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Ever the Philosopher

Lenelle Moïse — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:47:58 -0500

My father and I always argue about religion.

Memory: Butch

Lenelle Moïse — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:25:12 -0500

When I am a junior in high school, I take a course called Advanced Acting, held in a dank, basement-level classroom that doubles as our black-box theatre. I love to act.

On Asking Stupid Questions

Lenelle Moïse — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:37:50 -0500

I spent my undergraduate years at Ithaca College in central New York, a liberal arts school famous for its state-of-the-art music conservatory.

How to Write About New Orleans

Lenelle Moïse — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:46:46 -0500

I haven’t written because I don’t know
how to write about New Orleans.
Riding through an empty French Quarter
with a white man in a white pick-up truck,

The Children of Immigrants

Lenelle Moïse — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:57:24 -0500

When I am a toddler, a child, a tween, a teen and ayoung adult, I am called an ancestral soul, a "ti granmoun," a little old person. Adults study me and decidethat I am wise beyond my years, mature for my age, emotionally ripe.

It Takes A Village (Part 1)

Lenelle Moïse — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:02:19 -0500

On June 18, 2007, 10 African-American teenagers gang-raped and tortured a Haitian woman in southern Florida in the notoriously dangerous Dunbar Village

Whites-Only Flight?

Lenelle Moïse — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:41:36 -0500

I was called a "Negro" in the year 2008.

Women and Lies

Lenelle Moïse — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:40:19 -0600

One of my grandaunts married her rapist. She was a teenager in Haiti and a virgin before the assault.