1935-11: (LFAS Women Align with Ethiopian Women — In the Second Issue of La Voix des Femmes in November 1935 LFAS Members Aligning Themselves with Ethiopian …

1935-11: (LFAS Women Align with Ethiopian Women — In the Second Issue of La Voix des Femmes in November 1935 LFAS Members Aligning Themselves with Ethiopian Women Fighting the Italian Invasion That Had Started the Same Month as the First Issue, Documenting Ethiopian Women’s Rumored Military Participation and Observing Their Work as a Parallel Movement for Sovereignty — LFAS Women Claiming and Defending the Memory of Haitian Women and Connecting That Memory with Contemporary African-Descended Women, the Litany of Revolutionary Remembrance Being a Political Libation Sprinkling the First Pages of La Voix des Femmes — Through This Written Ritual Perez Ensuring Women’s History Remained in the Present with an Expectation That Future Generations Would Remember): LFAS women claimed and defended the memory of Haitian women, and they connected this memory with contemporary African-descended women of the period. In the second issue of La Voix des Femmes in November 1935, the members aligned themselves with Ethiopian women. The Ethiopian wars against the Italian invasion had started the same month as the first issue of the newspaper. In their documentation of Ethiopian women’s rumored military participation, LFAS women observed their work as a parallel movement for sovereignty. The litany of revolutionary remembrance was a political libation, sprinkling the first pages of La Voix des Femmes. Through this written ritual, Perez ensured that women’s history remained in the present with an expectation that future generations would remember. Perez and others recognized that they were not in the throes of a bloody battleground, but they called upon the courage of these women as reminders that they could, like their foremothers, stay in the field of war for women’s rights. They were proud and willing to sacrifice their time, energy, and resources to move toward their ideas of belonging in the nation. The connection between Haitian revolutionary heroines and Ethiopian resistance fighters was not incidental but structural — across oceans and centuries, Black women’s bodies remained the terrain on which sovereignty was claimed and contested, and LFAS women understood their own struggle as a chapter in a global story that had been unfolding since the first enslaved African refused to be broken.