Estelle Coppolani

Writer from Reunion island. Indian Ocean & France.

[Libération @libe]

✍️ #LundiPoésie : Estelle Coppolani, jeune poète originaire de la Réunion, dévoile un premier recueil où sont évoquées des esclaves marronnes légendaires et des «engagées» venues d’Inde. https://t.co/eLBrbuVFpq

["Coffee is the aroma of the (lost) land" @AhneeMarek]

Indo-Reunionese leader -and self-styled "indépendantiste de droite"- René Kichenin with Guyana's Cheddi Jagan during the Independance festivities in Mauritius.

📰Le Trident, 17th-24th march 1968 edition. Saint-Denis, Réunion.

["Coffee is the aroma of the (lost) land" @AhneeMarek]

Dēvabhāṣā culture and its White academic enablers made 2 yrs of
சமஸ்கிருதம் a calvary.

Sanskrit has been a deep plot of Caribbean/Mascarine gardens. Like Latin once in Kreol cultural soundscape,& contrary to similar presumptions. I hope to get back, but thru Dr Pawde 🔵🪷

[Brandon Gercara @brandon_gercara]

Marche des visibilités LGBTQIA+ 2023
13h - Jardin de l’État, Saint-Denis, Réunion

[Ari Gautier @gautierari]

#pondicherryarchives
Comrades Subbaiah and Saraswathi. Photos given to me by Pooja Chopra when I was working with her on her project “indigenous feminist anti-colonial expression in Pondicherry-A case study into Saraswathi Subbaiah”

[சுசித்ரா | Suchitra @artisuch]

A radical take during times when hustle culture is glorified & we look for ways to monetize everything. My Tamil writer friends often wonder why things are more ‘materialistic’ in English publishing. I confess my feelings are more conflicted, but the idealism is important to me.

[Brandon Gercara @brandon_gercara]

3EME MARCHE DES VISIBILITÉS LGBTQIA+ 2023, SAINT-DENIS ✊🏽

Plus d’info sur le programme de cette journée arriveront prochainement. Restez connecté•es 🌋

[Révolution Permanente @RevPermanente]

L’opération "Wuambushu" sur l’île de Mayotte, orchestrée par Darmanin, se prépare avec l’envoi de nouvelles unités spéciales de police. Un saut dans la gestion coloniale de l’��le qui se veut une vitrine pour la politique anti-immigration du gouvernement.
https://t.co/YvrfHHAz0Q

[Estelle Coppolani @ECoppolani]

Jean Fanchette around 1947, Beau Bassin, Mauritius. All rights reserved.

Almost looks like an artist from 1930s Harlem. The budding poet was only 15 yo.

[Celine Ramsamy Giancone @RamsamyCeline]

Honored to moderate the round table on the theme: "Do the Women of Reunion Island have a history ?"

[Fondation pour la mémoire de l'esclavage @fondation_me]

UN JOUR / UN PORTRAIT DE FEMME. A l’occasion du #8mars, la FME vous offre chaque jour un portrait de femme. Aujourd’hui, la marronne Flore Bois Gaillard qui mena la révolte des « Brigands » de l’île antillaise de Sainte-Lucie sous la Révolution Française. 1/5

[Island Pieces @islandpieces]

1/5 As today marks Mauritius' independence day, our first thoughts goes to the Chagossian people who have been forcibly uprooted from their islands. Image: Clement Siatous, Untitled, 2014,

[Estelle Coppolani @ECoppolani]

BOOM 💣 « Contrechant » est une anthologie (inédite en français) d’Audre Lorde, à paraître le 5 mai prochain, aux éditions les Prouesses !!Immense fierté de faire partie de cette aventure féministe aux côtés des éditrices, traductrices, de la postfacière & de l’illustratrice.

[Island Pieces @islandpieces]

Thank you for this opportunity to talk about the reality behind the Mauritian rainbow curtain! The episode is available on all major platforms that host podcasts. Fer nou kone ki zot panse ! L'épisode est en français.

["Coffee is the aroma of the (lost) land" @AhneeMarek]

Love this pic of Michel Legris, Kaya and Berger Agathe. The 2 seggaemen and the ségatier. Reminder that Kreol creative (artistic/intellectual/political) work isn't the gladiatorial arena of the anti-Black mind. But a space of collegial bond and shared history.