Fania Noël

Fania Noël
Nationality	France Haiti

Fania Noël, or Fania Noël-Thomassaint, is a Franco-Haitian author and an activist for Afro-feminist causes.

Career

Noël was born in Haiti, and she grew up in Cergy, France.[1] Noël studied at the Sorbonne, obtaining a master's degree in political science there.[2]

Noël was a co-founder of the publication AssiégéEs, which she became publication director of in 2015.[3]

Noël authored the book Afro-communautaire : Appartenir à nous-mêmes[4] as well as the edited collection Afrofem, both released with the publisher Éditions Syllepse (Fr).[5]

In addition to writing and editing, Noël has also engaged in political and social activist work. Originally an activist with the French Socialist Party, she then moved to the Left Front,[1] before disavowing these institutional affiliations and joining the activist collective Mwasi (which means "girl" or "woman" in Lingala[6]).[7] Noël was also a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement in France.[8]

References

1. Hadni, Dounia (3 April 2016). "Fania Noël : le combat entre soi". Libération (in French). Retrieved 5 August 2020.
2. Chouaki, Yasmine (9 May 2016). "Fania Noël". Radio France Internationale. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
3. "AssiégéEs vous présente son premier numéro : L'étau". AssiégéEs (in French). June 2015. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
4. "Le colorisme sévit toujours dans les séries afro-américaines". Slate (in French). Retrieved 5 August 2020.
5. "LP-Umoja France: Rencontre avec Fania Noël Thomassaint avec son livre " Afro communautaire, appartenir à nous-mêmes "". LP-Umoja France (in French). 22 November 2019. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
6. Sorgue, Pierre (28 July 2018). "" Ne nous libérez pas, on s'en charge " : le cri des afroféministes". Le Monde. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
7. Cherrid, Margot (13 July 2020). "Pourquoi le combat antiraciste est de plus en plus porté par des femmes". Cheek Magazine. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
8. McAuley, James (8 August 2016). "Black Lives Matter movement comes to France. But will it translate?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 August 2020.