My dissertation, The Making of a Queer Caribbean Consciousness: The Influence of LGBTQ Activism on Anglophone Caribbean Literature (1974-2014), analyzes the relationship between Anglo-Caribbean writings and the legacies of the region’s LGBTQ activism. With a focus on Guyana and Jamaica, I examine grassroots activist histories and the literary and lyrical cultural productions that have influenced queer Caribbean consciousness over the last forty years. Ultimately, I argue that an examination of queer activist histories reveals the genealogy of queer consciousness and the literature it engendered in the Caribbean.