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Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean Personal Safety & Self-Defense Ari is dying to moveIn Erotic Islands, Lyndon K. Gill maps a long queer presence at a crossroads of the Caribbean. This transdisciplinary book foregrounds the queer histories of Carnival, calypso, and HIV AIDS in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. At its heart is an extension of Audre Lorde's use of the erotic as theory and methodology. Gill turns to lesbian gay artistry and activism to insist on eros as an intertwined political sensual spiritual lens through which to