Joe Carstairs

Published: Jan. 4, 2022, 5 a.m.

The eccentric inheritor of an enormous oil fortune and gender non-conforming-lesbian-trans man (we'll talk about it!) who dated Marlene Dietrich, raced speedboats, and turned their private Bahamian island into a domain over which they ruled over native people with an iron fist while allowing themselves and their guests every possible eccentricity and pleasure. All this accompanied by their lifelong companion: a foot-tall leather doll named Lord Tod Wadley.\n----more----\nSOURCES\nMichael Craton, A History of the Bahamas, 3rd ed (Waterloo, Ont., Canada: San Salvador Press, 1986).\nKate Summerscale, The Queen of Whale Cay (New York: Viking, 1998).\n\u201cObeah: \u2018Magical Art of Resistance,\u2019\u201d Early Caribbean Digital Archive (blog), September 2, 2018, https://ecda.northeastern.edu/home/about-exhibits/obeah-narratives-exhibit/\nTom Cheshire, \u201cBoss of the Bahamas,\u201d The Rake, accessed December 20, 2021, https://therake.com/stories/icons/joe-carstairs/.\nZora Neale Hurston, \u201c\u2018Bahamain Obeah\u2019 (1931),\u201d Bahamian Fragments: Bits and Pieces from the History of the Bahamas, accessed December 20, 2021, http://www.jabezcorner.com/Grand_Bahama/Ten%20Ten/hurston1.htm\nOur intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.