Rokhaya Diallo (born 10 April 1978) is a French journalist, author, film-maker, and activist for racial, gender and religious equality.

[4] After obtaining a bachelor's degree in International and European law, Diallo went on to study business, which led her to work for a short period at IBM, which she left because she felt "like a pawn".

[6] She also campaigns for the organization ATTAC, which fights for sustainable and socially just globalization policies, notably during the Film Festival "Images mouvementées".

[citation needed] Diallo became a radio and television commentator and in 2011 she published Racism: a guide, in the philosopher Vincent Cespedes' collection.

"[citation needed] In 2002, Diallo took part in different humorous short-films by the group Une case en moins,[14] as an actress, singer and songwriter.

[16] With four other leading figures – François Durpaire [fr], Marc Cheb Sun, Lilian Thuram and Pascal Blanchard – she developed a list of 100 propositions for "a multicultural and post-racial Republic".

[citation needed] In March 2014, she published an editorial opinion piece in the weekly review Politis for International Women's Day.

[18] Along with other personalities (Audrey Pulvar, Lilian Thuram, Pascal Blanchard...), she is featured in the October 2011 issue of Respect Mag magazine entitled "100% Blacks in France ".

She has produced several reports for the French press, such as on women in Bahrain and on racism in Tunisia for Les Inrocks, or on the Black Lives Matter movement, which made the front page of the newspaper Libération.

Caroline Fourest writes that Diallo complacently interviewed Dieudonné and Alain Soral in her programme Égaux mais pas trop on LCP on 9 August 2012.

From 6 December 2014 to 31 May 2015, she hosted, on Mediapart, six programmes in a series called Alter-égaux, devoted to "issues of inequality and equality, race and racism, discrimination and affirmation.

38 She invites successively: Jean-Loup Amselle; Dominique Sopo; Nadia Geerts; Caroline De Haas; Raphaël Glucksmann; and James Cohenn.

Her arrival on the show was linked to a line change wanted by host Cyril Hanouna after the criticisms for the "homophobic, racist and sexist remarks" that targeted her during the 2016–2017 season.

This announcement caused a surprise on social networks, as the programme was "pinned for discriminatory abuses".43 Rokhaya Diallo explains his decision to accept the position as follows for Libération: "The audience of Touche pas à mon poste!

[30] Rokhaya Diallo defends the organization of summer camps, some of whose meetings are "open only to 'racialized' people, i.e. those who feel they are victims of discrimination because of their origin [...]62".

63,64 "She claims non-mixing as a useful political tool for anti-racist and feminist causes, which, in her view, makes it possible in particular to protect oneself from what she describes as "State racism".

In an article for Slate, she writes on this subject: "Afrofeminist meetings that are not mixed are in no way intended to propose a definitive project for a segregationist society, since they are part of the temporality of a specific event.

Rokhaya Diallo is one of the signatories of a column, published in L'Obs, criticizing two passages of a policy text adopted for three years by the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP) at its congress on 30 March and 1 April 2012.

Those of Portuguese, Chinese or Jewish origin – or even people from Auvergne, whose social, economic or cultural organization, often marked by community belonging, is highly visible in the public sphere – are spared any criticism."

It is close to non-mixed Afrofeminist movements such as the Mwasi collective and to intersectional feminism, which believes that oppression or domination can be multiple (gender, class, race...).

»[citation needed] In February 2015, Frédérique Calandra, PS mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris, refused Rokhaya Diallo a platform to talk about violence against women during the Week for Gender Equality.

"[citation needed] Rokhaya Diallo spoke in a small room on the 20th, where more than a hundred people came to listen to her, particularly about the discriminatory treatment of sexual assault.

Emmanuelle Rivier, Europe Ecology deputy for the Greens in charge of equality in the district, said she did not understand the reasons for the city council's refusal to invite Rokhaya Diallo.

[citation needed] In 2015, Caroline Fourest wrote: "Reading Rokhaya Diallo, it is never the time to denounce patriarchal and fundamentalist oppression, even when you are a victim and yourself a Muslim.

Her "feminism" is used to mock feminists of Muslim culture who dare to stand up to fundamentalism sometimes at the cost of their lives, accusing them of wanting to sell "best-sellers".