Arts for the 21st Century

Rayne Affonso

Rayne Affonso

Rayne Affonso is a proud alumna of The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, where she obtained a BA in Spanish and Literatures in English, and is currently pursuing an MA in Spanish. She is a 2023 Pushcart Prize nominee and two-time longlister in the Short Fiction Story Contest for the BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean. She co-authored and translated the bilingual children’s book Juanita (2024), which highlights the ethnocultural diversity of Trinidad and Tobago, and aims to sensitize young readers to the contemporary migrant experience. She lives in Arima, Trinidad, and is working on her first novel.

The Colonial Legacy of Sexual Policing: Intersectionality and the Heterosexual Requisite of Citizenship in Valmiki’s Daughter (2008)

Intersectionality, a term coined by African American lawyer and civil rights activist Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), highlights the interdependent nature of social divisions such as race, class, and gender in reinforcing systems of prejudice and inequity (140).
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