Romaine-la-Prophétesse

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

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Today's episode is on the Haitian Revolutionary religious leader Romaine-la-Prophétesse whose identity as a prophetess of the Virgin Mary was key to his leadership of an insurrectionary camp in pre-revolutionary Haiti. Join us to learn about Romaine's divine mission to abolish slavery, a definitely legitimate and not at all excommunicated priest, and the implications of getting topped by the Virgin Mary for your gender identity. Check out our website, where you can find our sources, as well as everything there is to know about Queer as Fact. If you enjoy our content, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Instagram, Tumblr and Bluesky. [Image source: Romaine's signature, found in Terry Rey's The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World]

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer's Facts, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:04.0	and throughout time. My name is Eli. I'm Alice and I'm Jasmine. And today we're talking about
0:09.1	the Haitian revolutionary religious leader, Romaine La Prophrates. I'd like to acknowledge the Banerong-Bunwarang people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional
0:24.4	owners of the land on which we record this podcast and pay respects to their elders past and present.
0:29.3	We recognize them as the custodians of an oral history tradition far older than this podcast.
0:33.6	I want to begin with a quick note that at the end of our last episode, we said that in this
0:38.5	episode, Irene would be talking about the French revolutionary Maximilian Robsb-Beier.
0:43.5	Unfortunately, Irene's housemate has COVID, and so Irene is unavailable to us, so we're pushing
0:48.1	that episode back to July 15th, and we are doing this episode also on a revolutionary first. I think that episode
0:55.5	probably would have been some good background to this episode, so that's a bit unfortunate,
0:59.3	but on the other hand, I think it's kind of nice that the Haitian Revolution gets to go first
1:03.0	for once. So, all good. We have some content warnings before we start the episode. This episode
1:09.6	will contain discussions of colonialism,
1:12.4	the transatlantic slave trade, and general revolutionary violence, including arson and murder.
1:18.3	This episode will also contain discussion of transphobia and historical racial terms in quotes.
1:24.2	If any of that sounds like something that you don't want to listen to, please feel free to skip this episode. I also want to briefly talk about my main source for this
1:31.5	episode, a book called The Priest and the Prophetess, Abbe Uvier, Remain Rivier, and the
1:36.6	Revolutionary Atlantic World by Terry Ray. This is really the source on Remain Le Profitess at the
1:42.7	moment. Most other scholars of the Haitian Revolution
1:45.1	who speak about Romaine do so for at most a few paragraphs. Rays is the only book that is about
1:52.2	Remain and the few journal articles that exist about Remain are also written by Terry Ray. So
1:58.2	Terry Ray is going to come up a lot.
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