Publications

A Haitian Queen in Georgian Britain, History Today

Forced into exile following the death of Haiti’s first and only king, Queen Marie-Louise and her daughters sought refuge in Britain from the turbulent events that engulfed their homeland.

Unmaking the tricolore: Catherine Flon, material testimony and occluded narratives of female-led resistance in Haiti and the Haitian Dyaspora

This article interrogates how unarticulated narratives of Haiti’s revolutionary women might be reassembled from disparate sources, looking closely at the mythologised figure of Catherine Flon, who purportedly sewed together the first Haitian flag at the Congress of Arcahaie on 18 May 1803. It also examines how artists and community groups in Haiti and across the Haitian dyaspora aim to preserve such figures for posterity.

Sartorial Insurgencies: Rebel women, headwraps and the revolutionary Black Atlantic, Atlantic Studies

Examining the symbolic importance of Afro-Creole headwraps within the revolutionary Black Atlantic, this Open Access article shows how women of colour in the colonial circum-Caribbean authored their own powerful revolutionary counternarratives to colonial dominance through acts of creativity, ingenuity and domestic labour.

“I like my baby heir with baby Hair and afros”: Black Majesty and the Fault-Lines of Colonialism, Women’s Studies International Forum

This article interrogates the politics and aesthetics of Black majesty that Meghan Markle and other cultural interlocutors such as Beyoncé Knowles-Carter both inform and embody. At the same time, it probes the cultural-historical significance of Black queenship and its relationship to a tradition of Black insurgency and anticolonial resistance from the Age of Revolution to the present, looking closely at Meghan Markle in conversation with Marie-Louise Christophe, first Queen of Haiti.