Welcome!
Welcome to my newsletter where I will provide short ruminations about the history of science, public health, and Black radical imagination. As a former biologist turned historian/writer who is constantly in motion, I want to examine the themes that hit close to home: what it means to be sick and heal in this world.
Given my interest in illness and healing, I will also write about medical narratives of failure, loss, and growth. What you will find is an engagement with traditional and spectacular knowledge and a textual collage of what it means to be human. As a Haitian American millennial living in debt exile in Berlin, I am finding ways to revel in the mundane and the profane.
The newsletter’s name takes inspiration from my joint exhibition with Dr. Luiza Prado entitled “Mobile Fragments” at ARIEL Feminisms in Copenhagen in June 2021. In a way, the exhibition was reflective of our position in Europe as migrants who are mapping the herbal and medical landscapes in Europe. In a way, this will be a space for me to process and reflect on what I’m learning and unlearning as well as short updates about what I’ve been reading and creating. I’m hoping you’ll join me.
Hope to see you soon,
Edna