Black feminist collective of artists, scholars, and activists, working within the archives to reimagine Caribbean freedom
Black feminist collective of artists, scholars, and activists, working within the archives to reimagine Caribbean freedom
“VISCO…aims to be attentive to the processes by which coloniality, race, gender, class, sexuality, age, ability, and nationality frame the U.S. Virgin Islands and the power dynamics therein.”
St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, the group of islands currently known as the United States Virgin Islands (formerly the Danish West Indies) are crucial spaces for thinking through questions of sovereignty, personhood, and belonging. We are a group of academics, artists, and activists who are committed to centering the Virgin Islands as a site of inquiry and theorization beyond a notion of utopia or space that is not meaningfully occupied. As founders of VI Studies, we situate this field as a multidisciplinary framework through which we—and others—are able to study and understand the Virgin Islands.
“VISCO…aims to be attentive to the processes by which coloniality, race, gender, class, sexuality, age, ability, and nationality frame the U.S. Virgin Islands and the power dynamics therein.”
St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John, the group of islands currently known as the United States Virgin Islands (formerly the Danish West Indies) are crucial spaces for thinking through questions of sovereignty, personhood, and belonging. We are a group of academics, artists, and activists who are committed to centering the Virgin Islands as a site of inquiry and theorization beyond a notion of utopia or space that is not meaningfully occupied. As founders of VI Studies, we situate this field as a multidisciplinary framework through which we—and others—are able to study and understand the Virgin Islands.
Background image: Storm (how to imagine the tropicalia as monumental-as in a set of collisions)
Photo credit courtesy of the artist (La Vaughn Belle) and Pentimenti gallery
Background image: Storm (how to imagine the tropicalia as monumental-as in a set of collisions)
Photo credit courtesy of the artist (La Vaughn Belle) and Pentimenti gallery