Nature’s Wild

Project Investigator: Andil Gosine Funding: SSHRC Connection Grant Term: 2022-2023. The project shares the author’s research collected in Nature’ Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2021). In Nature’s Wild, Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise historical and contemporary understandings of queer desire.

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Colin Robinson’s unfinished work

Project Investigator: Andil Gosine Funding: SSHRC Insight Grant Term: 2022-2026 This five-year interdisciplinary project examines historical and contemporary articulations of and approaches to the security of sexual autonomy through consideration of the intellectual, literary and political legacy of Colin M. Robinson, the Black, Queer, Caribbean-American writer and activist who made formidable impacts during his prolific

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Professor Andil Gosine is co-editor of the ‘Wasafiri’ summer 2022 issue

Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Professor Andil Gosine is the guest co-editor of Wasafiri Issue 110: Afterlives of Indenture – exploring the legacy of indentured workers across the Indo-Caribbean and the diasporic experience.   Among the contributors of the Summer 2022 issue is co-editor Nalini Mohabir, assistant professor at Concordia University; filmmaker Richard Fund; novelist-poet Ramabai Espinet; life

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York professor’s New York exhibit displays reinventive spirit in times of crisis

The exhibition everything slackens in a wreck, curated by Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Professor Andil Gosine, will be at the Ford Foundation Gallery in New York City. Running from June 1 to Aug. 20, the exhibit features seven York University community members, including exhibiting artist and BFA and MFA alumna Margaret Chen, artistry from master of environmental

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Andil Gosine

Professor Credentials PhD, York UniversityMPhil, University of SussexBES (Honours), York University Research Keywords Environmental Arts; Environmental Justice; Caribbbean Sexualities. Contact Information 4700 Keele StreetToronto, ON M3J 1P3 416 736 2100 andil@yorku.ca  https://www.andilgosine.com Research Projects Research Output Courses Course Code Title ENVS 3122 Create, Curate, Critique: An Environmental Arts Workshop ENVS 6150 Popular Education for Social Change ENVS

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Indian women became the faces of Victorian-era postcards, well over a century later Prof Andil Gosine reimagined the postcards in his photo series “Cane Portraiture.”

Personal connections Well over a century later, visual artist Andil Gosine reimagined the postcards in his photo series “Cane Portraiture.” Gosine lived in Trinidad until he was 14 and is a descendent of Indo-Trinidadian indentured workers. For the series, Gosine invited Caribbeans who had migrated to New York to pose against a backdrop of sugarcane

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Everything Slackens in a Wreck

Principal Investigator: Andil Gosine. Funding: SSHRC Connections Grant. Term: 2020-2022. “Everything Slackens In A Wreck” is a line from Khal Torabully’s “Coolitude” which expresses Indentures’ experience of rebuilding and reinventing their lives during the period of indentureship. Trapped in the dehumanizing conditions of the Indentureship program, migrants nevertheless also simultaneously worked against tenets of caste

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