UHSF presents: I AM…Interviews A FEMINIST MALE ACTIVIST

UHSF presents: I AM…Interviews

A FEMINIST MALE ACTIVIST

Christian Guerrier

                                                                    

In a male dominated society, it is not often that we as women find men who know the true worth and value of a woman. It is not every day that you come across a conscious man who realizes how much power lies within a woman. Essentially we women are life for it is through their wombs through which life exist and is brought forth into the world. So to hear a man refer to himself as a  feminist catches one off guard; let alone arouses one’s thought process, wanting to know more behind the philosophy of this feminist male. One such man who deems himself a radical feminist is Christian Guerrier.

Born in raised in Haiti by a single hard working mother, Guerrier was a very quiet yet high observant little boy. Raised by a single mother who as he puts it “made miracles everyday during the most difficult period of political unrest in Haiti to feed , clothes and educate {him} me” she became his life superwoman. Realizing at the age of 13, that his mother could neither read nor write at his requests for her to sign a form for him; he asked her why was that she could not do what so many take for granted. As relayed to him by his mother, her father deemed it a her job to take care of the home and cook and clean while her brothers were provided with her fathers blessing to attend school. Guerrier’s mother as described by him  “a natural rebel” abandoned her fathers home in the countryside, at 12 years of age and began a life independent to that of her father’s. Self-determined and self- reliant Guerrier’s mother created a life of her own, “working  tirelessly to make sure her {children} were fed, educated and safe”. These were the beginning of Guerrier’s feminist views and beliefs only igniting the flame within him to move and organize in mobilizing the world, specifically Haiti, in acknowledging the power of a woman.