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Angelique Nixon
Angelique V. Nixon is a Black queer writer, scholar, and activist, born and raised in The Bahamas, and based in Trinidad and Tobago since 2014. She is a senior lecturer at The UWI’s Institute for Gender and Development Studies, and she is a director of the feminist LGBTQI+ organisation CAISO: Sex and Gender Justice in Trinidad and Tobago.
She is author of art and poetry chapbook, Saltwater Healing: Myth Memoir & Poems (2013) and the scholarly award-winning book, Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture (2015). And she is co-editor of the edited collection, Black Feminist Theories: Transnational Approaches (2026).
Angelique is a social justice educator and community worker with over twenty years of experience and leadership in community-based organisations and academic institutions. She also facilitates decolonial healing justice workshops for activists and community organisations using creative, ecofeminist, and somatic practices.
Angelique works across civil society and academic institutions to bridge gaps and activate social transformation in working for justice. Her research and community work focuses on intersecting issues related to social and climate justice, race and migration, and sexual and LGBTQI+ rights.
She is fiercely committed in her work to intersectional queer feminist praxis, decolonial healing, environmental justice, and Black liberation.
