About Dady Chery
Dady Chery grew up in an extended working-class family in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, emigrated to New York at age fourteen and since then has traveled the world and lived in Europe and several American cities. She holds a doctorate.
Dady is a journalist, playwright, essayist, and poet who writes in English, French, and her native Créole. She is the Editor of Haiti Chery. She was previously a Columnist for Axis of Logic. Her articles have appeared in Axis of Logic, Black Agenda Report, Buzzflash, Canada Haiti Action Network, DESACATO, Erzili Danto’s Salon, Global Research, Haiti Chery, Haiti Land of Freedom, Haiti Liberte, OpEd News, San Francisco Bay View, Tortilla con Sal, Venezuela Analysis, and other publications.
For autobiographical essays, read:
A Valentine for My Restavek Mothers and the Stolen Children of Haiti
Tout Moun Ce Moun: The Haitian Revolution as a Permanent State of Mind
Contact Dady Chery, Editor
dc@dadychery.org , @DadyChery on twitter
Mission Statement
This site is about nature, culture, and place. It describes the unending struggles of beings in the natural world for self realization. It is also a love letter to Haiti, where colonialism is at its most naked and our slave revolution lives.
You Will Find Here
News that are relevant to the struggles against the imperial machine; descriptions of actions, wins and setbacks; details of Haiti’s rich history and culture, and celebrations of life with food and art.
The Peace of Wild Things
A Poem by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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One Love Dady.
I read your piece about the Penn State thugs who stole the frogs from our Haitian eco culture. I think that it’s an atrocity. I cannot believe that there aren’t ethical guidelines for carrying research internationally that would keep these kinds of people (who waltz in with their white skin and white lab coats and do what they want with no approval) from destroying an entire species that is so crucial to the eco system of Ayiti.
I hope that this alerts the Haitian natural scientist and prompts them to fight for and to protect the Haitian natural eco system now and in the future.
Thanks for writing about this topic in such an intense and loving way.
Blessed love.
Thank you for your comment Nadine. You’re right on the money. These people think we’re fools. And yes, their racism is showing. They figure they can use their “scientific authority” to make a big fuss about deforestation while they’re wiping out Haiti’s wildlife, and we won’t be wise to it. There are guidelines against such unethical behavior by researchers. Some actions we can take are suggested in a new update to the story. One love, Nadine.