The 1938 Federal Theatre Project play Haiti has been repeatedly misattributed to the famous black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois, however, white New York Times journalist William DuBois is the author of the work. The play’s contemporaries were aware that the white DuBois authored the work, however, at several points in the last few decades the mis-take has been made—and it appears to occur predominantly at the level of the archive.

In January 2006, I was the first U.S. artist to participate in the annual small format theatre festival sponsored by the Cuban government at El Mejunje in Sta. Clara Cuba. The set-up for the performance was that Miss-Translation was the only contestant in the 2006 Miss-Representations of the USA Beauty Pageant, held in Cuba. She participated in three categories: the swimsuit competition (her one-piece vintage leopard swimsuit ironizing the extended U.S.