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 the second episode of our Legacy Series with Françoise Vergès, we move from memory to critique. Françoise unpacks her analyses of carceral feminism and the NGO-isation of justice work, asking what happens when feminist movements become professionalised or absorbed by the state.
She challenges us to name the forms of violence legitimised in the name of safety, and invites us to imagine alternatives rooted in abolition, accountability, and disobedient archives.
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