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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Check out our latest entry on SX blog, “Third Time’s a Charm: France Abolishes Slavery, Again” by Anna Jayne Kimmel. The full text is available on our blog; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/content/1424 We also remind you that our blog accepts submissions on a rolling basis at: editorial.asst@smallaxe.net

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME… Statement by Small Axe Project Director, David Scott regarding war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations. Access the statement on our blog. Link 🔗 smallaxe.net/content/1422

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New SX blog entry: “The Revolution, Reconsidered. An Inquest Against the Binary” by Michelle Patiño-Flores smallaxe.net/content/1421 Our blog accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Submissions should between 700-900 words and should be emailed to: editorial.asst@smallaxe.net

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The abstracts and author bios for our next issue, SX81, are now available on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net! Take a look at the table of contents, and stay tuned for its release in November! SX81 will be available online through @dukepress.bsky.social !

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fifth iteration of our Keywords project, centered around “Spirituality,” will be published in Small Axe 81, November 2026 @dukepress.bsky.social. Join us for a conversation with the authors on Friday, 2 April 2027 at 12:00 - 14:00 EST! RSVP at tinyurl.com/sxspirituality

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Congratulations! 🎊 Nathan H. Dize’s essay, “Translating for Future Readers: Glossing Haitian Literature in English Translation?”, was selected as runner up for the Society of French Studies Malcolm Bowie Prize! Check it out! Link 🔗: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

SX 80 features a discussion of Laëtitia Saint-Loubert’s book “The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation.” The essays are available through @dukepress.bsky.social ; link 🔗 : smallaxe.net/sx/issues/80

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The Visualities section of our latest issue, SX 80, titled “Memories of the Night: The Wanderer’s Awakening” features the work of artist Richard Nattoo. Check out this visual essay is available through Duke University Press ; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/80

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Congratulations! 🎊🎉🍾 Small Axe is proud to announce that sx salon Creative Editor 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”!

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Check out the special section of our latest issue, “Decolonial Futures: Fashioning Ecological Repair and Renewal from the Caribbean”! SX80 is available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social ; Link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/80

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

SX80 is now available! 🎊 This issue is available digitally through Duke University Press ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

We invite you to check out our latest blog entry, “Review of Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures,” by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado. 🔗 smallaxe.net/sxblog We would also like to remind you that we accept submissions for the blog on a rolling basis. These should be emailed to: editorial.asst@smallaxe.net

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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 July 2026. Take a look at the table of contents, and stay tuned for its release in July! SX80 will be available online through @dukepress.bsky.social

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Kiskadee Watch launched on 14 June 2026 “with the intent [...] to provide the public with the news that it needs on a daily basis and to serve as a watchdog for accountability in all parts of society.” We invite you to check it out! Link 🔗 kiskadeewatch.com

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In March 2025, the contributors convened for a discussion moderated by @ryanceciljobson and @vanessayperez, available on our website; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This Pride Month, we invite you to check the third iteration of our Keywords project, “Sexualities,” published in Small Axe 74 (July 2024). The complete works are available through Duke University Press; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/74

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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! Available through @dukepress.bsky.social ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

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. Check out this post for reference; for all submission details, visit our website 🔗smallaxe.net. We look forward to reading your work!

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Statement regarding the Indictment of Raúl Castro. Read the full statement in our blog; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/content/1405

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Some stills from the lecture “Restoring the Future,” delivered by our founder and editor, David Scott. In the lecture, “Scott invites us to think of restitution not as a mere return, but as a creative movement, a foundation for plural futures”

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Statement regarding U.S. Aggression against Cuba. Read the full statement in our blog; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/content/1403

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

SX 79 features a discussion of @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social ‘s book “The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago.” The essays are available through @dukepress.bsky.social; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 !

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

SX 79 Visualities, by Shoshanna Weinberger! The series featured in this visual essay “construct a layered psychology, resulting in works that represent intersectional identity, alienation, and otherness.” This section is available through @dukepress.bsky.social Link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The special section of our latest issue, SX 79, focuses on the life and work of Trinidadian scholar-activist Rhoda Reddock, and her powerful impact on Caribbean Feminisms. This issue is now available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social; 🔗 link: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Have you checked out SX 79 yet? This issue features essays by Anasa Hicks, Elizabeth Jackson, Raul Fernandez, Max Gruber, and Jessica Adams. This issue is out in print and will soon be made available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social !

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

SX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉 All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Happy National Poetry Month! 🎉 Over the years, our Small Axe Journal has published numerous works on Caribbean Poets/Poetry/Poetics: here are some examples to add to your reading list! All of these works are available online through @dukepress.bsky.social; read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

SX blog is our digital space for brief commentary and reflection on cultural, political, and intellectual events. We accept submissions in the form of short commentary and multimedia materials. Those interested may email their work or remaining questions to: editorial.asst@smallaxe.net

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Join us this Friday, April 3rd, at 12:00pm for the fourth iteration of our Keywords project, where contributors trace and explore the concept “heritage” across the region and from a range of approaches. The link 🔗: tinyurl.com/sxkeywords-H...

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Small Axe is a project of Caribbean criticism spread across multiple platforms. Each platform addresses a different set of Caribbean practices: visual, literary, intellectual, cultural. All information regarding our project and potential submissions can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net !

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

30 years of Small Axe! Over the years, we have had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented artists for our journal covers: here are some examples! The rest of our covers can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net, and the pieces can be accessed through @dukepress.bsky.social

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢‼️ The Small Axe Journal is getting a new section. Named “Notes, Commentary and Reflections,” this section will feature pieces that address urgent contemporary issues in the Caribbean. Submissions can be uploaded to our submissions portal on our website, 🔗 smallaxe.net

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Small Axe turns 30! 🥳 For our next three issues, we are celebrating 30 years of Small Axe. Previous and upcoming issues available through Duke; link: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Check out the table of contents for the upcoming SX79, to be published this month!

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

SX art 8 is out! Nicole Smythe-Johnson interviews Deborah Anzinger, award-winning Jamaican artist and founder of non-profit visual art initiative, New Local Space (NLS). Link 🔗: smallaxe.net/sxart/projec...

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This essay meditates on the dual meaning of power—radiant power and political power—that surfaced in the anticolonial struggle for Chaguaramas. The scientific fact of radiation remained secondary to the political fact of radiation as a basis for working-class power. Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/2u67sbs7

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Focusing on Frederick Douglass’s “A Trip to Hayti” (1861) and the first installment of James Theodore Holly’s “Thoughts on Hayti” (1859), this essay examines the strategic idealization of Haiti in mid-nineteenth-century African American propaganda. Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/37wzebzz

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

This essay describes Claude McKay’s historical imagination: the history of former and current empires; the influence of economic systems on how time is experienced in the West and the Caribbean; and art’s historical function as a portal to lost customs. Read @ Duke, tinyurl.com/3pd257u8

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

SX editor David Scott writes, in the preface to the issue 78, about the betrayal of the leadership of the communist Left in Jamaica who, after the dismantlement of the party back in the 70s, were “reabsorbed into middle-class respectability and conformity.” Read @ Duke, tinyurl.com/38a8jeyd

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

In our Book Discussion of the SX 78, authors Marisel Moreno, Elizabeth S. Manley, and Lorgia García Peña colabore with essays on García Peña’s Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspective. Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/mr3ajeex

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

In the Small Axe 77 issue, our Keywords in Caribbean Studies section is devoted to the concept Heritage, with essays by Alyssa James, Ayana Omilade Flewellen, Khadene Harris, and Nadia Mosquera Muriel Read @ Duke tinyurl.com/48txdj6r

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Commemorating and critiquing the author’s nearly three-month stint living with and being possessed by the Trinidad and Tobago Memorial Quilt, this essay demonstrates a way not only to write about a Caribbean AIDS quilt, but to approach quilting as methodology. Read it @ Duke tinyurl.com/2jmmkb64

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This essay explores the representation of same-sex eroticism and love between women in Ana-Maurine Lara’s Erzulie’s Skirt (2008) which offers a decolonial poetics that counters the whitewashing, anti-Blackness, and Christian nationalism of Dominican identity. Read It @ Duke tinyurl.com/yc8mmwfj

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This essay revisits Nancy Morejón’s Lengua de pájaro not only because “it is a book of which little has been said” but because it provides a compelling lens to examine the intricate dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in the Cuban cultural landscape of the 1960s. Read it @ Duke tinyurl.com/4mt744sr

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

With great pleasure, the Small Axe Project welcomes Simone A. James Alexander to the sx salon editorial team, taking over the role of Book Reviews Editor from Ronald Cummings. Welcome Simone! smallaxe.net/sxblog

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This essay by C.C. McKee is grounded in the unsolved early modern mathematical problem of “squaring the circle” to explore geometrical form as a force that undergirded colonial violence in the Caribbean.

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This essay by Carlos Garrido Castellano attempts to answer two main questions: What might contemporary art from the Caribbean look like? And how does contemporaneity emerge when scrutinized from the point of view of the Caribbean? Read it @ Duke tinyurl.com/ys4zuf6n

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Small Axe 77 is now available! Angel Otero's abstract work "Prose" is featured on the cover and in the visual essay. Check out all the contents on smallaxe.net

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Watch the video of “patería/ makoumé/ kambrada/ friend & family,” a conversation between Jacqueline Couti, Krystal Ghisyawan, Wigbertson Julian Isenia, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, moderated by Ryan Cecil Jobson and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario. smallaxe.net/sxprojects/k...

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