I’m Here: The Lived Experience of Reimagined Identity Among Queer Women in the Anglophone Caribbean

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Abstract

The voice of Black gay women in the Anglophone Caribbean is often missing from the literature. This phenomenological study focuses on the lived experience of reimagined identity among university-educated Black gay women in the Anglophone Caribbean. Using a heuristic approach, this study surfaces essential understandings about a reimagined identity: reimagining requires permission, and reimagining one’s identity transforms frames of reference. Findings also highlight how participants use space and control their environment as resistance strategies and how they make meaning of their experience through shaping and feeling seen.

Authors

• Sa-Rawla B. Stoute, Bronx Community College - CUNY

• Monica Reid Kerrigan, Rowan University