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The Representation of Black Women in France: A Roundtable with Graphic Novelist Jessica Oubli茅
Prof. Julin Everett (Scripps) & Prof. F茅ly Catan (Pitzer) will be hosting a roundtable discussion with Guadeloupean graphic novelist Jessica Oubli茅 on her current project on the representation of Black women in France. The event will be in French with English translation. Come for a great conversation, with refreshments and a book raffle!
Biography of Jessica Oubli茅
Jessica Oubli茅 is a graphic novel author who led several investigations on France鈥檚 relationship with its ultra-marine territories. Her most famous investigation, (2020), examines how the French State authorized and encouraged banana farmers to use chlordecone pesticide for decades 鈥� even after the US had warned about its sanitary and environmental consequences and banned it in 1976. Her first graphic novel, P茅yi An Nou (2017), which received the France Culture Prize, investigated a migration program that the French State organized between 1960-1980, enticing workers from Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, and La R茅union to move to France. Oubli茅 also co-edited two other graphic novel projects: an atlas on biodiversity in the city of Morne-L鈥檈au, Guadeloupe, and a collection of testimonies from Black female immigrants in Europe. Oubli茅 is currently coordinating the publication of a collaborative graphic novel on the spread of Sargassum algae in the Caribbean.