Focuses on discourses of queer subjectivity, Maroon identity, and their relationship to Caribbean nationalism. A key aspect of the argumentis the idea that both queerness and marronage are marked by complex insider/outsider identity positions that resist and complicate binarist discourses of belonging and unbelonging.
Elaborates one Black queer subject's sense of self and gestures toward the potential theoretical intervention this subjectivity poses. It approaches a wider geo-conceptual metaphor for the transdisciplinarity required in order to speculate Black and queer at once.