The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twentyfirst century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy of this process has its origins in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century. The Victorian preoccupation about the female body and sexual promiscuity was focused on the regulation of deviant elements in society and the control of venereal disease homosexuals lesbians and prostitutes identities were considered out of the norm and against the moral values of the time. The relationship between sexuality and gender identity has attracted wideranging discussion amongst feminist theorists during the last few decades. The methodologies of cultural studies and in particular of poststructuralism and postcolonialism urges us to read and interpret different cultures and different texts in ways that enhance personal and collective views of identity which are culturally grounded. These readings question the postmodernist concept of identity by looking into more progressive views of identity and difference addressing postpositivist interpretations of key identity markers such as sex gender race and agency. As a consequence an individuals identity is recognized as culturally constructed and the result of power relations. Identities on the Move Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities offers creative insights on pressing issues and engages in productive dialogue. Identities on the Move to addresses the topic of new sexualities and gender identities and their representation in postcolonial and contemporary Anglophone literary historical and cultural productions from a transnational transcultural and antiessentialist perspective. The authors include the views and concerns of people of color of women in the diaspora in our evermore