| Summary: | <p>Living in Cité Soleil, the largest haitian slum, is in itself a stigma, hindering access to social services and humanitarian aid. Repression and the increasing presence of armed gangs imposed a culture of silence. Violence became normality, particularly against women. Their survival strategies can be summarized by <em>kalkile</em>, calculate, pervading the individual and social body. When confronted with inequity in health, choices may turn into acts of resistance.</p><p>Still, women continue to organize collectively. Some counteract their despair with works of art, reproducing the beauty of what in their memory remains "the pearl of the Antilles": Haiti.</p><p> </p>
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