Joëlle Sambi
Spreker
Born with her arse on a linguistic border between Brussels and Kinshasa, Joëlle Sambi tells it like it is, shouts it out, writes short stories, novels, slams, poems, documentaries, radio programmes and militant sites. This non-exhaustive list of the trails she travels is a labyrinth of struggles-desires-necessities. A nomadic mule who lifts, lifts, removes layers from the boxes of normative identity by sanding down text, oiling images and lathering up the stage.
From before to before.
From post-colonial soil to lands of origin, Joëlle mixes languages, penetrates the world with fervour and rigorous work. Viscera and reaction.
From I to Them
Her migrant, lesbian, Afrofeminist, permanently exiled voice writes not to make a living from it, but to abuse it, to the point where she can hear herself living.
Colères, Fusion(s) and Creations.
Published at
Caillasses - Poetry collection published in August 2021 by Editions L'Arbre de Diane
Et vos corps seront caillasses - L'Arche éditeur (2024)
Director of Angles Morts & Maison Chaos.