"I wanted vast complexity relegated to a small screen in a small corner, mirroring how queer..."

“I wanted vast complexity relegated to a small screen in a small corner, mirroring how queer sexuality in TT is often suppressed and gazed at furtively in discrete recesses. Hughes, who visited Trinidad and had ties to this country, is the perfect symbol of how queerness is dismissed and etherised by straight power.”

- from Janelle De Souza’s Sunday Newsday report on my collaboration with Adam Patterson on Langston Hughes