“Nos plats aigres irritent vos palais” is the title of the radio play by Stéphanie Rosianu that brings together different insurgent voices. Ones she wrote and ones she listens to.

The title of the play “Nos plats aigres irritent vos palais” (Our sour dishes irritate your palates) is a phrase from the French version of Bertolt Brecht’s play “Antigone”. In its French translation, this line has a double meaning of the word “palais”, which means both “the palate” and “the palace”. This double meaning embodies the will of this play to create stories that can irritate both the palate and the palace of the privileged.

The voices in the radio play have in common that they use words to challenge the system/cis-tem. Each of the voices tells stories that require different subjectivities than those shaped by patriarchal and colonialist ideas and other oppressive capitalist rules. Subjectivities that seek not to rise above one another, but to connect and join together to transform the hegemonic Eurocentric story into narratives that help us create a different sense of being together on this planet.