Beverly Bell 
Walking on Fire [EPUB ebook] 
Haitian Women’s Stories of Survival and Resistance

Foreword, by Edwidge Danticat
Preface: Beat Back the Darkness
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Women of Millet Mountain Part I: Resistance in Survival
YOLANDE MEVS – My Head Burning with the Burden
ALINA ‘TIBEBE’ CAJUSTE – A Baby Left on the Doorstep in a Rotten Basket
LOVLY JOSAPHAT – I Always Live That Hope
ROSELIE JEAN-JUSTE – A Woman Named Roselie Who Fought Back
VENANTE DUPLAN – I Don’t Have the Call, I Don’t Have the Response
MARIE SONIA PANTAL – School Part II: Resistance as Expression
LELENNE GILLES – I’ll Die with the Words on My Lips
MARCELINE YRELIBN – Singing a Woman’s Misery
ALINA ‘TIBEBE’ CAJUSTE – Getting the Poetry
YANIQUE GUITEAU DANDIN – The Struggle for Creole
GRACITA OSIAS – Chaleron’s Lesson
FLORENCIA PIERRE – The Cultural Soul
MARTINE FOURCAND Expanding the Space of Expression Part III: Resistance for Political and Economic Change
ALERTE BELANCE – My Blood and My Breath
YANNICK ETIENNE – A Grain of Sand
CLAUDETTE PHENE – A Little Light
YOLETTE ETIENNE – Jumping over the Fire
LOUISE MONFILS – The Samaritan
VITA TELCY – Five Cans of Corn
MARIE JOSEE ST. FIRMIN – Sharing the Dream
SELITANE JOSEPH – Chunk of Gold
ROSEMIE BELVIUS – Reshuffling the Cards Part IV: Resistance for Gender Justice
LISE-MARIE DEJEAN – Minister of the Status and Rights of Women
GRACITA OSIAS – The Marriage Question
LOUISE MONPILS – Walking with My Little Coffin
CLAUDETTE WERLEIGH – Women’s Business
YOLANDE MEVS – Support for the Children
YANIQUE GUITEAU DANDIN – A Country’s Problems, A Woman’s Problems
MARIE ]OSEE ST. FIRMIN – Deciding My Life
OLGA BENOIT – Assuming the Title ‘Feminist’
JOSETTE PERARD – The Carriage Is Leaving Part V: Resistance Transforming Power
CLAUDETTE WERLEIGH – Lighting Candles of Hope
MARIE SONIA DELY – Sharing the Breadfruit
LISE-MARIE DEJEAN – The People Say Jump
MYRIAM MERLET – The More People Dream
YANNICK ETIENNE – You Can’t Eat Gumbo with One Finger
MYRTO CELESTIN SAUREL – Rocks in the River
KESTA OCCIDENT – A Stubborn Hope Epilogue: Resistance as Solidarity
ALERTE BELANCE – Get Up, Shake Your Bodies Notes
Glossary
For Further Research and Involvement
Bibliography

Beverly Bell is the founder and director of the Center for Economic Justice in Albuquerque, N.M. She has worked closely with the Haitian democracy and women’s movements for more than two decades. Edwidge Danticat is the author of Breath, Eyes, Memory, The Farming of Bones, and Krik? Krak!