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Kiyémis is an Afro-feminist blogger, author and activist, committed to fighting sexism, racism and the social stigma of obesity. She is considered a figure of French afro-feminism. [1][2]
Her pseudonym "Kiyémis" is the contraction of the first names of her mother and grandmother.[1]
Biography[edit]
Born near Paris, she grew up between Bobigny and Paris.[3] Originally from Cameroon, her parents are middle class: her father is an accountant and her mother is a steward. She has a twin brother. She began writing at the age of eight. When she was thirteen, her family moved from the Seine-Saint-Denis to Seine-et-Marne.[4]
The 2005 French riots accelerated her political awakening because she did not recognize the media portrayal of where she grew up. Four years later, her Afro-feminist sensibility awakened after her brother explained to her that he was checked up to seven times a day, an experience that his white friends did not experience.[4]
In 2012, along with attaining her history degree, she launched her Twitter account, where she developed her thinking at the crossroads of feminism, anti-racism and the fight against the social stigma of obesity.[5] At the end of 2014, she started her blog entitled The Kiyémis Chatter: An Afropean Who Makes Noise, where she shares her readings, her reflections on life and her political opinions.[3] She uses the term Afropean because it allows her to designate her entire identity: both French and part of the African diaspora. She advocates the institutionalization in academia of Afro-feminist web content, in order to ensure better recognition of the women who create it.[6]
In 2017, she enrolled in a master's degree in history and political science at the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis[7]. She participated in the Amandine Gay documentary, Ouvrir la voix, which collects testimonies of black French women to highlight their journey. [4]
Inspired by the writings of Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde and Leonora Miano, she published her first collection of poems, À nos humanités révoltées, on March 22, 2018.[1] The twenty poems that compose the book tell of migration, memory, racism, unknown languages, sisterhood, militancy, Afro-feminism etc.[4] She uses inclusive writing in her book[5] On her blog, she also cites as a reference the American Afro-feminist intellectual Bell Hooks[8]
Originally from Paris, she resided in Lyon in 2018.[3]
Publication[edit]
- À nos humanités révoltées. Météorite (in French). Toulouse: éditions Métagraphes. 2018. p. 55. ISBN 978-2-490047-01-7.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Sandra Lorenzo (2018-04-28). "L'afroféministe Kiyémis sur Mai 68: "J'en ai marre de voir l'histoire française en monochrome"". Le Huffington Post (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ^ "Vidéo. Kiyémis : Parler de l'oppression des femmes noires, c'est parler de l'oppression de l'humanité". Le Monde.fr (in French). 11 April 2018.
- ^ a b c "Kiyémis, «femme, noire et grosse» entremêle art et politique". RFI (in French). 2018-03-02. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ^ a b c d Pauline Le Gall (10-04-2018). "Kiyémis traduit ses colères afroféministes en poèmes". cheekmagazine.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-04.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ a b "Kiyémis : "on ne devrait pas avoir honte de la colère"". Hétéroclite (in French). 2018-05-10. Retrieved 2020-03-04.
- ^ Mormin-Chauvac, Léa; Brown, Paloma Soria (2019-11-28). "Afroféminisme : place Net". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ Pierre Sorgue (2017-06-16). "« Ne nous libérez pas, on s'en charge » : le cri des afroféministes". M le Magazine du Monde (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-05.
- ^ "Les bavardages de Kiyémis". Les bavardages de Kiyémis (in French). Retrieved 2020-03-04.
External Links[edit]
Kiyémis's Chatter: An Afropean Who Makes Noise