After missing its initial runs in Port-au-Prince in 2003 (two sold out shows - both with standing ovations) and a showing in Miami an 2006, I finally lucked out this summer and got to see Florence Jean-Louis Dupuy's Haitian adaptation of the Vagina Monologues - or rather, Pawòl Chouchoun (a common Haitian Creole euphemism for, you know, down there).
Despite being a profound technophile I've always been - and still remain - ambivalent about the potential role of information technology in Haiti and other Third World countries. My mom bought our first home computer (an Apple II/C) when I was about 8 and I've been tinkering with the beasts since. Though everyone from high school remembers me as "that girl who loved computers", I specifically avoided studying in information technology because I wanted to be in a field that touched the lives of the Haitian working class and rural majority.
