Cecile Fatiman and The Haitian Revolution - The Leavening Of Our Liberation - a podcast by Risa Dickens + Amy Torok

This episode was produced with invaluable research support from Amy Townes Booth.

It's about how - at the heart of a revolution unlike any other the world has ever seen - there is a story that became a seed at the heart of a national identity… a story of a secret ritual, and a priestess of the Lwa.

And it's about how our rituals, our magic, our heritage can be the leavening agent of our liberation. A source of inspiration and a prelude to action. Our words, our spells, our gathering together even at a distance can change the world - can make the ingredients of ourselves and the moments we are in transform and rise. This insight from Haitian history is alchemical and speaks to why so many of us go seeking for spiritual philosophies that connect us to our ancestors and specifically to ideologies that explode our loneliness, that connect us in a fundamental way to others - spirits, humans, animals, trees - who see us as a part of the wholeness that is out there and also in here - coming to overcome the false brokenness and brokeness and exhaustion of a whole entire social political system founded on slavery.

This episode is dedicated to François Alexandre and David Joseph.
https://www.kut.org/crime-justice/2017-12-19/a-cousins-mission-to-say-all-the-things-david-joseph-couldnt
https://scalawagmagazine.org/2020/07/haitian-protest-miami/

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