Renee Mussai

Rene´e Mussai is a curator, writer, and scholar of visual culture, photography, and lens-based media with a special interest in Black feminist practices. Formerly senior curator and head of curatorial at Autograph, London, Mussai has curated and edited award-winning projects such as Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama—Hail the Dark Lioness (2019) and Lina Iris Viktor’s Some Are Born to Endless Night—Dark Matter (2020). Her latest book is the sole-authored Eyes That Commit—A Visual Gathering (2025).

Paul Gilroy is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics. He gained his PhD at Birmingham and then worked for the Greater London Council, before returning to academia with posts at the University of Essex, Goldsmiths College, and Yale. He is the author of numerous groundbreaking books including There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack, Between Camps, After Empire, Black Britain, and Darker than Blue. He lives in London.