Andil Gosine on Nature′s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean

In this lecture, York University professor Andil Gosine discusses his latest book, Nature′s Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean, which examines and revises understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean through exploring questions of humanism, queer theory and animality. 

Presented as part of the Critical Anthropocene Speaker Series: Global, Decolonial, Critical Race Approaches for a Multispecies World, a collaboration between the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture and Milieux: Institute for Arts, Culture, Technology. 

Andil Gosine is Professor and Environmental Arts & Justice Coordinator in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. His research, writing, and artistic practices explore imbrications of ecology, desire, and power. His latest book Nature’s Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean (Duke University Press, 2021) is accompanied by a traveling exhibition of his artworks and collaborations, and he is curator of Wendy Nanan at the Art Museum of the Americas (2020-21), everything slackens in a wreck- at the Ford Foundation Gallery (2022), and Unfinished Work at the Leslie Lohman Museum (2024).