Author, public educator and decolonial feminist Françoise Vergès presents the keynote Dismantling the Master’s House. In this session, she reflects on the increased violence on women’s bodies worldwide, including mutilations, dismemberment and burning as well as the assaults on refugees, migrants, indigenous peoples and communities of colour. She discusses how platforms bringing together artists, activists and scholars can contribute to thinking about these issues ‘historically in the present’. The keynote is configured as a palimpsest of memories, images and histories of struggle.