Melissa Thackway is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African Cinema at Sciences-Po and INALCO in Paris. Her recent translations include A Feminist Theory of Violence by Françoise Vergès, Contemporary African Cinema by Olivier Barlet, Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema-Going in Colonial West Africa by Odile Goerg and African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction by Daniela Ricci.
Melissa Thackway
The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety
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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