Small Axe

Congratulations! 🎊🎉🍾

Small Axe is proud to announce that sx salon Creative Editor Roque Raquel Salas Rivera (Roque Raquel Salas Rivera) for receiving the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry for his book “Algarabía - The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabiyya”!

Check out the special section of our latest issue, “Decolonial Futures: Fashioning Ecological Repair and Renewal from the Caribbean”!

The section features essays by Anthony Reed, Kimberley D. McKinson, Kelly Baker Josephs, Candice Amich, Crystal Felima, Christopher A. Loperena, and Gabriel A. Torres Colón.

SX80 is available digitally through Duke University Press; Link 🔗 https://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/80

Have you checked out SX 80 yet?

This issue includes essays by Éléonore Devevey, Gregoria R. Olson, Lindsay Griffiths Brown, Stéphanie Noach, Aon Ul Abideen and Zorimar Rivera Montes.

This issue is available digitally through Duke University Press; link in bio!

SX80 is now available! 🎊

This issue includes essays by Éléonore Devevey, Gregoria R. Olson, Lindsay Griffiths Brown, Stéphanie Noach, Aon Ul Abideen and Zorimar Rivera Montes. It features the special section “Decolonial Futures: Fashioning Ecological Repair and Renewal from the Caribbean,” with essays by Anthony Reed, Kimberley D. McKinson, Kelly Baker Josephs, Candice Amich, Crystal Felima, Christopher A. Loperena, and Gabriel A. Torres Colón. The visualities section features Richard Nattoo’s work. The Notes, Commentary and Reflections section features an essay by Percy C. Hintzen. The Book Discussion revolves around Laëtitia Saint-Loubert’s The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation, with essays by Nathan H. Dize, Ryan James Kernan, Laëtitia Saint-Loubert.

This issue is available digitally through Duke University Press ; link 🔗 https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/issue/30/2%20(80)

Cover art 🖼️ by Richard Nattoo i

We invite you to check out our latest blog entry, “Review of Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures,” by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, an art historian, curator, and, currently a Senior Program Officer in Arts and Culture at the Ford Foundation.

The entry is available at 🔗 https://smallaxe.net/sxblog ; the link to it can also be found on our bio!

We would also like to remind you that we accept submissions for the blog on a rolling basis. Submissions should be between 700-900 words and can include multimedia materials.

Submissions for the SX blog should be emailed to: [email protected]

New issue coming soon! 🎉

We are proud to continue celebrating 30 years of the Small Axe Journal with our next issue, SX 80, to be published next month, July 2026.

Take a look at the table of contents, and stay tuned for its release in July!

SX80 will be available online through Duke University Press.

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We invite you to check out and support this independent Guyanese 🇬🇾 media company and other independent journalism ventures aimed at holding those in authority accountable across the Caribbean.

Link 🔗 https://kiskadeewatch.com

This Pride Month, we invite you to check the third iteration of our Keywords project, “Sexualities,” published in Small Axe 74 (July 2024). The authors explore the keywords “patería,” “makoumé,” “kambrada,” “friend,” and “family.”

In March 2025, the contributors convened for a discussion moderated by and , available on our website; link 🔗 https://smallaxe.net/sxprojects/keywords/sexualities-pateria-makoume-kambrada-friend-family

The complete works are available through Duke University Press; link 🔗 https://smallaxe.net/sx/issues/74

Happy Pride Month! 🎉

Over the course of three decades, Small Axe has published numerous works surrounding gender and sexuality in the Caribbean. We have compiled some examples to add to your reading list!

All of these works are available online through ; link 🔗 https://read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/issue

As summer rolls around, we would like to remind you that The Small Axe Project consists of multiple platforms that accept submissions of various kinds of works, including academic essays, literary work and commentary aligned with our mission.

Check out this post for reference; for all submission details, visit our website 🔗smallaxe.net.

We look forward to reading your work!