Nixon teaches at The University of the West Indies St. Augustine's, and is a director of CAISO: Sex & Gender Justice organization in Trinidad and Tobago.
She is the author of the 2015 non-fiction book Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture.
[2] Nixon works, writers and makes art about intersectional feminism, Black liberation and decolonization.
[1] Nixon is a tenured lecturer at the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine's Institute for Gender and Development Studies where, from 2017 to 2021, she led the Sexual Culture of Justice program that produced local and regional analysis on how to approach sexual and gender-based violence and discrimination towards LGBTQI+ people.
[1] In 2021, Nixon called on the government of Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency on gender based violence.