Clarice is een bekroonde multidisciplinaire (film)maker, journalist, schrijver en community organizer die op het snijvlak van journalistiek, kunst, sociale rechtvaardigheid, filosofie en mysticisme werkt.
Ze werkt(e) onder andere bij BNNVARA, VPRO, als NRC-columnist en Correspondent Verzet en is co-founder van het feministisch journalistiek platform Lilith Magazine en LHBT+ organisatie Black Pride NL. Haar documentaire De waarheid over mijn vader won in 2020 een Gouden Kalf en haar film Ga terug en haal het werd in 2023 voor een Gouden Kalf geselecteerd. Haar meest recente boek Na verzet komt (r)evolutie (2025) over hoe persoonlijke en maatschappelijke ontwikkeling aan elkaar gekoppeld zijn is met lovende kritieken ontvangen.
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Clarice M.D. Gargard (Philadelphia, 1988) is a journalist, writer and documentary maker who combines journalism, art, social justice, philosophy and mysticism.
She makes documentaries, writes articles and books and organises in creative and social spaces. She worked as an NRC columnist and Correspondent Resistance at the Correspondent. She has also worked as an editor and presenter for AT5, BNNVARA (Joop), Vrij Nederland, Vogue, Harpers Bazaar and contributed to Vice, South African 702 Talk Radio and Afropunk. Gargard co-founded the feminist journalism platform Lilith Magazine with Hasna El Maroudi and the management and consultancy bureau Lilith Agency. She is also co founder of Black Pride NL. Gargard also writes a bi-monthly column for Conflict Management Magazine.
In 2019, Gargard was the Dutch women's representative and gave a speech on women's rights and the importance of systemic change at the United Nations General Assembly. As a maker and lover of art and culture, she is also a board member of the Prince Claus Fund. She was also part of the Supervisory Board of the Holland Festival and is on the Advisory Board of the Dutch Association for the United Nations.
The documentary Daddy and the Warlord, about her father and the Liberian civil wars, won a Golden Calf in 2019 for Best Short Documentary. She also won a Black Achievement Award in the People and Society category and was nominated in 2018 and 2019 for the Joke Smit incentive prize for her work and activism. In 2020 she won the feminist international Emma Goldman Snowball Award. Gargard's book Dragon Daughter (Arbeiderspers) about her family history, migration, politics and society is now for sale at bookshops. And will hopefully be translated to English soon.
In 2022, her documentary Go back and get it (VPRO) about the timelessness of black resistance in the Netherlands, Suriname and Curacao was released. It was selected for the Golden Calf competition.
In 2025 her new critically acclaimed book From resistance to (r)evolution about how to ignite a personal and societal (r)evolution came out.