In this episode, host Katie Kheriji-Watts speaks with Françoise Vergès - co-founder and president of the Paris-based collective Décoloniser les Arts - about her life at the intersection of art, activism and scholarship. They talk about her formative early years in Réunion and Algeria, the fight against racism and misogyny in the French cultural sector, and the complex politics of (in)visibility.
mentioned in this episode :
Françoise Vergès on Twitter & Facebook
https://twitter.com/phamthikang
https://www.facebook.com/francoise.verges
Décoloniser les Arts on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/decoloniserlesarts
Décolonisons les Arts - 2018 book (in French)
https://www.arche-editeur.com/livre/decolonisons-les-arts-638
Voix/Voies entravées - 2020 book (in French)
http://www.editionskime.fr/publications/n-54-voix-voies-entravees-percees-emancipatrices
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