Faith K. Deschamps is an interdisciplinary artist and practitioner of African and African American Studies at The Ohio State University. Their dissertation, Kwéyòl Ontologies, is an Afro-Queeribbean anthology of wayward methods of living, being, and thinking in the wake of modernity on the island of Dominica, also known as Waitukubuli or the “Nature Island of the Caribbean.” Kwéyòl Ontologies destabilizes normative understandings of Kwéyòl as a language, ethnicity, or caste, and presents Kwéyòlness as a mutant form of Blackened archive, method, and genre. The work bridges together Black queer and trans* studies, Black queer feminism(s), Afro-pessimism, Afro-surrealism, and Black optimism to interrogate Blackened geographies, ecologies, oral histories, and artistic offerings within Dominica as embodied modes of (re)dressing the living, dead, and dying. Kwéyòl Ontologies unsettles what is presumed to already be known or “true” about Dominica and (Kwèyól)ness. It offers up Dominica as a negated space within the archive of slavery and maroonage as a specific locality of the fugitive Otherworld that can illuminate generative ways of escaping the confines of anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity and move us towards a deviantly liberatory Otherwise.