1936-1942: (Perez Establishes an Archival Record of Care as Citizenship — Between Her Letter in 1936 and Her Scripting of Sanité Bélair’s Goddaughter in 1942…

1936-1942: (Perez Establishes an Archival Record of Care as Citizenship — Between Her Letter in 1936 and Her Scripting of Sanité Bélair’s Goddaughter in 1942 Perez Establishing an Archival Record of the Sacred and Political Calling to Care for Women as a Measure of Haitian Citizenship, She Choreographing Women’s Relationship to One Another and Writing Haitian Women and Girls into the National Script as Co-Creators of a Future with Them in It “Even If the Race Had Begun” — the Octave of Sanité’s Cry of “Long Live Freedom! Down with Slavery!” Being Elevated, the Frequency Amplifying the Possibilities and Expanding the Form of Freedom): Between her letter in 1936 and her scripting of Sanité Bélair’s goddaughter in 1942, Perez established an archival record of the sacred and political calling to care for women as a measure of Haitian citizenship. She choreographed women’s relationship to one another and wrote Haitian women and girls into the national script as co-creators of a future with them in it, even if the race had begun. The octave of Sanité’s cry was elevated — the frequency amplified the possibilities and expanded the form of freedom. And the co-parenting that Perez articulated in her letter and in Sanité’s mothering ultimately articulated, as Gumbs argues, the creative spirit, or love itself.