The Feminist Files - Why feminism has to be messy: Frictions, encounters and movements within diasporic Black feminism with Dr Sophie Niang.

In today’s episode, Helena Kondak and Astrid Healy Carrasco were joined by the fascinating Dr Sophie Niang to discuss her academic work. Dr Niang completed her PhD in 2023 at Cambridge, after a Masters at Goldsmiths and an undergraduate at Cambridge in Human, Social and Political Sciences. We explored her academic journey, from Afrofeminism in France to her concept of “Worldmaking” in France. We explored the multiplicity of Black feminism, Blackness and France as an object of study. We discussed how Black feminism can be understood as a necessarily diasporic movement; and how theoretical work can be channelled in public space, in the midst of governmental repression and deliberate attempts to ignore institutionalised racism and sexism. In the episode, we mention: ‘What is a nation’, Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?  - Ernest Renan on French nationality Maboula Soumahoro Kiffe ta race podcast episode - https://www.binge.audio/podcast/kiffetarace/2020-et-lon-decouvrit-le-racisme-made-in-france Afrofem by Mwasi - https://www.mwasicollectif.org/en/ Maboula Soumahoro interview on JINS podcast, Corps noirs, afroféminisme & Islam https://open.spotify.com/episode/2fujSP7tpsrrFEJWvei1Hl?si=062d665a6ff44b68 La conscience politique - Geoffroy de LagnaserieGod's bits of wood, Ousmane SembèneCredits:Co-hosts: Helena Kondak and Astrid Healy-CarrascoEditor: Rose Papadopoulos-HeddenCreative assistant: Reese Marley Robinson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.