All About
Marla Lou.
“The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.”
- Toni Cade Bambara
Marla Louissaint (menace/goddexx/pharaoh) aka Marla Lou is a Haitian born truth-telling Culture Worker harnessing their power to define the future Black history and make the revolution irresistible.
Through their culture work in the arts and community care, Marla ignites to make the revolution irresistible by centering pleasure and radical imagination to dream and build beyond the current late-stage capitalist reality. As a first generation Computer Science graduate (Fordham University '20), they use their systems oriented brain to think dynamically and co-create emergent community led solutions. They joyfully invite the global Black and oppressed community to fully realize and claim their sovereignty to shape future Black history. As a multi-powered artist and luminary, their work serves to open a portal inviting all to launch their own ritualized healing journey towards liberation for the collective's survival.
Sovereignty, transformation, and an unapologetic exploration of pleasure are the dynamic currents vibrating in Marla’s genre-full body of work. Their mission to make the revolution irresistible fiercely shines through their work as reclamations of self, space, and spirit. Like their Haitian ancestors, all of their liberation visions manifest through daily testimony as a modern-day griot breathing life into the revolution.
