Françoise Vergès
What we wrote when Françoise took part in Episode 11, 2024:
Françoise Vergès is an antiracist feminist activist, a public educator, an independent curator, and the cofounder of the collective Decolonize the Arts and of the free and open university Decolonizing the Arts. She received her political education from her anticolonial communist parents and the people in Réunion Island, an education she pursued in Algeria, Mexico, England, the UAE, the USA, and France, received her Ph.D in Political Theory (University of Berkeley, 1995).
She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism (Pluto), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (Duke), Monsters and Revolutionaries: Colonial Family Romance and Metissage (Duke), and numerous books in French. Her last book “ Une théorie feministe de la violence: pour une politique antiraciste de la protection” published in France at the end of 2020, sheds light on state-supported institutions such as the justice system and prisons, which paradoxically, by aiming to decrease violence, contribute to enhancing it.
Artist Events
Toward Nakba as a Planetary Process
Anti-Denialist Museum of Palestine Ayreen Anastas Rene Gabri Houria Bouteldja Avery F. Gordon Amirah Silmi Françoise Vergès Additional Contributors
An assembly to try and provide some experiential and theoretical resources for the renewal of a certain affective, extra-political sociality, in the face of one of our great adversaries; the forces of colonial, imperial, genocidal denial.