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L.Virginie Belony @virginiebelony.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Il y a 230 ans, la Convention nationale abolissait l’esclavage dans l’ensemble des possessions françaises haitianhistoryblog.com/230-years-ag...

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MaiaKowska @maiakowska.bsky.social · 19/07/2024

Jean-Claude Carrié, Les membres de l'Haïti Littéraire dans la résidence de la romancière Marie Vieux-Chauvet à Port-au-Prince (1963). De gauche à droite : Villard Denis, Anthony Phelps, René Philoctète, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Roland Morisseau, Serge Legagneur. #marievieuxchauvet

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kwazmanvwa.bsky.social @kwazmanvwa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Rejoignez-nous pour une conversation avec Merle Collins au sujet de la traduction de son roman The Color of Forgetting par @gregorypierre.bsky.social @rotbokrik.bsky.social et Jean-Baptiste Neudy. Inscrivez-vous ici: kwazmanvwa.com/blog/ À bientôt !

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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Don't miss this upcoming event from our friends and collaborators at Puerto Rico Syllabus and Archivo Histórico de Vieques! They will showcase their new open educational resource, which received support from our OER in Caribbean Studies Program. Register here: tinyurl.com/viequessylla...

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Also today, renewal: "Reading the Caribbean literary corpus sheds new light on the relations between the countries of the North and those of the South, [...] revealing the links between the history of the region & that of its former colonial overlords" - Évelyne Trouillot @wwborders.bsky.social

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I never met Frankétienne, but was touched by his writing. one of the most beautiful moments that I can think of is his conversation with his dear friend Jean Dominique, who dared Frank to write a novel in Haitian Creole... & he did! #Frankétienne repository.duke.edu/dc/radiohait...

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Inter-Actualités Magazine: Jean L. Dominique ak Frankétienne sou woman «Dezafi» / Radio Haiti Archive / Duke Digital Repository

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Last week Danielle Legros Georges passed away, this week we lost Frankétienne. Two gorgeous writers, mapou for us literature people, they gave the world so much in times of uncertainty, may their memories buoy us in the oncoming storm. #Haiti #RIP

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

(*A joke to distract from the 🤬💔) I am sad for the state of the nation* when NO student in class recognized this immortal verse ⬇️, as I distinguished voodoo from Vodou 🇭🇹 🎵Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do/ so well it's a spell, hell/ makes me wanna shoop shoop shoop... Not! One! 😆😭

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I'm feeling blue today folks, sharing this blog post that I wrote in 2020, which I reread this morning and found some wisdom from my past self. It's a short post about financial grief, rejection, and dreams differed. nathanhdize.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/i...

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I Gave You All I Had, or The Pain of the Dollar

When I heard last week that I was turned down for my dream job, I recalled a book I read nearly a decade ago, I Gave You All I Had by Zoé Valdés, thinking that the title poignantly expressed exactl…

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We’re hiring! WWB seeks a digital manager to advance our technological systems, manage our websites, and build readership through multimedia projects. Learn more about this full-time, remote position and apply at the link: buff.ly/41eN67j

The text “We're hiring: Digital Manager. Advance the technological systems and infrastructure of WWB and WWB Campus. Learn more and apply: wordswithoutborders.org/jobs”

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In this essay, Rosalind Harvey discusses translation through the lens of attachment theory, proposing that a translation process can be secure, insecure, or attached. Read "Is That a Familiar Feeling?"on WWB: buff.ly/42OdRR3

A lightbulb hanging over an empty couch with the quote “And meanwhile, if we are secure as translators, I propose that we are able to read and understand the source text, to see and appreciate what it is doing, and then to take a few steps away, like the child in Ainsworth’s experiment, and play on our own in a corner...” and the text “'Is That a Familiar Feeling?' by Rosalind Harvey"

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Right now, it’s important for teachers to affirm the experiences of refugees and asylum-seekers. From WWB Campus, this piece of graphic fiction “A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee,” alongside its teaching resources, is a great tool for just that.

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A Short Guide to Being the Perfect Political Refugee

In the satirical "guide" below, cartoonist Mana Neyestani draws on his own experience as an Iranian refugee in Paris.

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Maggie @maggievelvet.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Words Without Borders Campus is launching its newest unit for students and educators: poems and stories from the Caribbean. I’m so proud of this project. Join us next month to meet some of powerhouse authors and translators included in the collection! 📚

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Julia Frengs @juliafrengs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Very excited to have been included in this amazing volume, and excited to read the work of other contributors! #francophonestudies #oceania

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fabdecoloniale.bsky.social @fabdecoloniale.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Atelier sur l’histoire chaotique du drapeau "RVN" adopté en 2023 pour représenter la Martinique lors des manifestations sportives et culturelles ; une exploration de la complexité de la question statutaire et des idéologies aux Antilles #fabriquedecoloniale #martinique youtu.be/PFDcNBqTjps?...

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La Martinique a son drapeau

YouTube video by La Fabrique Décoloniale

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Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

@ubuffalohistory.bsky.social: Mark your calendars! Upcoming talk by the brilliant Dr. Deborah Gray White!

Poster of Dr. White's upcoming February 27th talk at UB

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

If you're still shopping for a noon Thursday thing, zoom on right in for "AI, Data and Ownership Roundtable" with Kim, Nadejda, and Sayeed. Funnny thing is this started as a conversation on a zoom, and we were like "we should now do it in public."

Poster for AI, Data and Ownership zoom workshop on Thursday.

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The Carol Shields Prize For Fiction @carolshieldsprize.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is proud to present our stellar 2025 Prize Jury panel: Diana Abu-Jaber — Jury Chair, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton. Please join us in celebrating them! 🎉 For more: bit.ly/3CqYD9Z #ShieldsPrize

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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A beautiful essay written by our Smith colleague Paula Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies, on Ida B. Wells literally taking up space that white women tried to deny her in the 1913 Suffrage march. Still up, for now, on the NPS website: www.nps.gov/articles/000...

A photograph published in the Chicago Daily Tribune, black and white, showing Ida B. Wells in regalia marching with suffrage activists

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Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I am thrilled to share the cover of my forthcoming book, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (June 2025 @yalepress.bsky.social) The stunning painting is by Haitian-American artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre (ulrickjeanpierre.com) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

If you're new to me, or to my work as a translator, I invite you into my heart with this piece. Forever grateful for the support & vision of @wwborders.bsky.social for publishing this <3 #Translation #Memoir

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I hope you'll join me & all these lovely people as we celebrate & launch a unit on teaching Caribbean writers for @wwborders.bsky.social !

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In this intimate and insightful essay, Rosalind Harvey explores the complex emotional and professional terrain of literary translation, weaving together attachment theory, career precarity, and the unseen labor of bringing words across linguistic borders. Read the piece here: buff.ly/4b1vIpW

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Is That a Familiar Feeling? - Words Without Borders

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Join us! 7 March 2025 Free and open to the public. Registration required: tinyurl.com/sxsexuality

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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I adore @drsepinwall.bsky.social's work always, especially the name check of Anna Julia Cooper & Mercer Cook in this piece 💜

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Really enjoyed reading "Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial" by Aubrey Gabel on @publicbooks.bsky.social discussing St. Omer by Alice Diop and Anatomie d'une chute by Justine Triet www.publicbooks.org/purging-the-...

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Purging the Monster: French Cinema Puts Bad Mothers on Trial

In both “Saint Omer” and “Anatomy of a Fall,” we are meant to identify with the defendants—albeit for different reasons.

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Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Exciting news - the cover of our next title in translation, The Rarest Fruit, has arrived! Design by @hitoneie.bsky.social #booksky 📚

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

If you're teaching about the Caribbean and are interested in contributing your materials to @dlocaribbean.bsky.social's archive of Open Educational Resources, you should apply! I'm currently a fellow and the support has been phenomenal. 💜

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Translating anything by a Black/Afro-descended writer into English? Check out the series that I co-edit w/ Vanderbilt University Press, Global Black Writers in Translation! Consider sending in a pitch or reaching out directly! www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/global-black...

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Global Black Writers in Translation - Vanderbilt University Press

The Global Black Writers in Translation series will publish a variety of texts by authors of African descent translated from their source languages into

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Nathan Dize, Ph.D (he/him/il/él/li) @nathanhdize.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This event looks excellent! LSU CFFS Virtual Lecture: Linguistic Challenges and AI Innovations for Haitian Creole: Overcoming Language Barriers for Healthcare 2/21 12-1pm EST RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Kudos to @rachelkirk.bsky.social for sharing! #Haiti #HaitianCreole

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