Moussem Open Studio | "Do you have a copy?" by Bochra Triki

"DO YOU HAVE A COPY?”

For one of her many unfinished projects, Bochra Triki spent 2020 collecting testimonies from Tunisian feminist activists, active from the late 1970s on. These testimonies evoke the informal beginnings of a movement in opposition to the state feminism that prevailed at the time -- a movement that was deeply rooted and active within the context of dictatorship. What remainsof this era? Fragments of memories, an eight-issue magazine, a few scattered writings, and an absence from official narratives and contemporary feminist memory.

In the work-in-progress “Do you have a copy?'' we will hear fragments of these powerful and necessary experiences, look at excerpts from archives, and discuss their multiple resonances.

Note: This project was initially started by Bochra Triki and Monia Ben Hamdi as part of their work to preserve collective memory within the Inkyfada podcast.

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