What it is: CFT is a repository of reclaimed narratives. It is about being a woman and being out in the world. It is about finding power, rage, joy, and peace at the intersection of the personal and the political. It is about whatever I may think about on any given day, which vacillates wildly between the sensible and absurd.

Who I am: My name is Marcelle Beaulieu. I was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, and raised in New Orleans. I spent my twenties in academia, researching and writing about U.S. immigration policy (yikes). I spent my early thirties as a waitress and my late thirties trolling the halls of the Louisiana Legislator as the policy analyst of the Speaker Pro Tempore. I have spent the last five years building Louisianahbrah, a community dedicated to creating progressive policies in Louisiana—a Sisyphean yet v necessary task.

I have worn glasses chains since childhood. I don’t understand basic concepts like four-wheel drive, but I can write you a dissertation on banana daqs. I have been a solo traveler for more than half my life, and I am earnest as hell. My last name is pronounced like polio with a B.

My hope: is to create a space that finds the mystical in the mundane, and maybe also talk about Nicholas Cage sometimes.

You can check out my series Twenty Years Ago Today commemorating the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina here.

You can check out my newsletter on Louisiana politics here.

You can read my Tiny Love Story here, which was inspired by the photo above.

Thank you for being here.