Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist History of Violence and A Programme of Absolute Disorder. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London. She lives in Paris.
White Women, Feminism and Its Repression of Slavery
Why do we need a decolonial feminism? In this extract, Françoise Vergès looks to the history of western feminism, showing how white women slave abolitionists were complicit in the ‘civilizing mission’, and how that affects the discourse today.
PODCAST: ‘Radicals in Conversation’ From Carcerality to Abolitionism
Françoise Vergès, Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean discuss the abolitionist response to carceral feminism, racial capitalism and state violence
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