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Mache ansanm, then, becomes an intersectional and interactive site to think through what constitutes queer world-making in Haiti. As we recognize the ancestral and divine entities that accompany dynamic Haitian modes of being and becoming, we also register the ways in which transnational friendships and collaborations that extend from personal intimacy, economic support, and other expressions of solidarity are central to survival for gender and sexually non-conforming Haitians. These affiliations too are at the foundation of our, the editors’, survival as creative scholar-activists who do our work with a conception of “alongside-ness” or “beside-ness”; that nou mache ansanm/we walk together with our collaborators, interlocutors, peers, and friends. Nou is the Kreyòl pronoun that means both “we” and“you all.” This reflexive collectivity is key for nou mache ansanm to operate as theory, philosophy, and imperative.