In the spirit of First Born Daughter’s diasporic ethos, it’s important to also examine what labor and success look like to Black women outside the United States.
Meet Rokhaya Diallo: journalist, writer and award winning filmmaker and one of France’s most prominent anti-racism and feminist activists. As a columnist for both The Guardian and the Washington Post, Rokhaya shares an uniquely, non-American-centric perspective on the roles gender and race and labor play in everyday life in France.
Hear how she became an expert in these spaces and what it means to do this kind of difficult but necessary work, especially in a place like France, a country that does not collect data on race.
Full episode here.
