I am currently working on my first book manuscript based on my dissertation research Performing Otherness in Guyanais Dancehall: An Analysis of the Embodied Stylization of Bamby and Jahyanaï’s Rude Bwoy and Bad Gyal Personas. In Dancehall ka joué: Gender and Sexual Politics at Play in French Guiana, I examine the diffusion of dancehall music, culture, and language from Jamaica to the French Overseas department and region, French Guiana. In a region that is often let out of conversations on Frenchness, individuals in French Guiana reveal how dancehall offers them the opportunity to forge belonging within a global Black music and culture. Rather than identifying with Frenchness and the tumultuous politics of French republicanism that refuses to recognize difference, they see in, dancehall a place and space to forge a trans-Caribbean identity.