Rebecca Dirksen, PhD

Aw, thank you! You've given me a challenge @HAMOC1791! This book is in part a detailed listening guide to dozens of songs & music videos. How to choose from among the many artists profiled & the musico-political debates of carnival?! A selection to follow. #HaitianHeritageMonth

Produced by @DMile85! First songwriter in history to win Song Of The Year 2 years in a row. And he’s Haitian 🇭🇹

Once again Barbados PM Mia Mottley has been the one who has delivered the speech the world needed. May she be heard, may we rise. Take 8 minutes to listen to the whole thing. Share the lines that grabbed you most. #COP26

Top Girls premier groupe entièrement composé de Femme, fondé et dirigé par le Maestro Alfred Moise de l'Orchestre Septentrional , circa 1970. (Courtoisie Linda Lambert)

Merci James Germain et @UNFPAHaiti de nous a fait découvrir les tambours sacrés d‘Ayiti. Cette soirée au @cda_haiti nous a donné tant d‘espoir pour le pays si éprouvé. Une fois encore l’art et la culture nous ont fait vivre le vrai Ayiti et sa tolérance profonde. @FOKAL_Ayiti

NEW IN PERFORMING ENVIRONMENTALISMS, ed. by @JohnHMcDowell1, Katherine Borland, @AftertheDance & Sue Tuohy, examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet @IllinoisPress Buy now: ow.ly/m4fA50GbOuo

Happening now: @wyclef performing in front of a detention center. "Playing something for my people behind the fence," he says, at the award ceremony for @GuerlineMJozef @HaitianBridge @RFKHumanRights

Which of my Boston area friends is inviting me up this weekend so we can go to this show?!? I mean, @RAMhaiti plus @BoukmanEKS plus @eddyfrancois?!?!?!

@DrSepinwall 2 / Filmed in the regions of Kenscoff, Fermate, and Pelerin. Looking out over Port-au-Prince from the mountains above.

@DrSepinwall 1a / The symbolism intended by placing Kompè Filo and BIC back to back while circling around them with the camera is about how all generations are bound up together in facing shifting climates and environments, and cooperation and sharing wisdom is essential.

@DrSepinwall 1b / Children and youth are key to environmental responses as well, and in the video they are shown helping to plant trees. And as the elders pass on (as Kompè Filo has), others will rise and stand tall, like the mapou.

@DrSepinwall Easy to share! Please do use this with your students! youtu.be/KuKpDKKAw2U Also, we have publications on the project and methodology to accompany. I can point you toward those if of interest.

@DrSepinwall @MakandalBK Thanks for a lovely review, Lois, and thanks Alyssa, for highlighting it!

Thank you @FictionsofHaiti for doing the good work of disabusing us of fictions about Haiti!—“Haiti Isn't Cursed. It is Exploited” essence.com/news/haiti-isn…

Good Morning from Gelée! Gelée is a village in Les Cayes in the south of Haïti. 🇭🇹

Is suffering or resilience fatigue a thing? I’m trying to find words to describe the unsettling feelings I have whenever people say “oh no not Haiti again!” Or “can’t Haïti catch a break” or “why is it always Haiti?” But I don’t have the words… #haitipapperi

My latest for @BostonGlobe was inspired by a recent conversation. about #Haiti "What Haitians need now" bostonglobe.com/2021/07/29/opi… via @BostonGlobe

May 18 = Haitian Flag Day. #Ayiti #Freedom #jistis #solidarity #1804 🇭🇹 youtu.be/WRH1KRATeAs

This is why public universities matter.

Sometimes I need to just block everything else out and listen. Composer / pianist David Bontemps's "Angélus" #Haiti @DavidBontempsMu : youtu.be/Pp0sNZmJSHU