1937: (Valcin’s Essay on Domestic Workers — Two Years Prior to the 1939 Study Valcin Penning an Essay About Domestic Workers That Foreshadowed the LFAS Women…

1937: (Valcin’s Essay on Domestic Workers — Two Years Prior to the 1939 Study Valcin Penning an Essay About Domestic Workers That Foreshadowed the LFAS Women’s Ongoing Challenge to Balance Self-Reflexivity in Their Political Practice, Valcin Recounting the Fate of Young Women Who Leave “Their Plot of Land Where Promising Vegetables Grow . . . to Come Here in the Pursuit of an Impossible Happiness” — “Like a Bar of Soap” Her “Dreams Melt and Die Within One to Two Weeks”): Two years prior to the 1939 study, Valcin penned an essay about domestic workers that foreshadowed LFAS women’s ongoing challenge to balance self-reflexivity in their political practice. Valcin recounted what she argued was the fate of some young women who leave their plot of land where promising vegetables grow to come to Port-au-Prince in the pursuit of an impossible happiness. Like a bar of soap, their dreams melt and die within one to two weeks — the simile reduced the migrant woman’s aspiration to something consumable and dissolving, her hope a commodity that the city would use up and discard.