Calls for contributions:
Queer Herbarium. Call for articles for collective work
Published on 14 March 2023
The collective work Herbier Queer will examine the intersections between queer issues and botany through various disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. The book will be organized in the form of a plant atlas and will include illustrations.
Patrial-pact – Coloniality and the Left-Wing Sexism
Published on 20 March 2023
In this book-project we propose an exploratory/reflective decolonial investigation to locate the intersubjective structural/hegemonic, capitalist-historical, socio-economic, cultural and political relational process that characterizes a Patriarchal-Pact solidly operational throughout women and men's lived experiences.
(Un)performing gender in popular media
Published on 21 March 2023
A scientific meeting focusing on the contested transformation of identities and gender policies in media cultures.
Consenting, disturbing or deconstructing gender: traces of elsewhere in the contemporary Hispanic world
The Hispanística XX 2023 conference proposes to open the reflection on the presence of gender claims in the contemporary Hispanic world. The "Me Too" wave has been the trigger for various movements in the Western world, some of which have found their roots in a collective memory that has long been hidden.
Conferences, symposia, events…
News Media, Gender and the Republic
Published on 17 March 2023
Starting from the representations of gender formalized within media narratives participating in the construction of public problems of racism, sexism and homophobia, I propose to question the way in which these participate in producing race, class and Frenchness.
Seminar “Gender and the prison world” sessions 1 and 2
the 20 mars 2023
For people with a minority gender expression deprived of liberty, the prison institution represents an extension and reiteration of social norms and rules. It is necessary to reflect on the situation of trans people deprived of liberty and how the prison institution functions in a cisnormative and incidentally heteronormative system.
CANCELLED – Round table: Deviant ecologies
Author of Écologies déviantes. Voyages en terre queer (Cambourakis, 2021), Cy Lecerf Maulpoix proposes to cross perspectives. His multiple activities as a journalist, author, activist, or even yoga teacher tended ultimately towards only one thing: taking into account the experiences of queer people as a prism to understand and fight against economic and ecological domination.
Round table on the French translation of Charles Mills, The Racial Contract, in the presence of Ryoa Chung
March 24th, 2023
Speaker: Ryoa Chung, full professor in the philosophy department at the University of Montreal, director of the Center for Research in Ethics (CRÉ).
Epigenetics, a science that forgets gender studies. A look at a promise made in the USA
In this communication, I intend to propose a feminist critique of a public health program that draws its legitimacy from the controversial scientific field of epigenetics: the so-called "first thousand days" program.
University of Free Time: “Nature is queer!” by Claire Lahuerta
March 23th, 2023
A conversation to explore, based on journalistic research and artistic practices, new ways of thinking about our relationship with nature, which would not be domineering or destructive.
Punishing Islamophobia? French justice and anti-Muslim speech and actions.
March 27th, 2023
This seminar, open to master's students, doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and experienced teacher-researchers, will aim to take stock of the scientific production on Islams and Muslims in France for over thirty years and will explore the possibility of renewing the fields, approaches and paradigms used on specific themes.
Transidentity in business
the 05 April 2023
The goal is to raise awareness among participants about transidentity, a subject that is still little known. The group of students behind the project also want to find tools for professionals or future professionals who will have to take transidentity into account to support changes in mentalities and legal changes! The goal is to raise awareness and inform about this important topic, a societal issue.
Conference Racism and sexism in politics
March 24th, 2023
ACHAC is offering a conference linked to the exhibition: “Racism and sexism in politics”, by Pascal Blanchard, associate historian of the Acha Research Group, as part of the Week of the Fight against Racial Discrimination.
Systemic racism in question
The April 04 2023
On the occasion of the publication of the 2022 Special Edition of the journal Mouvements Qualifying racism: controversies and recognition of the racial fact, several authors of the issue compare their analyses around the notion of "systemic racism", which constitutes a sticking point in public and academic debates on the qualification of racism.
Consolation in contemporary British and postcolonial literatures
The April 6 2023
Organization: MARION COSTE, Jehanne EVENO, Diane GAGNERET, Annalena GEISLER, Vanessa GUIGNERY, Natacha LASORAK, Héloïse LECOMTE, Marion PERRIN
Others
How I went from woke capitalist to victim of the woke mob
Posted on 21 November 2022
Levi's was among the wokest of the woke. And I was in on it
Julia de Funès: Society is going astray “by making identity a priority”
February 17, 2023
In "The Century of the Lost", the philosopher, also a graduate in human resources, criticizes the obsession with identity and is concerned about the rise of communitarianism.
When young TikTokers make fun of wokeness
Published on 11 March 2023
CHRONICLE. Parodies are a huge hit on the app. But comedians looking for a career know that they're risking a lot by going too far.
The authorized “fake news” of neo-feminists, by Abnousse Shalmani
Published on 11 March 2023
A baritone's career was ruined on the basis of false accusations, Vanity Fair reports. The same week, a spokesperson for Osez le féminisme explained that femicides are the result of Judeo-Christian culture.
“A trans boy is a boy”: a mother accuses Puteaux town hall of transphobia towards her son
Published on 12 March 2023
A 12-year-old boy was refused access to the boys' dormitories during a stay in the mountains. A scandal for his mother, Sixtine.
Françoise Vergès: "The universal that the museum claims is a weapon of colonial domination" (Programme of Absolute Disorder)
Published on 13 March 2023
With Programme de désordre absolu: décoloniser le musée, Françoise Vergès signs one of the major essays of this beginning of the year. Contrary to the neo-liberal idea according to which the decolonization of the Western museum would be impossible, Vergès proposes, in the wake of Frantz Fanon, a powerful reflection that goes back through the history of the museum, which has never been a neutral space.
Suella Braverman orders 'woke' police to protect free speech and focus on fighting crime.
Published on 13 March 2023
Police common sense will be restored today when officers are ordered to focus on tackling crime rather than hurt feelings. Suella Braverman will introduce new rules requiring police forces to focus on serious crime rather than social media.
Rejection of an appeal denouncing the use of inclusive writing by Paris City Hall
Published on 14 March 2023
No text states that inclusive writing contravenes the French language, the administrative court ruled on Tuesday, rejecting the appeal of an association that was demanding the removal of two commemorative plaques from Paris City Hall.
Collective 50/50: VIP and “post-colonialism”, small murders between feminists at the trial of a former administrator
Published on 15 March 2023
A producer, former administrator of the 50/50 collective which fights for parity in cinema, was tried on March 14 in Paris for "sexual assault" on an actress. A hearing marked by the divergences of views within the movement and the questions linked to the presumption of innocence.
Wokeism did not originate in the United States by chance.
Published on 15 March 2023
Straight white males are America's new Salem witches. Researchers Joseph Bottum and Joshua Mitchell have explained why.
Charles Jaigu: “The art and manner of being anti-woke”
Published on 15 March 2023
CHRONICLE – Essayist and novelist Philippe Forest has immersed himself in the Franco-American debate on “deconstruction.” Is she the mother of the woke generation?
In San Francisco, controversy swells over a vast plan to "repair" systemic racism
Published on 16 March 2023
The city is proposing to give every African-American $5 million.
N-VA replaces 'woke' portraits with classical works in Antwerp: controversy in Flanders
Published on 16 March 2023
By forcing the Arenberg Theatre to remove photos of one of its most emblematic plays, in the name of the fight against "wokism", the N-VA has sparked anger in the north of the country.
Montpellier: the Queer film festival makes its big comeback
Published on 18 March 2023
From Monday 20 to Sunday 26 March, Montpellier will host the Rainbow Screen Festival. A queer film festival to be found in several locations in Montpellier.
The Oscars, Tarantino, Wokeism and His New Novel… Bret Easton Ellis Unfiltered
Published on 18 March 2023
He is the rock star of American writers. Having become a legend thanks to the monstrous American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis has always examined the world of the rich and powerful with an incisive pen, a mixture of black humor and terrifying realism.
Bret Easton Ellis on Cancel Culture
Published on 20 March 2023
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – Since the release of American Psycho in 1991, the American writer has opposed, with irony and intelligence, the culture of erasure that ostracizes non-politically correct works, recalls Olivier Amiel. A positioning that is still too rare in the United States, according to him.
Twelve drawings to question the gender of the city
Published on 21 March 2023
With her exhibition "Dans la place", presented from March 21 to 30 at the Studium as part of the Central Vapeur festival, the illustrator Ariane Pinel invites us to take a stroll through Strasbourg, wearing "genre glasses". At the same time, a unique collection of fanzines is also on display. Follow the guide!
Dylan Racana: Gender stereotypes must be tackled from kindergarten onwards
Published on 22 March 2023
Dylan Racana is a doctoral student in educational sciences at the University of Lyon. He studies the construction of gender inequalities. He has just published the book "Inequalities between girls and boys in nursery school. Discourse, representations and interactions in the classroom of school teachers". A book that addresses this widely studied question from a new angle: what is the place of the teacher - and therefore of their primary socialization - in the construction of students' gender?
Bret Easton Ellis: “Sensitivity readers, to hell!”
Published on 22 March 2023
INTERVIEW – The author of American Psycho returns with The Splinters. In an interview, he castigates the current climate of censorship and witch hunts in the United States.
Anticolonial and antiracist fair – 2023 edition program
Throughout the Show:
An exhibition of posters from environmental struggles in Indonesia. By the Indonesia Solidarity Association.
Living Palestine. A group game (15 people maximum).
Radio Fréquence Paris Plurielle – FPP will be setting up at Parole Errante during the Show with dedicated programming.
We are talking
Françoise Nore, Let's call a spade a spade! Bad use of words, that's enough!
Because it is constantly changing and/or evolving (it all depends on how linguistic phenomena are perceived), language is a moving system which, most of the time, reflects the transformations of our society.
Secularism in schools: regression in the field of struggle
Published on 10 March 2023
According to IFOP, 21% of teachers have already been threatened or attacked for reasons of identity or religion. This figure rises to 39%, concerning teachers in priority education zones! But, go figure, 62% of teachers under 30 think that students should be able to come to school in the outfits that suit them[1]… Is Pap Ndiaye really fighting against this worrying trend? Analysis.
“Gender dysphoria is an expression of our society’s narcissism.”
Published on 14 March 2023
INTERVIEW. At a time when Spain has just adopted a law allowing minors to undergo gender transition without their parents' consent, two psychologists are sounding the alarm.
Armenia: "Let us awaken our consciences to the beginnings of a new ethnic cleansing"
Published on 16 March 2023
At the initiative of the philosopher Daniel Salvatore Schiffer, around forty intellectuals, including Elisabeth Badinter, Edgar Morin and Dominique Schnapper, are calling for the defense of Armenia, "a noble and just cause."
From the fantasy of the “fachosphere”
Published on 16 March 2023
Secular activists who oppose the Islamist offensive and intellectuals who analyze its modalities, supporters of a democratic and social left who rise up against Islamo-leftist excesses, the rare politicians who evoke immigration control, personalities said to be of "Muslim origin" who reject Islamist dictates, those who defend Israel's right to exist, all are now sent back to the hell of the "fachosphere". Resistance to Islamization is accused of stigmatizing Muslims and of Islamophobia.
Pierre-André Taguieff: “Edwy Plenel, a “vigilante” in search of ethical cleaning”
Published on 17 March 2023
Edwy Plenel has just published "L'Appel à la vigilance. Face à l'extrême droite" (The Call for Vigilance. Faced with the Extreme Right) (La Découverte), an indictment in which he accuses several intellectuals, including Pierre-André Taguieff, of having gone over to the extreme right. The latter, because he is allegedly guilty of having adhered to the thesis of the "Great Replacement". He defends himself, and responds to Edwy Plenel, in a long text in which he describes him as "an agitator and agent of influence benefiting from a rare media complacency, who exercises his profession as a public prosecutor".
Pierre-André Taguieff. “Plenel, anti-Zionist and Islamo-worshipper”
Published on 18 March 2023
The professional demonizer that Plenel is is selective in his targets[1]. He goes so far as to feel sorry for the case of the Islamist of the Muslim Brotherhood tendency Tariq Ramadan, about whom he stated on November 5, 2017 on BFMTV: "I have always been against his demonization, just as I am against, under the pretext of terrorism, demonizing our Muslim compatriots whoever they may be."
Nathalie Heinich / Jean Baubérot, The Tears of Secularism / Disputatio
Published on 21 March 2023
"Secularism leads to intense controversies," recalls historian and sociologist Jean Baubérot at the start of this heated correspondence with sociologist Nathalie Heinich. Their exchanges confirm this.
Wokism: Is the university under its influence?
Published on 24 March 2023
Disrupted conferences, race and gender infiltration at university, offended students… Because of wokeness, universities are the scene of a growing confusion between knowledge and activism. The social sciences, particularly sociology, are particularly affected by this woke phenomenon. Is it inevitable? To answer this question, Eugénie Bastié receives sociologist Nathalie Heinich.
We're in the news
“The Vigilance Travail Social network defends a more emancipatory vision than identity withdrawal”
Published on 10 March 2023
After the Vigilance Université and Vigilance Collèges Lycées networks, the Vigilance Travail Social network has just been born. This initiative aims to bring together social workers, professionals in social and educational action, trainers, academics who wish to defend universalist and secular values.
The Tears of Secularism
Published on 14 March 2023
Regular readers of this blog on issues of secularism may remember my debate with sociologist Nathalie Heinich, when her book-"tract" was published: "What activism does to research". This disputatio gave rise to a second one: the writing of a book. A look back at a debate, not between anti and pro-headscarf but between banning and pro-choice.
This infamous campaign that the Brotherhood, Islamistophiles and useful idiots are unleashing against Florence Bergeaud-Blackler
Published on 15 March 2023
The French researcher has just published "The Muslim Brotherhood and its networks", a detailed investigation into the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood into Europe.
Who really wants Florence Bergeaud-Blackler?
Published on 16 March 2023
Islamists (and their supporters) have been up in arms against the researcher since the publication of her investigation into the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. Here we reveal their arguments and methods to try to silence her.
Controversies
"To consider rape as a social construct is to excuse it"
Published on 20 March 2023
FIGAROVOX/TRIBUNE – On the set of the show “Ce ce soir”, Marc Weitzmann sparked a controversy by declaring that “rape is part of the sexual drive”. Lawyer Louise El Yafi defends the writer. It is dangerous, according to her, to deny any biological data behind rape.
Roald Dahl and cancel culture: “Great works rewrite themselves”
Published on 14 March 2023
In this column for "l'Obs" the critic Alexandre Gefen warns. For him, the gestures of censorship or rewriting that seek to align a work with our contemporary morality run the risk of making it lose its power to challenge.
Ordinary propaganda
Cecilia Jourdan, the influencer who deconstructs the image of French women in the United States
Published on 11 March 2023
Too white, too bourgeois, too submissive: the French woman who has long been a role model for American women is no longer popular. The latter are now passionate about the Instagrammer Cecilia Jourdan, aka Hello French, a thirty-something queer and feminist who is very much in tune with her times, who has just surpassed one million subscribers.
Episode 2/4: Decolonizing painting
Published on 12 March 2023
A colonial power, France, which also exports orientalist painting, has contrasting judgments regarding the natural capacities of the "natives" it claims to "civilize" to become artists in the Western sense of the concept, and in particular painters.
At the National Assembly, symposium on the fight against racism and discrimination
Published on 13 March 2023
Madam, Sir, As part of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I am pleased to invite you to the conference that I am organizing on the fight against racism and discrimination which will be held at the National Assembly, Victor Hugo room, Thursday March 23, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 17 p.m.
Discrimination: an evening to define “The words that upset”
Published on 20 March 2023
Around thirty researchers have worked on a lexicon that attempts to define "The words that annoy". Lecture-conference this Monday at the Hôtel de Ville.
Five questions about the decision to exclude transgender women from women's track and field events
Published on 24 March 2023
The International Athletics Federation has decided to exclude transgender people from women's events. A turnaround that is accompanied by a tightening of the rules for intersex people. Five questions to understand the debate.
Equality Month – Round table: “Transidentity: the administrative, academic and medical journey of transgender people”
On the occasion of World Transgender Day of Visibility, the Faculty of Health is offering an interactive round table to address the different aspects of a trans person's journey.
Congress communication
Employment counselors facing managerial logic: an (in)compatibility illuminated by trajectory and gender
Published on 11 March 2023
Thinking about bicycle-cyclist assemblies from a gender studies perspective: the case of Brussels
Published on 17 March 2023
Various publications
Assistant professor position in gender studies
The Faculty of Social Sciences and its Institute of Gender Studies are opening registration for a 70% Assistant Professor position including…
Equality under conditions
Published on 8 March 2023
The first episode of the monthly show "Gender in the City" questions the implementation of the republican principle of equality in France. Political scientist Réjane Sénac highlights how its application is done "under conditions", without succeeding in stemming inequalities and gender domination.
Eva Doumbia: “Black families are made invisible in the French theatrical repertoire”
Published on 13 March 2023
Theater / With “Le Iench,” director and author Eva Doumbia, co-founder of the Décoloniser les arts collective, offers a political (and successful) play centered on an Afro-European family – in particular the son who, with his desire for a dog, “wants to break down the obstacles to banality for black boys.” We interviewed her before her visit to MC2.
Intersectionality and French law
Published on 15 March 2023
What is intersectionality? In this episode, Marie Mercat-Bruns, affiliated professor at the Sciences Po Law School and researcher at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CNAM), looks back at this term, which was coined in the United States in the late 1980s by African-American lawyer Kimberlé Crenshaw. She explains how French and European law are taking up this concept to take into account multiple discriminations.
Against wokeness and its indefensible excesses!
Published on 17 March 2023
EDITORIAL – Our columnist Michel Winock looks back at the intellectual sources of the woke movement, born in the United States, to fight against discrimination and the supposed supremacy of straight white males in the cultural sphere. And explores the driving force behind anti-wokeism, which, in France, finds its roots in the rejection of the thinking of May 68.
PORTRAITS OF FRANCE – PASCAL BLANCHARD CONFERENCE
Published on 17 March 2023
As part of the national week of education and action against racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia, the Edgar Morin library and the Pléiade laboratory (with teacher Rim Latrache) are organizing the arrival of the exhibition “Portraits of France”.
“Rewriting, reading, censorship”, by Paolo Tortonese
Published on 19 March 2023
"On March 10, in the program Les Matins de France Culture devoted to the debate on the question "Should we adapt the classics to their time?", Tiphaine Samoyault defended the decision of the publisher Puffin Books to modify the text of Roald Dahl's works, and considered this practice and its application to all works of the past to be generally acceptable.
Racism, anti-Semitism: rethinking school curricula
Published on 20 March 2023
The persistence of identity-based hostilities of all kinds at a high level, the progression of far-right political groups and the (re)activation in public and school spaces of ethno-racial identities with assigning effects call into question the capacity of the school to curb racism and anti-Semitism.
[Circle U.] Female Founders Retreat
Published on 21 March 2023
Are you a student interested in female empowerment in science, innovation and entrepreneurship? As part of the sustainable education initiatives led by Circle U. students, Université Paris Cité is organizing a two-day retreat around the creation of a network of women entrepreneurs.
Information practices of transgender people: Bérengère Stassin on Radio Primitive
Published on 21 March 2023
Bérengère Stassin answers questions from Dyke Qui rit, a Radio Primitive show following her article on the information practices of transgender people.
Items
Elgas, The Good Feelings. Essay on Post-Colonial Discontent
Published on 02 March 2023
Are Léopold Sédar Senghor, Yambo Ouologuem or Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, the 2021 Goncourt Prize winners, lunatics? Do they deserve this original opprobrium cast on certain African intellectuals leading to their disqualification?
Woke thinking
Posted on 25 November 2022
The definition of the term woke is rather vague and this allows anyone to identify the people they oppose as woke or to denounce under this name the demands that may seem the most outlandish in terms of social justice.
