Mending Matrilineality: Re-presencing Indigenous Foremothers Intergenerational Memory of Dutch Colonialism in Indonesia

In this talk Professor Eclair offers a close reading of the ‘10,000 Asian Foremothers’ digital archive, established in 2022 by crowdfunding with the aim of collecting and digitizing images, or their absences, of indigenous women. In the process, the archive is simultaneously making coloniality of gender visible and working collaboratively to delink from it. In doing so, I explore both the possibilities and limitations of this project in making visible the silenced histories of slavery and the colonial hierarchies of gender, race, and sexuality.