Journal of Haiti and the Americas
Haiti: The feminist festival Nègès Mawon, "a cry" for more justice
Audio 7:30 p.m.
Gaëlle Bien-Aimée, from the Nègès Mawon Association (illustration image - 2021).
© Stephane Chery
By: Mikael Ponge
2 mins
The 5ᵉ edition of the Nègès Mawon feminist festival is being held this week in Port-au-Prince (from July 25 to 29, 2022).
While the Haitian capital is plagued by gang violence, the organizing team refuses to give up and returns this year with a program entitled "My body in the true and disfigured sense".
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The festival has not taken place for the past two years due to socio-political unrest and then Covid-19.
Today, it is because Port-au-Prince is plagued by gangs that feminists want to be heard more than ever.
This fifth edition offers theatrical readings, conferences, film screenings.
Actress and member of the organization Nègès Mawon, Gaëlle Bien Aimé, the artistic director of the event, defends a program to
"
claim justice for women's rights
: the right to have access to care, justice in case of aggression
”
.
This festival,
"
it's a cry
",
she explains while the woman's body is more than ever at the center of the conflict with the gangs that plague Haiti.
► More info on
the festival website
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, a think tank run by his allies,
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for the first time since his tumultuous departure from the White House
.
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.
"
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