#haitian carnival

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Portraits of a Haitian carnival by Leah Gordon

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Carnival 2023 😛

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🌻 How To Live Your Best Ace Life! 🌻♠|BostonCaribbean Karnival 2024 EXTENDED 

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As an Ace (Asexual) life outside of cishet patriarchal normativity often is lonely. Even as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, we are often relegated as a mystery due to the lack of media/social representation of Asexuals and being replaced as a + sign after the Q in LGBTQ(+). Amatonormativity may rule the day, but we still exist as the alternative and that’s beautiful. 

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My fellow #Haitians  were out in full force representing and taking up space all down Blue Hell Ave Boston, MA on Saturday, August 24, 2024 for the West Indies #Carnival‼️ 

Let's brush up on bodily autonomy, respecting boundaries while throwing or receiving ass. 

Why supporting LOW VIBRATIONAL #JoeBiden  at HIGH VIBRATIONAL KARNIVAL is antiBlack and anticlass solidarity. 

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Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters

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Music is a form of prayer in New Orleans and across the sea in Haiti. It connects the living and the dead, the present with the past. Every year, in February and March, people all over the western hemisphere gather together to sing, dance, parade, and celebrate Carnival. The most famous Carnival celebration in the United States is New Orleans’ Mardi Gras. ⁠ Krewe Du Kanaval is back for its fourth year, February 9-12, celebrating the cultural connection shared by New Orleans and Haiti. This year’s theme and “bal” will honor the Warrior Women of Ayiti and Nouvelle-Orléans and feature Cimafunk & DJ Garo, RAM, 79rs Gang, DJ San Farafina, and surprise guests on Friday, February 10 at 8 p.m. in the Civic Theatre.⁠ ⁠ According to Krewe’s website, Anacaona was “The indigenous Queen of the Tainos who heroically held the Spanish at bay longer than any other and kept her kingdom under the rule of its people.” Adbaraya Toya, an elite African warrior of the Dahomey Kingdom, was captured and brought to Haiti as a slave but ended up raising the famous Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Lastly, New Orleans’ famed “vaudou queen” Marie Laveau will be celebrated for the “rare multiracial community” she built and sustained in New Orleans.⁠

SourceL L’Union Suite, Krewe Du Kanaval

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from Leah Gordon's "Kanaval in Haiti" series // 2000s

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Photos from a local Carnival celebration

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Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November 1997

"Gone Till November" is a song by Haitian musician and former The Fugees member Wyclef Jean, released as the third single from his debut solo album, The Carnival (1997). The single peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number four in both Canada and New Zealand. The album version differs noticeably from the more-familiar pop version found on the single and used in the video. The pop version is more recognizable due to radio and tv play but is not found on the actual album. The orchestral accompaniment was performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. The music video for "Gone Till November" features a cameo appearance by Bob Dylan when Wyclef sings "knockin' on heaven's door like I'm Bob Dylan." It got 38,8% total yes votes. :'(

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“I was walking down Broadway with my friend from China. Everyone kept waving at me, and saying: ‘Hi John, Hi John.’ And my friend said: ‘Wow. Everyone knows you!’ I said: ‘C’mon. That’s an exaggeration.’ Right then the door to the Imperial Theatre opened up, and it was an actor friend. He gave me the biggest hug. I said: ‘OK, maybe it’s not an exaggeration.’ Everyone does know me. I’ve been dancing for almost seventy years. It didn’t run in my family. My father was a subway motorman. But when I was sixteen I signed up for lessons with a famous Russian ballet dancer. She was a little lady; told me that I danced like a lobster. Not exactly encouraging, but when I came down the stairs after my first lesson, Eartha Kitt was waiting in the lobby. Not that she was waiting for me; it was for someone else. But I saw it as a sign. I thought: ‘I’m on my way.’ A few months later I made my debut dancing to bagpipes at the Scottish Highland Festival. Then after that I got a gig at the Wine and Cheese Festival. And I never stopped. I wasn’t good enough to do it full time. I had to work as a Spanish teacher for thirty-three years. I was competent; my kids did well on the tests. But I wouldn’t say I was beloved. And when your name is Mr. Bate, the kids are going to call you Masturbate. It’s unavoidable. But each day when that 2:42 bell rang after eighth period; I got on a train and headed to my second life. I’ve danced it all. I was a flamenco dancer. I learned Afro-Haitian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Brazilian. I danced in the Sambadrome during Carnival. I danced with an Appalachian clogging company. I’ve danced in every major theater on Broadway. My specialty was screwing up the choreography. I’ve actually heard audience members say: ‘Oh no, not him again.’ But I always figured out a way to work. I’ve played every kind of character role. I’ve played Von Rothbart, the evil magician. I’ve played Nutcracker. But the role I loved best was Handsome Haldor. He was a total flop. But in his mind,  he was the most magnificent man in the entire kingdom.”

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🌻 How To Live Your Best Ace Life! 🌻♠|Boston Caribbean Karnival 2024 RECAP‼️| @BlackWomanVibes Ep25

As an Ace (Asexual) life outside of cishet patriarchal normativity often is lonely. Even as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, we are often relegated as a mystery due to the lack of media/social representation of Asexuals and being replaced as a + sign after the Q in LGBTQ(+). Amatonormativity may rule the day, but we still exist as the alternative and that’s beautiful. 💜🖤🩶🤍 My fellow #Haitians  were out in full force representing and taking up space all down Blue Hell Ave Boston, MA on Saturday, August 24, 2024 for the West Indies #Carnival‼️ Let's brush up on bodily autonomy, respecting boundaries while throwing or receiving ass. Why supporting LOW VIBRATIONAL #JoeBiden  at HIGH VIBRATIONAL KARNIVAL is antiBlack and anticlass solidarity. @bostoncaribbeancarnival Like the content? Support the content creator Cashapp: $BlackWomanVibes Socials: BlackWomanVibes 🔮 🧿

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Haitian Jacmel carnival attendee, Haiti, by Charles Fréger