OTIS WORKSHOP presents PERSPECTIVES In tribute to Jacqueline Manicom
With Hélène Frouard, Nina Hatte and Améline Martias
A writer, midwife, and activist from Guadeloupe, Jacqueline Manicom was a powerful yet long-silenced voice of Black feminist and anticolonial thought. Her work, deeply rooted in care and lived experience, offers a radical rethinking of identity, embodiment, and liberation within French feminist history.
Blending political consciousness with intimate narrative, Manicom approached the body as a site of memory, vulnerability, and resistance. Writing, for her, became an act of survival and transmission, inseparable from her commitment to women’s health, reproductive rights, and social justice particularly in french overseas territories.
For this edition of PERSPECTIVES, Hélène Frouard, whose research has been central to the rediscovery of Manicom’s work, joins Nina Hatte, Jacqueline Manicom’s granddaughter and Améline Martias for a conversation at the crossroads of literature, Black feminism, memory, and intergenerational transmission. Together, they reflect on how revisiting silenced voices can open space for emotion, identity, and collective history today.
Conversation held in French.
