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Grada Kilomba is a Portuguese writer, theorist, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work draws on gender, race, trauma and memory, and it has been translated into several languages and published in international anthologies, magazines, and journals as well as staged internationally. Her work is best known for using a variety of formats, from print publications to staged readings and performance, combining both academic and lyrical narrative.

Her recent works includes, a film on the African liberation leader Amílcar Cabral, titled: “Conakry” (2013) which she wrote for and performed at, directed by Filipa César and reported by the radio host activist Diana McCarty, staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and screened among others at theater Arsenal, Berlin and the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. The staging of “Plantation Memories” (2013), at the theater Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin. The lecture performance “Decolonizing Knowledge” (2015) where she explores the concepts of knowledge, race and gender and the questions of ‘who can speak?’ and ‘what can we speak about?’ To touch this colonial wound, Grada Kilomba creates a hybrid space where the boundaries between the academic and the artistic languages confine, transforming the configurations of knowledge and power.

She is the co-editor of “Mythen, Masken and Subjekte” (2005), an anthology on Critical Whiteness; and the author of “Plantation Memories” (2008), a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories, first released at the International Literature Festival, at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, followed by the Oslo Literature House, among others.

Grada Kilomba has been lecturing at several international universities in the frame of Postcolonial studies, and last was a [https://www.gender.hu-berlin.de/de/zentrum/personen/ma/kilomba Professor for Gender Studies at the Humboldt University, Berlin, where she lectured: Decolonial Feminism, Decolonizing and Performing Knowledge.

With origins in the West African Islands São Tomé e Príncipe and Angola, she was born in Lisbon, where she studied Clinical Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the Instituto Superior de Psiclogia Aplicada (ISPA).