In this article, the author examines how women and youth depart from the dominant social standards of Jamaican culture and society. To explain these subjects, this article provides a commentary on how Staceyann Chin and Patricia Powell show women and youth addressing matters of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in the late twentieth century. Moreover, Chamberlain explains that for these figures, "Being queer is much more than a label or way of identifying one’s sexual orientation. Queerness can be both a real and imagined connection to a future, or outlook, in which the marginalized can theorize a non-heterocentric everyday life.”