For several years, Mwasi has organized a week of events and gatherings around Black feminisms in France during the month of March. This week, traditionally held ahead of March 8, took place in 2025 during the last week of the month. We had to postpone it for logistical reasons.

That year, Guadeloupe was in the spotlight. Over the course of three days, we had the pleasure of welcoming feminists from Guadeloupe, who came to present the issues specific to their territory and the ways in which struggles are organized there.

📅 Program

Monday, March 24 – 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

🎬 Screening: Il est fini le temps des surettes
👉 Followed by a discussion with Barbara Olivier-Zandronis

Tuesday, March 25 – 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

✊ Talk by activists from ANG (Alyans Nasyonal Gwadloup)

Wednesday, March 26 – 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

🌹 Tribute Evening to Maryse Condé

📅 PROGRAM

Monday, February 28 → Saturday, March 5

📱 On Instagram @mwasicollectif
✨ “A Room of One’s Own”: Portraits of Black Creators
👉 Labor, Precarity & Housing Commission

Do Black creators have access to their own space? How? What does it look like?

Wednesday, March 2 – 7:00 PM

📍 CICP – 21 ter rue Voltaire, 75011 Paris
🎬 Workshop & Screening
👉 Police, Justice, Prison Commission

Screening of the film JUSTICE!, a five-part documentary by Marie Chartron and Marion Guégan, followed by a discussion with the audience on the issues of punitive justice and transformative justice.

Saturday, March 5 – 2:00 PM

📍 La Brèche Bookstore – 27 rue Taine, 75012 Paris
☕ Afrofem Café: Afrofeminist Politics

Discussion with Fania Noël about her new book:
📖 “And Now Power: A New Afrofeminist Horizon”

Sunday, March 6 – 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

📍 Artivist Lab with Aminata Labor
👉 Arts & Education Commission

Artivist labs offer Black artists the opportunity to share their artistic practice with other Black women.
For this Afrofeminist Week, the lab will host Aminata Labor for a body-centered workshop combining writing sessions and shared memories, in order to collectively reflect on the relationship between artistic practices and activist work.

📅 March 1–6, 2021
📍 Online & at La Flèche d’Or (Paris)
Solidarity in Times of a Pandemic

Discussions, workshops, readings, radio programs, and solidarity collections to build community and create solidarity among Black women and, more broadly, within our communities.

📅 Program

Monday, March 1

🗣️ Discussion & Debate on Care
📍 Instagram Live – Care Practices Commission

Tuesday, March 2

✍️ Writing / Reflection Workshop: A World Without Police or Prison
📍 Police, Justice, Prison Commission

Wednesday, March 3

📚 Children’s Reading
📍 Arts & Education Commission

Thursday, March 4

🎭 Evening Event: Creativity in Times of Crisis
📍 Queer & Trans Commission

Friday, March 5

❓ Afrofem Quiz
📍 Ideology & Political Theory Commission

🤝 Solidarity Collection
🕐 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
📍 La Flèche d’Or – 102 bis rue de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris

Saturday, March 6

📻 Afrofem Radio YANA (You Are Not Alone)
🎶 Music & high-quality contributions

🤝 Solidarity Collection
🕐 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 La Flèche d’Or – 102 bis rue de Bagnolet, 75020 Paris

For its first edition, Mwasi organized an Afrofeminist Week focused on labor. Whether domestic or waged, visible or invisible, work and the way it is organized stand at the core of patriarchal, racial, and capitalist domination.

From March 2 to 8, we offered training sessions on this issue with remarkable speakers, as well as an artistic workshop and performances for both children and adults. The week concluded on March 8 with the Village of Feminisms.

📍 Paris – March 2–8, 2020
✨ Trainings, workshops, performances, and talks

Thursday, March 5, 2020

6:30 PM – Workshop
Title: Understanding the International Division of Labor to Understand North/South Exploitation
👉 Speaker: Sonya Nour – communist and afrofeminist activist

Friday, March 6, 2020

6:30 PM – Training Workshop
Title: Invisible Domestic Workers as an Adjustment Variable of Inequalities Within Couples and Capitalism
👉 Speaker: Rose-Myrlie Joseph – Haitian sociologist