Public keynote by Chandra Frank hosted by Belgian Renaissance in collaboration with VUB-RHEA. Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Together with Joëlle Sambi Nzeba of Festival Massimadi (Africa and Diaspora LGBT Film Festiival) and Warrior Poets (Brussels Arts Collective).
Belgian Renaissance presents 'A Woman speaks : Audre Lorde - Uses of Archive & Transnational feminism' at Vrije Universiteit of Brussels - Tues 17.11.15. Chandra Frank (Dutch/South African) is an independent curator and writer. She holds an MPhil in African Studies from the University of Cape Town and is currently a PhD Candidate at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her work is focused on the Black, Migrant and Refugee women’s movement in the Netherlands during the 1980s. She explores the role of archives, Black feminist genealogy and the politics of pleasure and resistance. Frank is interested and committed to uncovering hidden herstories, creating alternative archives and thinking towards decolonial modes of research and curating. Her lecture will be followed by a talk of Joëlle Sambi Nzeba of Festival Massimadi (Africa and Diaspora LGBT Film Festiival) + a discussion with Warrior Poets (Brussels Arts Collective).