The Elements of Decolonial Healing Justice | Angelique Nixon | TEDxPortofSpain

What if we started healing with community healing? What if we started with care of self for community that attends to past injustice? In this talk, Angelique Nixon presents an approach to decolonial healing justice that holds to the roots of our ancestors and brings our full selves into today's world. She presents a helpful framework that challenges us to seek rebellion and joy. So we can rejuvenate with self-care and transform our world. Angelique V. Nixon is Bahamas-born, Trinidad-based writer and artist, carving out a unique space, that on the surface may seem at odds – creative and scholar, lecturer and activist, poet and researcher. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida in 2008, where she specialised in postcolonial and gender studies. Her research and creative work has been published widely; she is author of two books – the poetry and art chapbook titled Saltwater Healing and the scholarly award-winning book titled Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture.

Through activism, writing, and art, Angelique strives to disrupt silences, affirm healing and carve spaces for resistance and desire.

Angelique is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. She is also the director of the feminist LGBTI civil society organisation CAISO. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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