If she had written about a man in New York who persistently propositioned her for sex (the website Hollaback exists, by the way), if she had written about a gang rape victim in Cincinnati, if she had written about a grabby rich guy, no one would have said anything because these things happen every day in every city in every country around the world. I have been surprised and disappointed to see fingers pointing at how McClelland has represented Haiti. It was refreshing to see someone approach this topic unapologetically, without pathologizing it. I understood exactly what she was saying and appreciated how well she articulated the desire and need for violent sex to deal with violent issues. I related to nearly everything she wrote, for different reasons, certainly, but I related. Few pieces of writing have moved me more. She writes about how she is getting better and reporting on sexual violence in other parts of the world. She writes about meeting up with a friend in San Francisco who would satisfy her need for violent sex and how he helped her and then held her. McClelland also writes about trying to deal with the effects of PTSD and the feelings of doubt she experienced because the traumas affecting her weren’t explicitly her traumas. I don’t understand how people can’t see that. More importantly, Haiti is not the point of this essay. These things are true.” Like McClelland, my mother only speaks to her own experience but I am comfortable in believing McClelland’s experience was not imagined or sensationalized as has been suggested in other quarters. My mother said, wearily, “There are a lot of guns in Haiti. After I read the essay, I called my mother who is always concerned about how Haiti is represented inaccurately and read her the parts of the essay about Haiti. She wrote about a very traumatized rape victim who had an ugly breakdown when the victim saw her rapist while they were driving through the city. She wrote about a wealthy man who started stalking her even though, in his words, he wasn’t a rapist. She wrote about how in Haiti there are many, many guns. In her essay, McClelland wrote about a man in Haiti who persistently propositioned her for sex. More and more she does not for reasons that are her own. They commute between there and South Florida, going for a week at a time, maybe two weeks, then they return here for a few days of quiet and calm before heading back. His faith is unwavering and incorruptible. My father is ardent in his love for his country.
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They are engineers, hell bent on rebuilding. My father and youngest brother work in Port au Prince. My family is there though and so I hear, regularly, about what life is like there now, in this new after-after the earthquake, after the election, after the hurricane. I fill in what I don’t know with my imagination, which I can do because I am a fiction writer. I don’t know if I get Haiti right because I only know Haiti as a Haitian American who goes to Haiti and sees the best parts up close and the worst parts from a safe distance. I write about Haiti sometimes, mostly as I try to understand a place that cannot be understood.
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Haiti is a country, I often feel, that exists beyond the realm of understanding. How do you write about the beauty and the strength and the poverty and violence of that island? I don’t know if it is possible. There is no easy way to write about Haiti because the country is so complicated that almost any approach will sound wrong. As a Haitian American, I immediately tensed and worried about what she might say.Īll too often, when people write about Haiti, they portray the country in really incomplete, troubling ways.
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Early in the essay, McClelland writes about being in Haiti.
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Last week journalist Mac McClelland wrote a brutal, exceptional essay for Good where she plainly discussed her experience with PTSD and her desire for violent sex as one means of coping with the atrocities she had witnessed as a human rights reporter.