This is the first post I’m making on here since September. I’m trying to post on here more, and I have a lot of ideas for what to write about, but it’s been hard to keep up with alongside work, classes, and the ongoing events in the world today. I’m going to try to make more of an effort through spring and heading into summer, and I have some drafts that I’ve been working on here.
One little update is that I was recently on an episode of Gladio Free Europe, a history podcast I’ve been listening to a while and that I’m a big fan of, where we talked about 19th century Haiti. Here are the Spotify and Apple Podcast links:
It was really fun recording this episode, and I’m really happy with how it turned out.
As the months go on, I will continue to try and write more about Haitian history, politics, and current events, but day by day the situation seems more dire than ever, and it’s difficult to maintain motivation to write in the face of the violence being visited on the Haitian people, both within Haiti and in the United States.
My next piece, which will hopefully come out in a reasonable amount of time, will be about the current assault on immigrants, applying some ideas from Mohammed El-Kurd’s new book Perfect Victims, in which he tackles issues in the discourse surrounding Palestine and the Israeli genocide in Gaza.