Françoise Vergès

Françoise Vergès is a Franco-Reunionnese political theorist, writer, independent curator and antiracist feminist, currently based in Paris. She is the author of numerous books, including A Decolonial Feminism (2019), Aimé Césaire, Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès (2020), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (2020) and the recently published A Feminist Theory of Violence. Her PhD (University of Berkeley) Monsters and Revolutionaries, Colonial Family Romance was published by Duke University Press in 1999. She writes on slavery, colonialism, imperialism, decolonial feminism, and new politics of dispossession and racialization. She is the curator of “L’Atelier”, a regular collective workshop among artists and scholars, and other events. She is an activist in the global antiracist struggle.