A Literature, Art, and Liberation Project

Litberation is an artistic exploration of Freedom through the senses. A communal discovery and dreaming of Liberty. I curate experiences that illuminate paths to multidimensional Change and Liberation.

Each author who inspired a scent awakened revolutionary spirits within me that permeate everything I create. This work is to shine a light on them.

The Artist

I was that kid, growing up. The one in the corner with her nose in a book, completely lost to the world around her. I was raised on the land of Freedom and Chaos, Ayiti. Imagination was my home. And in 2010, after the earthquake, I carried it with me back to the land of War, America, where I was born.

Black American authors welcomed my questions, and they enlightened even deeper questions than answers. Questions that I carried back and forth between literary elders across the Atlantic.

  • Culture

    Across the Diaspora, throughout time, we've exchanged our philosophies about the world around us and our place within it. Those captured thoughts crossed oceans and espoused the colors of each culture. Let's go on an excavating adventure.

  • Pleasure

    Epiphanies always happen in the little moments. Like, when you look up from a book and you inhale, bathing in the peace and harmony. How do we maintain liberation practices that center pleasure? What change can we create out of joy?

  • Creativity

    Creativity is letting our emotions and experiences pour out of us in a relatable and eye-opening way. What can we create together when we understand what connects us? What can we learn by using our senses together?

The Idea: A Second Revolution

Unfinished. When I think about the Haitian Revolution, I often think of the word Unfinished. We broke our physical chains, but colonialism remained enshrined in our minds and our imagination.

A second revolution must be multidimensional and global. Our arms must reach across oceans to sing and dance to the rhythms of Freedom, and form an offensive and defensive line against the forces of Chaos.

How can we dream of Independence together?

The Inspiration: Authors and Litberators

I moved back to the US, my birthplace and found a home in disarray, of mindbending confusion. I only found my way in the mainland through the light carried by African-American liberators.

I devoured the works of the authors in my Vanguard collection, Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, and Octavia Butler.

Their scholarship and so many others' helped me understand the dimension shift between living under a long distance oppressor to building the master's house.

They helped me forge new tools out of the contrast against the Caribbean authors in this collection: Franketienne, Frantz Fanon, Marie-Vieux Chauvet, and Edwidge Danticat. They welcomed me home.