1920–1921: (The Women’s Counter-Archive of Occupation Violence — Malbranche-Sylvain and Garoute Helping Catalogue the Stories of a Generation Growing Up Unde…

1920–1921: (The Women’s Counter-Archive of Occupation Violence — Malbranche-Sylvain and Garoute Helping Catalogue the Stories of a Generation Growing Up Under the Occupation, In a Bold Rebuttal to US Senate Conclusions That Haitian Girls and Women Were Not Touched Harmed or Killed the List of Grievances Revealing Otherwise — Stories of Girls and Women Burned and Buried Alive Hung and Shot, Some Named: Hergénée Athélia and Cloraine Etienne Mme. Bregarde Dorléan Joseph Mme. Rosier Madame Garnier Madame Lumenesse Madame Eucharice Cadichon Madam Prévoit, Others Accounted for Through Relationship to Injured Women as Mothers Sisters Daughters and Caretakers for Pregnant Women — the Coordinates of Women’s Transformation Bisecting Families and Flesh): Malbranche-Sylvain and Garoute helped catalogue the stories of a generation of young people growing up under the occupation. In a bold rebuttal to the conclusions presented at the US Senate hearings that Haitian girls and women were not touched, harmed, or killed by the US occupation, the list of grievances that women collected about other women’s experiences revealed otherwise. This record included stories of girls and women being burned and buried alive, hung, and shot. Some of the women were named: Hergénée, Athélia and Cloraine Etienne, Mme. Bregarde, Dorléan Joseph, Mme. Rosier, Madame Garnier, Madame Lumenesse, Madame Eucharice Cadichon, Madam Prévoit. Others were accounted for only through their relationship to other injured women — as mothers, sisters, daughters, and caretakers for pregnant women. The evidence of violence toward women was extensive and offered a grave record of the physical and emotional mutilation of Haitian girls and women as both direct and indirect targets of occupation violence. Often harmed or executed at the breached boundaries between the occupied public space and their homes, the coordinates of women’s transformation bisected families and flesh. What the Senate hearings had declared impossible, women’s own testimony proved undeniable — and the record they built, name by name, wound by wound, constituted a counter-archive that the occupation could neither control nor erase.