Jacques Stephen Alexis se place du côté de la sororité pour évoquer la place des femmes dans deux de ses œuvres : L’Espace d’un cillement et L’Étoile Absinthe. Analysant les questions de désir, de couple et de domination sous l’angle de la dualité de la femme et du caractère systémique des relations que les femmes-sœurs entretiennent entre elles comme prostituées au Sensation Bar, il met en avant l’idée d’une orientation spatiale et temporelle à trouver pour s’affranchir de la prostitution et être pleinement à soi, faisant ainsi preuve d’une grande modernité.

Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country’s traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Erin L. Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention.

The contribution of gender identity, neighborhood characteristics, contextual norms, and socio-political factors to the biopsychosocial health of non-heteronormative persons in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is understudied. Using syndemic theory, we conducted two focus groups (FGs) of 16 non-heteronormative individuals in Haiti's urban Cité Soleil neighborhood. Eight individuals participated in each FG. ATLAS.ti facilitated thematic content analysis of transcripts.

Documentary about homosexuality in Haiti, specially in the context of voodoo religion, where it is allowed.

Documentaire sur l'homosexualité en Haïti, notamment dans le contexte de la religion vaudoue, où elle est autorisée. (Traduit par Mouka)

From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference.

La soumission visait à fournir des informations supplémentaires au Comité des droits de l'homme pour son examen du deuxième rapport périodique soumis par l'État haïtien lors de sa 112e session en octobre 2014. Le rapport a examiné le respect par Haïti de ses obligations en vertu du PIDCP et a documenté les violations de plusieurs articles de la Convention concernant les femmes, les filles et les personnes LGBT en Haïti.

Ce mémoire analyse la représentation, l’expression et la revendication des attaches identitaires ethniques et érotiques de lesbiennes d’origine haïtienne. Basée sur des entrevues semi-dirigées ainsi que sur les données d’une phase d’observation participante, cette recherche met en lumière comment la possession d’attaches socialement minorisées et stigmatisées n’empêche pas la construction d’une identité personnelle positive. La première partie du mémoire (Chapitres 1 à 4) est consacrée à une mise en situation théorique et pratique de la recherche.

The submission aimed to provide supplementary information to the Human Rights Committee for its consideration of the second periodic report submitted by the Haitian State at its 112th Session in October 2014. The report examined Haiti’s compliance with its obligations under the ICCPR, and documented violations of several articles of the Convention regarding women, girls, and LGBT people in Haiti. The report also includes a series of recommendations for the government of Haiti on concrete measures the State can take to fully uphold and protect the rights of these individuals.

Studies of sexual and gender minorities in Haiti and globally typically involve HIV research and programming with men who have sex with men. We conducted focus groups with individuals in Haiti’s Cité Soleil slum whose assigned gender at birth matched neither their gender identity nor contextual heteronormative constructions of gender roles, i.e. transwomen and transmen. The Yogyakarta Principles provided the study framework. Focus group participants offered emic perspectives on overall well-being, identities, biopsychosocial strengths and HIV-protective and risk factors.

The report focused on violations of the rights of women and Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Bisexual (LGBT) individuals suffering violence and discrimination. The information in this report was gathered from personal interviews with Haitian activists and survivors of gender-based violence and discrimination. It is supported by reports by news agencies, governments, local Haitian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and international human rights organizations.