Juin 6. Rivière Petit Bras David, Guadeloupe.

Guadeloupean woman, Guadeloupe, by Aurelien Brusini

On January 20, 2009, a general strike began in the French colony of Guadeloupe. After a month of fruitless negotiations, the strikers “began rioting, burning cars and businesses, throwing rocks and eventually opening fire on the police.”

After three days, the French president conceded to all 20 of the strikers’ demands. You can read more on how this played out in our book The Failure of Nonviolence by Peter Gelderloos

“ Pastel Splash “ //  [MNA] Photography

Baie-Mahault, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

Wales Bonner by Allan Arma.

Morne-à-l'Eau (Guadeloupe, 2019) - Cédrine Scheidig

beauty around the world: pt 5

Tribute to all these revolutionary women coming from the overseas departments and Haiti who fought at risk of their lives for their freedoms and forgotten even more than the women of the French revolution in metropolitan France already well despised.

In this post, although there are many of them, I will cite two of them, I will perhaps write a more detailed post when I have time because it is shameful that these women are not better known: -Sanité Bélair: Lieutenant of Toussaint Louverture, considered the soul of the conspiracy, particularly with her husband Charles Belair and fighter against Leclerc. She was captured, sentenced to death and shot. She showed great courage during her execution like many of her peers. She died but not her ideals and became a great symbol She is considered one of the great heroines of Haiti's fight for independence alongside Catherine Flon, Cecile Faitman and Dédée Bazile. On the Guadeloupe side we have Rosalie alias Solitude, whose historian Mathilde Larrère has written a magnificent article that I invite everyone to read. This woman had joined the community of "maroons". While she was a few months pregnant, she fought against the reestablishment of slavery. Captured, she will be executed like so many others after giving birth. When will there be more tribute to these women by exploring these parts of France? Personally I prefer a hundred (or even a thousand) times more to pay homage to them than Napoleon, who in my opinion, if he survived, failed as emperor, where the people I cited who died for their ideas had a posthumous victory. on the abolition of slavery and the independence of Haiti). Frankly beside the point when we are presented with Madame de Stael or Louise de Prussia as the only female figures standing against Napoleon, I am very sorry that they make a very pale figure regarding the women mentioned earlier (I am not saying that in a goal to clash with Louise of Prussia and Madame de Stael but rather the "thinkers" we can see in media, movie, who voluntarily cite only them to obscure the others because they believe that we can judge Napoleon magnanimously on what he did concerning slavery and do not focus only on the Europe part or worst to the goal to justify the horrors that France did to Guadeloupeans, Reunionese, Haitians, etc, or to the thinkers who only believe in white feminism, etc…).

Isn’t the ability to communicate with the invisible world, to keep constant links with the dead, to care for others and heal, a superior gift of nature that inspires respect, admiration, and gratitude?

Maryse Condé, from I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Maryse Condé, Guadeloupean ‘grand storyteller’ crossed over on April 2, 2024, aged 90. May she rest in peace. 🕯

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Juin 2. 1ère Chute du Carbet. Capesterre, Guadeloupe.

Guadeloupean girl, Guadeloupe, by Festival de Gwoka

Mylia at the River- Guadeloupe. 2019

Photo by Gregory Halpern

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Kapok tree in Jardin Botanique, Guadeloupe