forbidding absence …
Chatting Back an Epidemic
The popular presumption of a particularly vicious homophobia in the anglophone Caribbean has nearly rendered (especially male) homosexuality implausible for anyone living in the region. However, Caribbean men who have sex with men (MSM) are disturbingly omnipresent in the public health discourses circulating throughout the region. These MSM are nearly always overrepresented by a subgrouping of openly gay Caribbean men. Yet the forbidding absence …
In the Realm of Our Lorde
Situating Black, Situating Queer
This article elaborates one Black queer subject's sense of self and gestures toward the potential theoretical intervention this subjectivity poses. However, it begins by situating Black queerness in conceptual and geographic space. It proposes the usefulness of an anthropologically informed embodied listening practice for Black Queer Studies and foregrounds situated, speaking Black queer subjects in the articulation of a Black Queer Diaspora Stud…
Chatting Back an Epidemic
The popular presumption of a particularly vicious homophobia in the anglophone Caribbean has nearly rendered (especially male) homosexuality implausible for anyone living in the region. However, Caribbean men who have sex with men (MSM) are disturbingly omnipresent in the public health discourses circulating throughout the region. These MSM are nearly always overrepresented by a subgrouping of openly gay Caribbean men. Yet the forbidding absence …
In the Realm of Our Lorde
Erotic Islands
In Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde's use of the erotic as theory and methodology. Gill turns to lesbian/gay artistry and activism to insist on eros as an intertwined political-sensual-spiritual lens through whic…
I Am a Messenger
This essay is a preliminary investigation of the historical and contemporary presence of same-sex desiring and gender nonconforming practitioners in the Spiritual Baptist faith, a spiritual child of the syncretizing contact between black religious communities of the US South and the Southern Caribbean. After offering a brief history of the faith, the piece focuses on the spiritual moorings of one particularly prominent queer Caribbean artist and …
Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs
For the living, there is no constituency as formative as the dead.—Dagmawi Woubshet1Relinquishing judgement is a subtle invitation to cede control. Anxious discernment gives way—in a moment that la
Follow Fashion
Conceptually polyamorous and resolute in its genre bending, this article weaves together fashion, visual art, and reflexivity. The warp and weft of the resulting Afroqueer tapestry are iconic fashion designer Patrick Kelly and multi-media visual and performance artist Derrick Adams, but I thread my own fashion fascination story through an unfurling of Adams’ deconstructed meditation on the patterns of Kelly’s legacy. Unraveling the sewn lessons o…
Bwapin Rasanblaj
Bwapin Rasanblaj:A Curated Conversation Lyndon K. Gill (bio) and Gina Athena Ulysse (bio) artist's statement (gina athena ulysse) "[A]s an artist and educator who has been teaching in universities for over twenty-one years, the work I do is a direct response to the calls I receive, whenever they make themselves known . . . In response to the muses, I seek beauty and grace with humility, however haunting or ephemeral, to confront the visceral too …
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)