Join us for an event on the history of Madras textiles in India and the Caribbean at the V&A on October 11th! We will be launching Connecting Threads project website with a great line-up of speakers. Join us in London or online: vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZm3… vam.ac.uk/event/8dwdoL5w…

"There are 500,000 people on this island who are not permitted to earn a living, so you see, I am extremely fortunate." Come hear Minette's story dundeefringe Sweet Venues @ Dundee Fringe this weekend! #DundeeFringe #Haiti #Caribbean #SlaveTrade #BlackHistory

In Brooklyn CUNY HSI with Director Dr Lily-Marie Cerat and Steveen Ulysse 🇹🇨🇭🇹🇨🇺 and at Djondjon restaurant

Happening now, Alex Gil A. in conversation with Marlene Daut and Kaiama Glover Kaiama L Glover 💥 at HemisphericInstitute New York University about Gil’s brilliant translation of, and introduction to, Aimé Césaire’s lost play *…And the Dogs Were Silent* published with Duke University Press

Happening now: Edouard Ducal Carrié artist talk at the @nationalgallery on opening day of spirit and strength exhibition nga.gov/exhibitions/20…

Great to see you again Claudy Delne, mèsi anpil pou liv ou a!

This is wonderful Peggy - a much-deserved honour for your incredible work.

I sat down with Louis Bertony, Haitian poet-in-residence at Harvard University’s @HutchinsCenter, to discuss his project, “And the Ocean for Ink,” blending poetry, ecology, and Haiti’s climate change. Henry Louis Gates Jr Stephen Forcer Dr Rachel Douglas haitiantimes.com/2024/10/17/ber…

Art by Victoria Villasana #giselepelicot

What I’m reading today on the train to Aberdeen: Darlène Dubuisson, *Reclaiming Haiti’s Futures: Returned Intellectuals, Placemaking, and Radical Imagination* Rutgers University Press

We know now that what they're coming after is not one form of thinking. It's not Black history, it's not intersectionality, it's not critical race theory. They're coming after the entire infrastructure that has been created from the civil rights movement.

Full speaker reveal for our 5th bell hooks symposium 🙌🏾Northeastern Africana Studies Program Northeastern University Northeastern CSSH #blackfeminismblackart

Do me and Isabelle and Alexander a favour. At work, find out where your nearest defibrillator is. Don't know CPR or how to use one? Ask your work for a refresher. Thank you. X

Thanks very much to those who have shared this- and the kind words. ❤️💙

Very sad news to hear that Professor Sir Geoff Palmer has passed. Watch him here: youtube.com/watch?v=6h5D6M… I will remember his wise words: "we can't change the past, but we can change the consequences of the past." Rest in peace. All of my condolences to his family and friends

The iconic Oloffson hotel completely destroyed by gang arson 💔😭

I'm on the waiting list! spacenk.com/uk/brands/s/sp…

Day 5 of my writing ✍️ sprint 🏃‍♀️ Hmm… I think the universe might be trying to tell me something here!

It’s now official, Haiti 🇭🇹 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 are in the same World Cup group… oh my!

“Crossing barriers,” is how Haiti-born artist #EdouardDuvalCarrie describes this moment where his artistry is being celebrated. Yes that’s his mural in the background in new courthouse in Miami. Miami Herald