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SHAME, SHAME, SHAME…

Statement by Small Axe Project Director, David Scott regarding war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the United Nations:

“When the war criminal, Benjamin Netenyahu, took to the podium of the General Assembly of the United Nations on Thursday 24 September 2026 to deliver his address, delegates from an estimated 77 countries walked out of the hall in protest against the continuing genocide being perpetrated by his regime on Palestinians in Gaza. Seven supposedly sovereign Caribbean nation-states remained seated: the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. What an unspeakable shame! Why did they sit there? What compels this sort of supine cowardice? Do their complicit actions represent the views of their citizens? Think of Jamaica for a moment, whose Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, has been very cosy with US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio (holding
“talks” with him on the “sidelines” of the February 2026 CARICOM meetings in Basseterre). In early September 2026 the Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment, and Sport, the Honorable Olivia Grange, led the Jamaican delegation to the United Kingdom to petition King Charles to refer legal questions pertaining to the atrocity of the transatlantic slave trade and Britain’s obligations to the descendants of the enslaved to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. It was a grand, prideful gesture. And yet, there Jamaica remained, tacitly condoning the genocide of the racist-Zionist state of Israel. Is this hypocrisy? Should anyone take them seriously? Where is the moral principle? Has Jamaica no shame?”

Access the statement on our blog. Link 🔗 in bio. by @smallaxeproject

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5 days ago

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 @dukeuniversitypress ; link 🔗 in bio!

Cover art 🖼️ by @djsinista1 i by @smallaxeproject

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3 months ago

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! by @smallaxeproject

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4 months ago

Check out our latest entry on SX blog, “The Revolution, Reconsidered. An Inquest Against the Binary” by Michelle Patiño-Flores.

In this entry, Michelle Patiño-Flores describes the binary consensus surrounding the Cuban Revolution and its consequences, arguing instead for an ethnographically-informed approach capable of recognizing oppressive structures of power within the Cuban state without resorting to “capital domination” as its solution. The full text is available on our blog; link 🔗 in bio!

We also remind you that our blog accepts submissions on a rolling basis. Submissions should between 700-900 words and should be emailed to: editorial.asst@smallaxe.net by @smallaxeproject

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20 days ago

The abstracts and author bios for our next issue, SX81, are now available on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net!

We culminate our 30 year celebration of the Small Axe Journal with our next issue, SX 81, to be published next month, November 2026.

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

SX81 will be available online through @dukeuniversitypress. by @smallaxeproject

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24 days ago

Event alert 🚨!

The fifth iteration of our Keywords project, centered around “Spirituality,” will be published in Small Axe 81, November 2026. In these essays contributors trace and explore the keyword across the region and from a range of approaches. Join us for a conversation with authors Rose Mary Allen, Claudine Michel, Yanique Hume, Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Cécile Accilien, and N. Fadeke Castor!

The conversation will be moderated by Ryan Cecil Jobson and Vanessa Pérez-Rosario, and will take place on Friday, 2 April 2027 at 12:00 - 14:00 EST.

RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/sxspirituality

The link 🔗 is also available in our bio; see you there! by @smallaxeproject

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Congratulations! 🎊

Nathan H. Dize’s essay, “Translating for Future Readers: Glossing Haitian Literature in English Translation?”, published in SX 78, was selected as runner up for the Society of French Studies Malcolm Bowie Prize!

This essay has been made freely available for the next 30 days through @dukeuniversitypress; check it out!

Link 🔗 in bio! by @smallaxeproject

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SX 80 features a discussion of @laetitiastl47 ‘s book
“The Caribbean in Translation: Remapping Thresholds of Dislocation.”

The section features essays by Nathan H. Dize and Ryan James Kernan, as well as a response by the author, Laëtitia Saint-Loubert.

The essays are available through @dukeuniversitypress; link 🔗 in bio! by @smallaxeproject

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New section debut! 🎉

SX80 features the first essay in our new section, “Notes, Commentary, Reflections,” written by Percy C. Hintzen. Titled “Venezuela and the Caribbean: Colonialism on the Cheap or American Decline?,” the essay addresses the 3 January 2026 capture of President Nicolas Maduro and its significance for the Caribbean.

The essay is available digitally through @dukeuniversitypress ; link 🔗 in bio! by @smallaxeproject

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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 (@djsinista1), whose work also appears on the cover of this issue.

Check out this visual essay is available through @dukeuniversitypress ; link 🔗 in bio! by @smallaxeproject

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Congratulations! 🎊🎉🍾

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

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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 @dukeuniversitypress; Link 🔗 in bio! by @smallaxeproject

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