Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley is an Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley in 2003, and specializes in contemporary American and Caribbean Literature, Black Sexual Politics, and Queer Theory. Her monograph, Thiefing Sugar: Eroticism Between Women in Caribbean Literature (Duke University Press 2010), explores the poetry and prose of Caribbean women writers, revealing in their imagery a rich tradition of erotic relations between women that articulates a poetics and politics of decolonization. She is currently at work on a second book project titled Ezili’s Mirrors: Black Feminism, Afro Atlantic Genders, and the Work of the Imagination, which explores spirituality and sexuality in twentieth-century queer Caribbean literature, dance, performance, and film.