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In an era when writing directly about these “queer” prac-tices was taboo, calling Saint-Pierre the Sodom of the Antilles might have func-tioned as a privileged gesture — as a nod toward a mountain of things that couldnot be referenced directly.

The Caribs, the indigenous inhabitants of Martinique,surely knew of the dangers of this volcano — they called it “Fire Mountain” — butthat knowledge was lost in the genocidal campaign that the French waged in thename of imperial expansion.

Saint-Pierre emerged as a central site in France’s eighteenth- and nineteenth-century economic, political, and sexual conquest of the region.14 As the Martini-can author and cultural critic Raphaël Confiant has argued, “Saint-Pierre wasthe city of all excesses.

same-sex desiringand gender-transgressing Martinicans are forced to grapple with an intersectionof epistemological violences as they navigate various social worlds

As just one example, in manycountries in the region homosexuality is criminalized and “homosexual acts”are punishable by law, but these practices clash with France’s legal code, whichboth affords protections and extends certain rights, like access to civil unions, tosame-sex couples

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