Françoise Vergès is a political scientist and a “decolonial” feminist activist and educator, author of twelve books, including Monsters and revolutionaries. Colonial family romance and "métissage" (1999), Resolutely Black. Conversations with Aimé Césaire (2020-  Nègre, je suis, Nègre je resterai. Entretiens avec Aimé Césaire 2005, Negro Soy, Negro Me Quedo, 2020), The Womb of Women. Race, Capitalism, Feminism (2020 Le ventre des femmes. Capitalisme, racialisation, féminisme 2017) and Un féminisme décolonial (2019, trans. in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish).

             She was a member of the Center for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University College of London (2000-207), head of the scientific and cultural team for a museum in Reunion Island (a "museum without objects »), Chair Global South(s) at Collège d’études mondiales, Paris and the chair of the French National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery (2008-2012).

             She is the president of the Decoloniser les Arts association. She works with artists and has initiated L’Atelier, a collaborative workshop with artists of color in France, organized decolonial performances in museums ("The Slave in Le Louvre" -2012-2017; "The Haitians invites themselves in the Napoleon museum" (2019), and "Regards croisés sur l’orientalisme" at Musée Delacroix (2018) and contributed to conversations on the decolonization of public space. Being from Reunion Island, she is interested in south-south artistic, cultural and political circulations, and currently in the neoliberal economy of predation and extractivism.

[Françoise Vergès is a political
scientist and a “decolonial” feminist,
activist, educator and author.]

Françoise Vergès is a political scientist and a “decolonial” feminist activist and educator, author of twelve books, including Monsters and revolutionaries. Colonial family romance and "métissage" (1999), Resolutely Black. Conversations with Aimé Césaire (2020-  Nègre, je suis, Nègre je resterai. Entretiens avec Aimé Césaire 2005, Negro Soy, Negro Me Quedo, 2020), The Womb of Women. Race, Capitalism, Feminism (2020 Le ventre des femmes. Capitalisme, racialisation, féminisme 2017) and Un féminisme décolonial (2019, trans. in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish).

             She was a member of the Center for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University College of London (2000-207), head of the scientific and cultural team for a museum in Reunion Island (a "museum without objects »), Chair Global South(s) at Collège d’études mondiales, Paris and the chair of the French National Committee for the Memory and History of Slavery (2008-2012).

             She is the president of the Decoloniser les Arts association. She works with artists and has initiated L’Atelier, a collaborative workshop with artists of color in France, organized decolonial performances in museums ("The Slave in Le Louvre" -2012-2017; "The Haitians invites themselves in the Napoleon museum" (2019), and "Regards croisés sur l’orientalisme" at Musée Delacroix (2018) and contributed to conversations on the decolonization of public space. Being from Reunion Island, she is interested in south-south artistic, cultural and political circulations, and currently in the neoliberal economy of predation and extractivism.