Special Issue: The Rights to Live Creatively / Dwa pou viv kreyativman

Guest editors: Dasha A. Chapman, Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper, & Mario LaMothe

Introduction: The Rights to Live Creatively

—Dasha A. Chapman, Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper, & Mario LaMothe

US Empire and Gender/Sexual Politics

Imperialism and Prostitution in Haiti (1915–1934)

—Sabine Lamour

Constructing a Kominote M Identity in Occupied Haiti

—Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper

The Afterlives of Global LGBT Human Rights in Haiti: Racial Capitalism and Accumulation by Documentation

—Erin L. Durban

Perceptions of Queer Transnational Migrants as Importers of Homosexuality into Haiti

—Carlo Handy Charles

Yon koze avèk militan Héritage ak Arc-en-Ciel d’Haïti / Conversations with Kominote M Activists from Héritage and Arc-en-Ciel d’Haïti

—Merlin Jean, Sandy Pierre, Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper, & Mario LaMothe

Dialogic Knowledge Production

Pearls and Paper: Fabiola Jean-Louis’s Visual Tropes of Fragility

—K. Adele Okoli & Fabiola Jean-Louis

A Haitian Feminist Gaze: Haitian Women Artists Reimagining Religious Iconography

—Gabrielle Mary Jean-Louis

Haitian Daughters of Memory: Queer Storytelling in Miami

—Nadege Green & Vanessa Charlot

Vibrations of Love: A Correspondence between Three Haitian Women

—Naïké Ledan, Djennifer Mercer, & Valérie Bah

Nocturnal Marronage in Queer Haiti: Practices of Resistance, Belonging, and Escape

—Ryan Joyce

Koze : Kò, sèks, ak entèdi nan fotografi Josué Azor yo / Conversation: Bodies, Sex, and the Forbidden in the Photography of Josué Azor

—Josué Azor, Pierre Michel Jean, & Mario LaMothe

Field Notes: Reflections on Mentorship and Research on Gender/Sexuality in Haitian Studies

Dearest VèVè: A Letter

—Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley

Field Notes on Queer Women’s Haiti: Changing Rhythms across Three Decades

—Elizabeth A. McAlister

Healing the Queer Spirit through Vodou, Psychology, and Advocacy

—Charlene Désir

Roundtable on Erin L. Durban’s The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti

Introduction

The Power and Play of Language in Queer Haiti: Thinking with Erin Durban’s The Sexual Politics of Empire

—Dasha A. Chapman

On Progress and Return

—Carly Thomsen

Rassembler contre l’Homophobie: On The Sexual Politics of Empire

—Anahi Russo Garrido

Zombies, Voodoo Dolls, and Masisi: Toward a Queer Coalitional Politics

—Marina Magloire

Reviews

The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti, by Erin L. Durban
A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being, by Kaiama L. Glover
Entangled Otherness: Cross-Gender Fabrications in the Francophone Caribbean, by Charlotte Hammond
Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction, by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles

—Wigbertson Julian Isenia

We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism, by Marina Magloire

—Derne Darelle Moutoula Niengou

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat, edited by Jana Evans Braziel and Nadège T. Clitandre

—Derne Darelle Moutoula Niengou

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, by Edwidge Danticat

—Patrick Sylvain

White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti, by Grace Sanders Johnson

—Frantzso Marcelin

Bay Lodyans: Haitian Popular Film Culture, by Cécile Accilien

—Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall