SX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉
This issue includes essays by Anasa Hicks, Elizabeth Jackson, Raul Fernandez, Max Gruber, and Jessica Adams. It features the special section “Rhoda Reddock: Scholar, Activist, Relentless Optimist,” with essays by Kamala Kempadoo, Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Jocelyne Guilbault, Carole Boyce Davies, and Rhoda Reddock. The visualities section features Shoshanna Weinberger’s work. Lastly, the Book Discussion revolves around Ryan Jobson’s The Petro-State Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago, with essays by J. Brent Crosson, Chelsea Angela Schields, and Ryan Jobson himself.
All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79.
This issue will soon be available online through @dukeuniversitypress ; link 🔗 in bio!
Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger
Small Axe is a project of Caribbean criticism spread across multiple platforms. Each platform addresses a different set of Caribbean practices: visual, literary, intellectual, cultural. We hope this post may serve as a roadmap to our project, as well as share some more about our ethos!
All information regarding our project and potential submissions can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net !
SX 79 features a discussion of @ryanceciljobson ‘s book “The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago.”
The section features essays by J. Brent Crosson and Chelsea Schields, as well as a response by the author, Ryan Cecil Jobson.
The essays are available through Duke University Press; link 🔗 in bio!
SX 79 Visualities section features a visual essay by @shoshannaweinberger titled “Invisible Visibility: Passing Between the Lines.”
The series featured in this visual essay “construct a layered psychology, resulting in works that represent intersectional identity, alienation, and otherness.”
This section and the rest of SX 79 is available through @dukeuniversitypress . Link 🔗 in bio!
The special section of our latest issue, SX 79, focuses on the life and work of Trinidadian scholar-activist Rhoda Reddock, and her powerful impact on Caribbean Feminisms. It features essays by Kamala Kempadoo, Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Jocelyne Guilbault, Carole Boyce Davies, and Rhoda Reddock herself.
This issue is now available digitally through @dukeuniversitypress ; 🔗 link in bio!
Have you checked out SX 79 yet?
This issue features essays by Anasa Hicks, Elizabeth Jackson, Raul Fernandez, Max Gruber, and Jessica Adams.
This issue is out in print and will soon be made available digitally through @dukeuniversitypress ; link 🔗 in bio!
There are many ways to have your work featured at Small Axe!
SX blog is our digital space for brief commentary and reflection on cultural, political, and intellectual events. We accept submissions in the form of short commentary and multimedia materials (500 words max.). Take a look at our blog to see some examples; 🔗 link in bio!
For authors who have been previously published in our journal, the blog could be a space to revisit your piece, to feature additional multimedia materials that could not be included in the journal, or to provide novel commentary altogether.
Our blog is open to ANYONE. Those interested may email their work or remaining questions to:
[email protected]
We look forward to considering your work!
Join us next Friday, April 3rd, at 12:00pm for the fourth iteration of our Keywords project, where contributors trace and explore the concept “heritage” across the region and from a range of approaches.
This event will consist of a virtual conversation with the section’s contributors: Khadene Harris, Alyssa A. L. James, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, and Nadia Mosquera Muriel.
The link 🔗 is in our bio!
Let’s continue celebrating our 30th anniversary! 🎉
Over the years, we have had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented artists for our journal covers: here are some examples!
The rest of our covers can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net, and the pieces can be accessed through @dukeuniversitypress ; the 🔗 link is on our bio!
ANNOUNCEMENT 📢‼️
The Small Axe Journal is getting a new section. Named “Notes, Commentary and Reflections,” this section will feature pieces that address urgent contemporary issues in the Caribbean. Submissions should have a maximum of 2,500 and should be uploaded to our submissions portal, which can be found on our website, 🔗 smallaxe.net
Looking forward to considering your pieces!
Event Alert! 🚨
On Tuesday, March 10th at 6:00pm EST, Small Axe Managing Editor Vanessa Pérez-Rosario and Emma Amador will discuss the works and stories of Puerto Rican feminist figures, including Julia de Burgos, Yolanda Sanchez and Antonia Pantoja, and how these overlap with struggles for national liberation.
The event will be hosted by CENTRO and will be virtual.
You can RSVP through the QR code, or through the link 🔗 in our bio!
Before the end of Black History Month, check out Part 2 of our reading list!
These articles, and the rest of our archive, are available through Duke: link in bio 🔗!
