About the legacy series
The legacy series is a long form conversation with senior feminists. These conversations take place over three or four episodes tracing feminist journeys and lessons over time.
About the episode
In this first episode of our Legacy Series with Françoise Vergès, we begin with formation: how place, memory, and the anti-colonial struggles of Réunion Island shaped Françoise’s early consciousness.
Françoise reflects on growing up under French colonial rule, the figures who shaped her early political thinking, and the role of memory as a site of resistance. Together, we explore how the personal becomes political, and how remembering can become a radical act.
Bio
Françoise Vergès is a political theorist, curator and writer
She writes on the afterlife of slavery and colonisation, decolonial feminism, the museum, and climate disaster and regularly works with artists. For the 2025 Bannister Fletcher Fellowship, she is organizing workshops on “Imagining the Post-Museum,” with in London, the Whitechapel Gallery, Mosaic Room and the Sarah Parker Remond Center for the Study of Racism and Racialisation at UCL, and in Paris, Cité internationale des arts and ULIP.
She is currently working on a film about struggles in Reunion Island and her parents’ personal archives. In 2024, she was, along with sociologist Fabien Truong, a curator and writer of the first edition of La Ville dansée in Paris.
Credits
Interviewee: Françoise Vergès
Interviewer: Nadia Asri
Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice
Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln-Hyde
Music: Mr. Trumpet by Ketsa, freemusicarchive.org