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Out now, open access: "Towards an Ethics of Animated Objects": Trauma, Technology, Transformation. In: Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts, 17(2) #Ethics #Cyborgs #Feminism #Creolehistory #Uncanny

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March 6, 2026 at 11:40 AM
#TDIH: On January 8, 1811, the largest slave revolt in North American history began at Woodland Plantation (formerly Andry Plantation) in St. John the Baptist Parish, led by multiracial enslaved driver Charles Deslondes.

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The Descendants Project recently purchased The Woodland Plantation House in St. John the Baptist Parish to work toward community healing.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:24 AM
The word Creole comes from the Portuguese “crioulo,”
meaning “someone raised in a new land.”
These languages were born out of survival —
a way for people torn from their homes or disrupted internally to build new communities.

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October 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Rodolphe Lucien Desdunes and Alice Dunbar-Nelson explored the complexities of what it meant to be a Creole of Color in Colonial Louisiana and America throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.

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January 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM
LaFontaine descends from a family of traiteurs.

Traiteurs are faith-based healers in Louisiana’s Creole culture who help the troubled and sick through various African, Native American, and European practices.

#CreoleCulture #CreoleHistory #Louisiana #LouisianaHistory #HolisticHealth #Traiteur
November 26, 2024 at 12:37 AM
City officials and white locals did not allow Creoles of Color to participate in the Downtown festivities.

So, they created krewes, Black Masking Indian Tribes, pageants, rituals, Regalias, and floats in their communities. 

#CreoleHistory #CreoleStudies #BlackHistory
February 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
To help the exhibit’s impact, St. Landry Parish residents donated photos, artifacts, and their family stories.

Prominent FPOC in St. Landry Parish descended  from the Donatos, Lemelles, Ozennes, Meullions, and other Creole families.

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November 16, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Desdunes deeply loved the Creole culture and his race as a Black person.

He highlighted and uplifted Black people globally for their morale, determined work towards humanity, and critiqued those who selfishly forgot about their people.

#BlackHistory #Louisiana #CreoleStudies #CreoleHistory
January 8, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Aswa (tonight) “ 7:45pm CST.

Check it out here 👇🏾:
www.lpb.org

SN: This is also a good preview to another article that will be published next week.

For those who are visual learners, tonight is for 🫵🏾.

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November 21, 2024 at 9:14 PM
During the early stages of the revolt, plantation owner Manuel Andry was wounded with an ax on the porch of his house, & his son, Gilbert, was killed.

Jean François Trepagnier, owner of nearby Myrtleland Plantation, was also killed with an ax.

#CreoleHistory #LouisianaHistory
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
On January 8, 1811, the largest slave revolt in North American history began at Woodland Plantation (formerly Andry Plantation) in St. John the Baptist Parish, led by multiracial enslaved driver Charles Deslondes.

#LouisianaHistory #CreoleHistory #CreoleStudies #Journalism #SlaveRevolt
December 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM