Lyndon K. Gill is an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Thank you to Episode 83’s Ajamu X for connecting us. Lyndon’s interests include queer aesthetics in the African Diaspora, the erotic, LGBT art and activism in Caribbean cultures, African-based spiritual traditions in the Americas, subjectivity, and community building. In 2018, Lyndon published Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean. With a focus on the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the book details how queer histories in the Caribbean have influenced Carnival and calypso.
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