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Carte blanche to Amandine Gay: adoptees, voices and images to rethink the family Recording made on November 8, 2021, at the Petit Auditorium of the BnF With this third carte blanche, the INA continues its Monday series dedicated to the history, figures and feminist struggles in its archives. Session hosted by Amandine Gay translated into French Sign Language with the financial support of the University Paris Lumières. In her latest film Une Histoire à Soi, Amandine Gay deals with international adoption, anchored in North-South and class relations, and restores the point of view of adopted people. Indeed, explains the director, reproductive justice requires considering the inequality of access to reproductive, contraceptive, abortive and sterilization techniques or even the placements and adoptions of children as resulting from systemic inequalities. She thus makes questions of adoption, parenthood and children's rights an urgent matter for class, feminist and anti-racist struggles. The evening organized by the INA will highlight the emergence of the voice of adoptees in the public audiovisual space over the last 50 years, based on an Afro-feminist and materialist rereading of archives and "making a family" in the 21st century. Amandine Gay is a director, sociologist and Afrofeminist, she has made two documentaries: Ouvrir la voix (available at the INA library) in 2017, on the place and representation of racialized women and Une Histoire à soi, in 2021, on the identity quest of five adopted children who question their origins. Her latest book Une Poupée en chocolat, was published in September 2021 (éd. La Découverte).