Troubling Identities

This short art / new media film is about mixed race identities in the Caribbean and seeks to unsilence troubling histories/herstories about racial mixing and migration in Caribbean families using the artist's family stories. Although the Caribbean is celebrated as a creolised “mix-up” space, there is much silence around race and Blackness in particular that simplify ancestry and celebrate a mixed-race utopia. But the system of colourism remains in place, yet it ruptures within sites of families that are mixed race and working class, who resist silence. “Troubling Identities” represents these issues at the intersections of race, colour, gender, class, and sexuality in The Bahamas specifically and the Caribbean more broadly. Through family photographs and myth memories weaved through vibrant pastel and poetic landscapes, this art / new media film seeks to make visible the submerged and vexed sexual-racial relationships that make up the Caribbean family.