TALK with Françoise Vergès: On decolonial and intersectional feminism

Name: TALK with Françoise Vergès: On decolonial and intersectional feminism
Start: 2024-10-18T19:00:00+03:00
Location: Rezidența9

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Rezidența9 | Bucharest, BU

(The talk will be in English)
We are happy to welcome 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜̧𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞̀𝐬, a Franco-Reunionnese theorist, a Decolonial antiracist feminist and an independent curator, for a meeting with NAZRA, in partnership with the French Institute in Bucharest, Editura TACT and Rezidenta9.
📅 October 18, 7pm
📍Rezidenta9 (Ion Luca Caragiale 12)
The discussion will be facilitated by Delia Grosu, researcher in Decolonial Studies and will focus on 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞̀𝐬's manifesto essay 𝑼𝒏 𝒇𝒆́𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎𝒆 𝒅𝒆́𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒂𝒍, a key concept for understanding feminism from the perspective of racialized women.
You can purchase the book in Romanian here: https://edituratact.ro/colectii/colectia-de-strada/francoise-verges-un-feminism-decolonial/

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𝘼 𝙫𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙞𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 - Judith Butler
For too long, feminism has been co-opted by the forces they seek to dismantle. In this powerful manifesto, Francoise Verges argues that feminists should no longer be accomplices of capitalism, racism, colonialism and imperialism: it is time to fight the system that created the boss, built the prisons and polices women’s bodies.
A Decolonial Feminism grapples with the central issues in feminist debates today: from Eurocentrism and whiteness to power, inclusion and exclusion. Delving into feminist and anti-racist histories, 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞̀𝐬 also assesses contemporary activism, movements and struggles, including #MeToo and the Women's Strike.
Centring anticolonialism and anti-racism within an intersectional Marxist feminism, the book puts forward an urgent demand to free ourselves from the capitalist, imperialist forces that oppress us.
This book is an invitation to reconnect with the utopian power of feminism, that is to say with an imagination capable of bringing about a radical transformation of society.

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Françoise Vergès (Reunion Island-France) is currently Senior Fellow Researcher, Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Race and Racialisation, UCL, London, a writer, independent curator and decolonial activist. Recent publication: A Program of Absolute Disorder. Decolonize the Museum (Pluto, 2024).
Delia Grosu is researcher in Decolonial Studies and Memory Studies. She has a PhD in Philology, and she is currently Teaching Assistant at the University of Bucharest. She is part of Nazra - Expressions of Arab Cultures, where she organises a bookclub and talks about (post)colonialism, decolonization, feminism, migration and memory.
Editura TACT is an independent publishing house which publishes books with a progressive vision and engages in projects dedicated to producing critical discourse in contemporary social sciences and the arts (philosophy, sociology, history, economics, literature, architecture, cinematography, theatre, conceptual art).