Nice to meet you, we're Dee Haus :)

Welcum in ta wi website!

Hello, my(our) name is Dee Haus! I am a system that makes art about my various intersectional experiences in life, as well as lots of other stories involving a lot of original characters. I want to make this a webspace where I can share all the things I make, as well as blog about my experiences too!

Wait... what's a system?

Glad you asked! To quote did-research.org, ""A system is a collection of alters within one body. The entirety of a dissociative identity disorder (DID) system includes all of the alters within one body." So yeah! I'm someone with DID, and call the collective experience of having alters as "being in a system". I go back and forth using "I" or "we" depending on how whole/split we feel, honestly. It can vary wildly, even minute to minute @-@ We will explain/eplore this more in our future posts and art, too!!

Cool! But what's that phrase you used at the beginning?

The phrase I used, "welcum in ta wi website", is my way of typing Gullah Geechee dialect of english that I remember. To shorten what is a very long and beautiful history lesson, The Gullah Geechee are a people who descended from the first African people brought to the United States through slavery, who mainly lived in the Lowcountry sea islands and coasts of SC and GA, and some of NC and FL. There is a whole creole language that formed due to all of the languages that had to mix together, and it became what is known today as the Gullah Geechee creole language/dialect, an African American language.

I was born and raised partially in Charleston, SC, and have family from Georgetown, SC. There's some phrases I remember from childhood, as well as a way of speaking baked within me that comes up at times... but the American education system did a good job of whitewashing it out of my speech. Now, in adulthood, I do what I can to reclaim the language that was attempted to be stolen from me; that's a big long way of saying that sometimes I will attempt to write in what should be my native tongue. Keep in mind, however, two things:

1. Gullah Geechee is a spoken language only. It has no official written version, I'm mostly writing what I personally think it sounds like, which is what I've seen most other Gullah people do online. And also,
2. I am very far removed from my culture at this point, unfortunately. I haven't been in the South since 2016, and had a lot of my language stripped from me in childhood (they thought it was a speech impediment :( ). So what I write now is what I've relearned from others, as well as working memory of family members. I will make mistakes as I relearn. (honestly, wi be mo kumya den binya, at this point :/)

For these reasons, I should not be considered any sort of authority when it comes to the Gullah dialect. I mainly just wanna express myself and be fa hab fun now :)

Nice! When can I expect to see more?

Umm.... hopefully eventually!! XDDD

I graduated as an art major last school year, and I feel like it's Time(tm) to start at least cataloging my portfolio, if not already builing my career as an independent artist. So this year(2025), I'm challenging myself to dive in and start to make that dream a reality. I want to have V.1 of this full website up and running by February 2025. Hopefully with that being written in a public forum with street cred on the line, I'll actually feel the pressure to get it done XD We'll see... IN FEBRUARY!!!

Tenkie tenkie s'mach fa kumba wi website!

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