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.