#Haitian Independence Day

[julieemarine]

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[1800free]

[the-royal-blue-network]

Bon Ane

When you're Haitian, January 1st is a double holiday! Not only is it the start of a new year, but it's also the anniversary of the day the Haitians gained independence from the French! This double holiday means goal-setting, drinking alcohol, and enjoying lots and lots of squash soup and other Haitian cuisines.

For this double holiday, our main character Pierre, along with his family, his boyfriend Jordan, and their friends are ringing in the New Year with a good old-fashioned Haitian party; that means loud music, lots of laughter, and delicious food. As Jordan and his and Pierre's friends take part in Pierre's culture, they come to learn that there's no other party quite like a Haitian party.

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[sapphicbb]

this whole month I’ve been thinking ab how good this soup joumou ab to be on Haitian Independence Day

counting down the days mannnn I NEED IT

[albygood]

Soup Joumou

220 years of independence, a soup once forbidden to eat by the slaves who made it for their masters. The first of every year we celebrate a few different ways but always with a bowl of Soup Joumou.

My Mom has always made a huge batch to share, but this year I took over. Based by tradition, a few tweaks on technique but still made with all of the rebellious fire of those who came before me. 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹

[jsuisartistofthestars]

220 years of freedom and the whole time imperialists tried to bring us down. And we still stand.

[xohugznkissezox]

🥂

[lovely-cherubs]

Happy Haitian Independence Day 🇭🇹

(I was supposed to post this on 1 January, but I forgot to lol)

[ascen-sion]

Happy Haitian Independence Day! 🇭🇹🫶🏾

[kurotaurus17]

Happy Independence Day to ALL of my fellow Haitians out there…��L'union Fait la Force” 🙌🏾 🇭🇹

[the-royal-blue-network]

Bon Ane

When you're Haitian, January 1st is a double holiday! Not only is it the start of a new year, but it's also the anniversary of the day the Haitians gained independence from the French! This double holiday means goal-setting, drinking alcohol, and enjoying lots and lots of squash soup and other Haitian cuisines.

For this double holiday, our main character Pierre, along with his family, his boyfriend Jordan, and their friends are ringing in the New Year with a good old-fashioned Haitian party; that means loud music, lots of laughter, and delicious food. As Jordan and his and Pierre's friends take part in Pierre's culture, they come to learn that there's no other party quite like a Haitian party.

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[jvzmine19]

Happy New Year everyone! Let’s hope 2025 will be kind to us! Also Happy Haitian Independence Day!!! I hope everyone gets their bowl of soup joumou (squash soup)/emancipation soup! I know I will 🇭🇹🤪🥂👏🏾🤍🫂

[thekimspoblog]

Fuck yeah, Toussaint Louverture was a true badass, someone worth admiring/emulating.

(Actually that's a picture of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the first emperor of Haiti after Louverture died)

I know what I said.

[communistkirby]

wishing i had my gma's recipe for soup joumou rn bro....

[sleepy-timaeus]

i was JUST talking about haitian independence day with my mom 😭 and then i saw this in my notifications!! talk about timing

understanding haiti's history and present is bittersweet for me, but im still happy & proud to know about my background. to have the privilege of knowing where my ancestors come from. and learning where customs originate from. i really, truly hope the best for haiti's future, even if im not alive to see it. i just want us to prosper after everything we and our ancestors have been through ❤️‍🩹

On Haiti's 220th anniversary

Two hundred and twenty years ago, former slaves and free people of color accomplished the seemingly impossible: defeating one of the most formidable European armies of the day and establishing a new state where bondage, as it existed before 1791, would be forever abolished.

For those who have followed this blog since 2013, you know that I (admin A) have rarely allowed myself any sentimentality when discussing Haitian history. I have tried to present a nuanced portrait of Haiti’s past by addressing the weight of the many isms that have plagued its history (colonialism, racism, neoliberalism…) and by taking a critical look at the role of Haitian leaders throughout all these episodes.

Two hundred and twenty years after the unthinkable, Haiti finds itself without a president, grappling with what seems to be a permanent problem of armed gangs, little security, renewed multifaceted tensions with its Dominican neighbour, and on the brink of a new UN occupation through a Kenyan mission. The young woman who started this blog a decade ago would have said that there are little reasons for us as Haitians to celebrate—not because of a difficulty appreciating the great shoulders on which we stand, but because, at twenty-two years old, I didn’t believe in what I felt was useless romanticism binding us to a distorted past while also blinding us to the reality of the disastrous present.

Today, it’s not so much that I find much to rejoice in given the current state of affairs. It’s that I realize, what is the point of all this if there is no hope? Why this blog, why study the history of Haiti at all, why care about the country? For those of us with family there, why not temporarily send money in the hope of helping them relocate here, there, and anywhere except Haiti? Why not congratulate the complete erosion of Haitian sovereignty, as post-1986 Haiti, and especially Haiti of the last two decades, has shown so vividly the complete utter failure of its foreign-backed governing class?

I don’t know what hope is supposed to look like in this situation. Hope for what? Hope for a change under what conditions, under whose authority? On what would this hope be grounded? Perhaps, despite the best efforts of my twenty-two-year-old self, I am becoming as naive and sentimental as the people I silently criticized then...

Perhaps, however, I recognize that Haiti does matter. Even the most cynical among us would admit that there is something profoundly radical in breaking the bonds of slavery, in affirming that people of African descent could not be stripped of their humanity, that there is something poetic in saying “no” in the face of impressive odds. Newly independent Haiti did not live up to some of the promises of its complicated Revolution. The 1825 French imposition of an indemnity severely affected freshly formed Haiti (beyond the 19th century), but it does not excuse the incompetence of Haitian governments, then and now. Haiti could, may have, and I certainly hope, will change, will remember what 1804 ought to have meant.

Perhaps, especially for the people who currently live in Haiti, particularly the women of all ages who face the constant threats of sexual violence, Haiti has a responsibility to itself, to its unprecedented idealism, to all of us.

Given all these reasons, I find it necessary to maintain a guarded optimism, acknowledging that ideas hold significance and possess the potential to materialize into reality.

[e3z9]

Happy Haitian independence day