Sargasso Collection

Belonging – Artwork by Shalini Seereeram

Sargasso Journal
Selected Pieces from Print Special Issue

Introduction – A Collaborative Project
Rosamond S. King, Lawrence La Fountain Stokes,
Katherine Miranda, & Angelique V. Nixon

Garantas que gritan / Screaming Throats
Historia escrita de otros / Written History of Others
Zulma Oliveras Vega

Activismo académico-político en Puerto Rico:
el Coloquio ¿Del otro lao?: Perspectivas sobre sexualidades queer
Beatriz Llenín Figueroa en colaboración con Néstor Rodríguez y Lissette Rolón Collazo

Hunger, Highways, and Human Rights:
Politics of Visibility and Social Justice in Trinidad and Tobago
Krystal Ghisyawan

“Hay que tener una fortaleza fuerte”: Catholic Coloniality, Sexual Terror and Trans Sobrevivencia in the Dominican Republic
Ana-Maurine Lara

Attitudes Towards Homosexuals in Trinidad and Tobago and the Southern Caribbean
Alana Griffith and Peter Wickham


Special Feature of the Online Edition:

Amor Raro and Other Heart-Shaped Islands:
A conversation between Nicolás Dumit Estévez and Arthur Avilés

Yolanda Arroya Pizarro
Diversidad – colección de poesía


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Cover Art: “Belonging” by Shalini Seereeram
Permission granted by the artist for print and online use.

Shalini Seereeram is an innovative artist who has been creating vibrant, undulating portraits of women and men for the past fifteen years of her career. Her technical style is informed by continuous lines, intricate patterns, swirls and dramatic contrast of colour within the picture plane depicting Indo-Caribbean culture.