Booklaunch | Vivre, libre · Amandine Gay

We invite you to the launch of ?????, ?????. ??????? ?? ?œ?? ?? ?? ?????́? ???? ?????ℎ?, a hard-hitting essay by Amandine Gay published by Éditions du remue-ménage.

Alexandra Pierre will host a discussion with the author.

This event is made possible thanks to the support of RéQEF.

FRIDAY · FEBRUARY 20 @ 6 p.m.
LIBRAIRIE UN LIVRE À SOI

 How can we live and emancipate ourselves in a world shaped by racial oppression? By starting to recognize its systemic dimension: more than an ideology of hatred, more than an individual or moral issue, it is a political regime whose historical and philosophical foundations continue to operate today.

In this book, Amandine Gay reveals its mechanisms through an exploration of her own journey and pop culture classics: from adult domination to family, friendship, sexuality, and work, she identifies the daily manifestations of white supremacy and the mechanisms that perpetuate it. As a keen observer of power relations, she points out the ordinary forms of racial violence, but also the means of freeing ourselves from it. Following in the footsteps of the Black Jacobins, whose post-revolutionary declaration of independence she echoes, the author invites us to shift our perspective and engage in active anti-racism, essential conditions for a truly universal emancipation.

Director and producer ?????? ?? ????, 2017; ??? ℎ??????? ?̀ ???, 2021), Amandine Gay is also an activist and author (??? ?????́? ?? ?ℎ??????, ?????-??́????, 2021). She is a regular speaker on topics such as Afrofeminism, cultural industries, and adoption.