A Critical fabulation to revisit a story we tell haitian children to scare them.
A story of mercy. A risk to be taken in kreyol only.
In response to “How do we uncover this system and re-route our ways of thinking/being/doing to align with it?”, I ask myself; If the archives are colonized, then how do I use their information to align it with my intentions?
About Critical fabulation to bring back humanity in all of our stories.
I chose this format thinking about all the tapes my parents made us listen to from family in Haiti, and the many tapes we recorded fo family back home. Since my childhood, we went from radio cassettes to voice memo’s we send on What’sApp or Messenger…
I chose this story from a memory; I visited a fort in Haiti with my dad in 1996. I have been haunted by the brutality that happened in the cells within the fort’s walls. I have been haunted by the response from others about the brutality that happened in those cells.
Giving voice to misunderstood women in a language only their descendants can understand…
