Dr. Tami Navarro

back to our collective dr. Tami Navarro Tami Navarro is a cultural anthropologist and Assistant Professor and Chair of Africana Studies at Drew University. She is a founding member of the Virgin Islands Studies Collective (VISCO) and a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. She is […]

Dr. Hadiya Sewer

back to our collective Dr. Hadiya Sewer Dr. Hadiya Sewer is an Africana philosopher. They currently serve as the Director of the Virgin Islands Caribbean Cultural Center at the University of the Virgin Islands. Dr. Sewer’s work uses a non-sovereign territory in the Caribbean, the United States Virgin Islands, as a case study for tracing […]

Tiphanie Yanique

back to our collective Tiphanie Yanique Tiphanie Yanique is a novelist, poet essayist, and Professor of English & Creative Writing at Emory University. Her scholarly and creative expertise are in decolonial literary craft, pedagogy, Caribbean studies and eco-literatures.    Yanique is the author of the 2021 novel, Monster in the Middle, which was on numerous best […]

La Vaughn Belle

back to our collective La vaughn belle Through exploring the material culture of coloniality, La Vaughn Belle creates narratives from fragments and silences. Working in a variety of disciplines her practice includes: painting, installation, photography, writing, video and public interventions. She has exhibited her work in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe in institutions such […]