Moving Beyond Homophobia: Centering Queerness in Jamaica

Date: 

Monday, November 27, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Hybrid

WGS Chair Jocelyn Viterna will moderate a conversation with Moji Anderson (University of the West Indies) at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) on Monday, November 27, 12:00-1:30 pm, CGIS South S216, 1730 Cambridge Street.

Jamaica is famous for being uniquely homophobic. While homophobia is real, epithets like Time magazine’s “the most homophobic place on earth” not only misrepresent reality but also posit LGBTQ+ Jamaicans exclusively as victims.  Moji Anderson is an anthropologist, qualitative health researcher and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica.

This event is hybrid. To register for the online session, click here. More information, including an agenda and list of speakers, appears on the DRCLAS website.