Charmaine Crawford, PhD is an associate professor in Africana Studies at Kent State University, USA. She specializes in gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora and Caribbean women, domestic work and transnational motherhood. Dr Crawford formerly taught at the Institute of Gender and Development Studies: Nita Barrow Unit at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. Dr Crawford is the author of Unbearable Knowledge: Sexual Citizenship, Homophobia and the Taxonomy of Ignorance in the Caribbean, and Decolonizing Reproductive Labour: Caribbean Women, Migration and Domestic Work in the Global Economy.