A friend of mine in the performance art world just sent out an email about a trans artist who was running an arts center in Haiti and died in the earthquake.
This linked interview with the artist, Flo McGarrell, gives an interesting take on his process of moving to Haiti, engaging with the art world and economic reality there, and being an out trans person in a small creative town outside of the capitol. It added, for me, an interesting dimension to my understanding of Haiti’s life, culture and struggle, and how incredibly impossible it must be there right now, with a crumbled infrastructure that barely was held together before. At any rate, I thought I would share for those interested. So sad on so many levels.
