Françoise Vergès
is a independent researcher, antiracist feminist educator and activist, author of twelve books among which Monsters and Revolutionaries (Duke UP 1999), Le ventre des femmes. Capitalisme, racialisation et féminisme (2017), Nègre je suis, Nègre je resterai. Entretiens con Aimé Césaire (2005), Un féminisme décolonial (La Fabrique 2019). She has been the president of the Comité national pour la Mémoire et l'Histoire de l'Esclavage and is currently independent curator and president of the association Décoloniser les arts.