Dr. dancer/scholar/connection builder working at the intersections of performance/critical dance studies, Black/Haitian/Caribbean studies, gender/queer studies.
📚📚📚New Book Review! 📚📚📚
Dasha A. Chapman @dashachapman reviews //The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial homophobia in Haiti// by Erin L. Durban @IllinoisPress 2022 #anthrotwitter
Find it here! ⬇️
https://t.co/nSXx8FGFJ6
H.S.A.’s 36th Annual Conference – Call for Papers
"Nou Tout Se Moun: Centering Gender, Feminist Practice and Embodiment in the Work of Decolonizing Haitian Studies"
https://t.co/nrX0YnWTvt
With @cunyhsi
Message to all our conference attendees: our Emerging Scholar Luncheon is taking place on October 6. Open to all self-identified emerging scholars
Read more and sign up here: https://t.co/FwSvCeT0h8
Tomorrow is our screening of ‘Freda’ & ‘Ti Toya’.
Note that this is both an in-person event (Morehouse College 2PM) and an online screening (available 24HRS).
Get tickets or schedule streaming here: https://t.co/IQrvtpjz1w
Learn more about one of our special events taking place during our upcoming Annual Conference at Morehouse College.
"Dancing the Sacred Crossroads: Embodied Arts of Haiti" (Free and Open to the Public)
https://t.co/raiQtlsrgX
To recap this week's news: Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas were both accused of public corruption but it's okay because neither of them used a bullhorn so Tennessee expelled two black guys who want to stop the NRA from murdering children Texas forces people to give birth to.
HAPPENING NOW: So many folks have showed up to speak out about #SB140 in the Georgia House Public Health Committee today that the hearing hasn't started yet. For trans youth everywhere, remember you are loved and you belong in our state. #gapol
Connecting archives, memories, bodies, places, creativity and spirit — this is the work of community based scholarship and MOVEMENTS for change. Activating Histories for Hayti Futures. Thank you @CrystalNEddins, Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire, and @AyaShabu1!#HSA2022
Protests continue daily throughout #Haiti demanding end to US-backed regime of Ariel Henry. This is a few hours ago in Petionville, passing through Juvenat.
Massive protest against US-backed regime in Ti Gwav, #Haiti this morning. This marks 7 weeks of recent cycle of non-stop protests against foreign interference, IMF imposed austerity and calls for a govt of national unity to organize free and fair elections.
We’re moments from having the state create registries where pregnant women have to declare their status and prepared to be monitored for nine months until a baby is produced.
There’s a massive story unfolding in Atlanta, but it’s barely getting any media attention. Right now the city’s forest, a vital site for humans and animals alike, is under attack, and some amazing people are fighting back. Here’s the story. 🧵
These Black-led Community Organizations in Buffalo could really use your support after the anti-Black white supremacist mass shooting that took place on May 14th. 🧵👇🏿
Deaths of Haitians and other black migrants in Mexico are very rarely reported.
I can't even tell you how many funerals @HaitianBridge have paid for, coordinated since January 1st 2022.
Another life lost today in Tapachula. My soul is in pain, my heart hurts 💔