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If you know of any other resources, please drop them in the comments. We also on our site have tons of free resources for Haitian Creole, but also other Caribbean related games, stories, activities etc.: www.isseandlo.com/resources

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I am not only a loud mouth - I also put action behind it.😆 If you are looking for tools for Haitian Creole, I've got you.
Celebrate with us at Isse & Lo — all Haitian Creole items are 50% off this month!
Teaching your little one their language is an act of love. 💛
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We can laugh at the haunted house jokes — I laughed making them.
But they are a reminder for us unlearn the mindset behind them. And not to be afraid to remind others to put some respect on our ancestors' names.

Creoles are not broken anything.
They are brilliant, beautiful, and ours.

This is one of my favorite months to celebrate. Creole Heritage Month reminds me... and now I'm sharing this with you:
✨ Believing in your language
is believing in yourself. ✨

Teaching your kids the language is betting on them.

In the Caribbean region, only two Creoles are officially recognized by states:
Haitian Creole & Papiamento .

But truth be told —
we, the people, are what make a language official.
Every word we speak keeps it alive. WE THE PEOPLE are the culture keepers!

The word Creole comes from the Portuguese “crioulo,”
meaning “someone raised in a new land.”
These languages were born out of survival —
a way for people torn from their homes or disrupted internally to build new communities.

#CreoleHistory

In fact globally this stat 👇

“Every fortnight, at least one indigenous language vanishes from the face of the earth...This translates into two extinct indigenous languages each month”

source: Tijjani Muhammad-Bande.
UN News

Let’s make sure ours aren’t next.

But too many Creoles are disappearing.
Here are a few of the most endangered ones:

Mombasa Pidgin — <500 speakers
Grenadian French Patois — <500
Kromanti (Jamaican Maroon Creole) — <1k ritual users
Angoche Creole — 1–2k
San Andrés–Providencia Creole — 20k-30k

(📸 Source: The Black Brit Eng Podcast)

🇭🇹 For Haitians, like me - Kreyòl isn’t just a language —
it’s the language of our revolution.
The **very tool** that united our ancestors to imagine freedom.

#HaitianCreole #CreoleHeritageMonth

Creoles aren’t broken languages — HARD STOP —
they’re miracles of communication.
Born out of the pure need to connect - often marrying African, Indigenous, and European contact,
Creoles prove what people can build under impossible circumstances.

#CreoleHeritageMonth

But on a serious note —
If you didn't know - now you do - October is International Creole Heritage Month.
It’s a time to honor the beauty, ingenuity, and cultural power of our Creole languages — across Africa, the Caribbean, the Americas, and the world.

#CreoleMonth

A haunted house…
but instead of ghosts —
it’s your relatives telling you,
“Ou pa pale Kreyòl, lang ou lou.”

🥴 So many diaspora kids know a version of this one.

A haunted house…
but instead of ghosts —
it’s people telling you your kids should be learning “useful” or “commercial” languages, not Creole.

👀Spoiler: little is more useful than knowing who you are especially that how your ancestors communicated. Creating a language out of necessity & community.

A haunted house…
but instead of ghosts —
there’s an uninformed army of people saying Creoles are
“informal popular languages”
not worth teaching the next generation.

#CreoleHeritageMonth

👻 A Haunted House…
but instead of ghosts —
it’s people on social media calling themselves “linguists”
while calling Creole a broken language.

#CreoleHeritageMonth #Kreyol #LanguageIsPower

* like * since we aren't allowed to actually like 😅

It was really hard not to like any of the #dvpit posts (although I accidentally — and aggressively — hit “like” on one and quickly unliked it 😅). They’ve been so enjoyable! Good luck to everyone! I can’t wait to buy your books once they’re on shelves.

💛 thx!

Indeed - I have so much grief when I think about it - I am happy we are living through some healing currently.

Is this a safe place? 👀

I’m a #kidlit author who LOVES using onomatopoeias—because they’re awesome! Also, I’m Caribbean, and a story about our day without boom! bam! wap! is genetically impossible. But my brain refuses to remember how to spell “onomatopoeia.” 😩 I look it up every. single. time. SMH

Leaving home is never easy, but sometimes it’s the only choice. In this #PB of onomatopoeias, a family must trek, slosh, slog, swish & march across the 🏜️, 🌊 & jungle searching for a new place to call home after men with guns make theirs unlivable. A timely read. Our Caravan Marches & Marches #dvpit

At the Global Machete Martial Arts Comp, Kai & Danielle must save their friend María José, a judge, & a relic. But Kai's grt-grandpa's machete was taken 2. Kai's convinced the machete is magical. When he solves the mystery of the supernatural villain w/out it, he learns HE'S the magic. #dvpit #mg

Mama & Papa created a safe home for their family. Men with guns said otherwise. After they k!lled Mama, joining a Caravan of people marching across South & Central America 2 petition for asylum in the US was a safer option than staying. Months later the 4 find a safe place to call home. #dvpit #pb

Would love this book on our shelf !

Marvens, a Magical Tooth Fairy Rat & new grad of the School of Magical Toothing is on his 1st toothing mission. When the sun ️starts 2 set, he begins 2 doubt he's cut out for this. But at last, he hears the toothless summons..."rat rat rat." Destiny fulfilled! Based on a Haitian folktale. #dvpit #pb

an illustration of a woman wearing sunglasses with the words go register to vote written above her ALT: an illustration of a woman wearing sunglasses with the words go register to vote written above her

Did you just turn 18? If so please register to vote. Thanks 🗳️🇺🇸

Due to the technical difficulties with #DVpit hashtag searches this morning, we've increased the total pitch limit to 7 maximum pitches per project (please still only post once/hour)! Pitching still takes place between 8AM-8PM ET today, Oct 8th
For more complete rules/guidelines go to dvpit.carrd.co

Kai ❤️s his unique gap-toothed smile. He’s sad when a fall knocks out his 2 front teeth. Kai & his friend at the last minute before sundown deliver his 2 broken teeth to the Magical Tooth Fairy Rat. Earning a perfect new set of teeth with his signature gap. Based on a Haitian Folktale. #dvpit #pb

💛 One of my favorite Kreyòl expressions. Fits so perfectly with the entire spiritual practice of believing that's where people go after we pass. Then I giggle thinking about what it would be like to wear a hat underwater.

Love this! I also have a "Kai" character.