Calls for contributions:
Institutions and dominations. Women and research-creation of self
Published on 13 March 2023
This study day offers researchers from all disciplines, doctoral students or experienced researchers, a space for written and oral productions and performative expressions around violence, power relations and/or domination, and silences experienced during their experience at university.
The sense of self in the postcolony: between representation of sexualities and new perceptions of the body in literary cultures and visual arts (Mayotte)
Published on 20 April 2023
This call for contributions aims to question the manifestations of the feeling of self in the postcolony as it can be structured through the global imaginaries of sexual and bodily staging in the contemporary context of Africa (Maghreb and sub-Saharan) and the Caribbean.
Europe listening to its neighbors. Extra-European contributions to the construction of literary classics (Nantes)
Published on 21 April 2023
Since the 19th century and the advent of modern nations, the dynamics of heritage have involved the definition of canons. Certain works have been given an identity value because of their role in specifically literary traditions, but also, more generally, on a linguistic and cultural level.
Autochthony, Negritude, Creolization and Race Relations in the Overseas Territories
Published on 26 April 2023
In our century, the topic of race relations is still open to public debate in the field of human rights studies. However, the concept of race, even scientifically revised and understood as a social and political construction, is still a challenge for the debate in the humanities and social sciences on how relations between racial groups are experienced, the aspects related to power relations and how the topic enters the public agenda to combat racism.
The sense of self in the postcolony
Published on 27 April 2023
This call for contributions aims to question the manifestations of the feeling of self in the postcolony as it can be structured through the global imaginaries of sexual and bodily staging in the contemporary context of Africa (Maghreb and sub-Saharan) and the Caribbean.
Conferences, symposia, events…
Literature at the oblique. Dissident sexualities and genres: critical issues (Philomel seminar Paris, Sorbonne & online)
Published on 03 April 2023
Since the advent of gender studies and cultural studies in the last decades of the 20th century, feminisms, homosexualities, and gender issues have found their place in literary research.
Decolonial writings and scenes: what aesthetic modalities, what scenic imaginaries? Transnational perspectives
Published on 16 April 2023
Following on from the seminar “Dewriting and decolonizing imaginaries on the contemporary stage” (P. Dechaufour org., 2022), this study day will question the aesthetic modalities and scenic imaginaries deployed by decolonial writings and scenes.
Transdisciplinary Masters Study Day on Gender, 14/06/2023
Published on 27 April 2023
You are pursuing a Master's degree in one of the three faculties of Sorbonne University or in one of the SU alliance establishments, and your research topic focuses on gender, women, sex, sexualities, feminism, masculinities, intersectionality, queer studies and trans studies...
[Our Futures] Gender: upheavals, utopias, impatience. 3rd International Congress of the Gender Institute.
The Gender Institute is organizing its 4rd International Congress on Gender Studies from July 7 to 2023, 3, in partnership with the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. This highlight is an opportunity to bring together researchers from around the world to offer a moment of reflection on the place and shape of the future(s) and their gendered dimension in our societies, present and past, Western and non-Western.
Is there a convergence of feminist and ecological struggles?
Born in the 70s, the concept of eco-feminism has found a resounding echo in social mobilizations in recent years, crystallizing the idea of an intersection between struggles for environmental preservation and feminist demands.
[Conference] For an effective secularism. Or how to overcome controversies
With the law on the separation of Church and State (1905) and its inclusion in the Constitution (1946 and 1958), secularism appears as an important reference in France, increasingly invoked, but which arouses intense controversy.
Hélène Gaudy, getting involved in “the soft material of stories”: the place, the image and the trace
A trained visual artist, exhibition curator, member of the Inculte collective, author of novels, stories, children's books and art books – the many faces of Hélène Gaudy speak of the unique place that the writer occupies in the contemporary literary landscape.
From the universal / 1
This seminar proposes to pose the question of the universal in a decolonized world, that is to say plural and decentered. We will first discuss the concept of decentering based on readings of texts by Edmond Husserl, Simone Weil and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Round table “Intimacy, racialization and affects in contemporary migrations”
On the occasion of this round table, research and practice enter into dialogue to explore the scope of the “intimate” and its articulation with racialization and the affective economy in contemporary migrations.
Gender-based violence: understanding it, countering it
Gender-based violence is a social norm that is part of an order of things, an internalized doxa conveyed by different institutions (family, social environment, school, religion, media, etc.). This violence is a particularly widespread problem and reflects a sexist order from which no country in the world really escapes (WHO 2021).
Capturing the poly-vocality of audiovisual and digital archives in a postcolonial context.
In many memory institutions in France and on the web, funds linked to the colonial past are now accessible to all audiences and are the subject of disputes and debates within civil society.
Real estate heritage in a postcolonial context. Maintaining French schools in Morocco.
Intervention by Soufiane Taif (Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne-CESSP University) in the “Education” seminar.
Others
Wokism: "The cult of identity is a major weapon of destruction of freedom", warns Nicolas Baverez
Published on 6 April 2023
The Esprits Libres program broadcast this Thursday, April 6, had as its theme "Are our liberal democracies equipped to face the new authoritarian empires?"
Trans identities: from invisibility to media obsession
Published on 6 April 2023
For four months – from August to November 2022 – the AJL examined the content of the top 21 national media sites, from 20 Minutes to BFM, including Le Monde, France Info, L'Équipe and Les Echos.
"The trans lobby erases women and mothers"
Published on 6 April 2023
Today, 75% of adolescents who ask to change gender are girls. In a two-part essay that has just been published, feminist activist Marie-Jo Bonnet and gynecologist Nicole Athéa attempt to answer the question: "Why do so many young girls want to become boys?"
The Guardian newspaper apologizes for its slave-owning past
Published on 7 April 2023
In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, numerous initiatives to acknowledge the slave past and provide reparations are taking place in the United Kingdom. After Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, the Bank of England, the University of Cambridge, it was the Church of England in January 2023 and the British centre-left newspaper The Guardian in April 2023 that “apologised”, launched investigations and implemented a programme of “reparations”.
"Cancel culture is good for Sylviane Agacinski, not for Jean-Marc Rouillan or Virginie Despentes"
Published on 7 April 2023
In a column, André Perrin, a philosophy professor and author of several works, is amused by the fact that the far-left activist Jean-Marc Rouillan, convicted several times, notably for murder, can speak at the University of Bordeaux, where others have been censored.
Gender Theory in Schools: The Propaganda Continues
Published on 8 April 2023
Perhaps in the past, one might have believed that the ideological delusions and abstruse gibberish of gender theorists would remain confined to very specific circles. Now, they have overwhelmed the education system and the cultural field. The latest example: a so-called “artistic” festival in Mulhouse. Analysis by Didier Desrimais.
Neo-feminism, a totalitarian ideology?
Published on 9 April 2023
Jean Gabard publishes "Neo-feminism against the family" with the Paris editions Max Chaleil. The vast majority of the population of our countries is ready to put an end to the sexism that persists in patriarchal society and supports the women's liberation movement. But the neo-feminists want to impose their new ideology and put forward extremist demands. More concerned with fighting than debating, they outbid each other in radicalism and call for a total "deconstruction".
“Sorry, I’m HPI”: the new woke craze
Published on 9 April 2023
Are you a bit out there, not a hard worker and you collect jackets (school, sexual, professional)? Play HPI (high intellectual potential)! The new trendy thing to show off at parties and push yourself up in coconut start-ups.
“Patriarchal”, “brutal”… When feminists target nuclear power (and forget Marie Curie)
Published on 9 April 2023
Some feminists establish a link between nuclear power and the women's cause. At the risk of falling into essentialization and reaffirming certain stereotypes.
Accused Fascists, Stand Up: Woke Activists See Us All as Potential Culprits
Published on 9 April 2023
Wokeism followers increasingly stigmatize their opponents or adversaries with the infamous label of fascism. They do not hesitate to attack even those who preceded them, such as universalist feminists or secular activists.
Jean-Pierre Robin: “Woke capitalism divides America and destabilizes the European social model”
Published on 10 April 2023
For the first time since his election to the White House in November 2020, President Joe Biden used his veto power on March 20, 2023.
Dungeons and Dragons: the woke and inclusive turn of the lord of role-playing games
Published on 10 April 2023
Accused of perpetuating racist and sexist stereotypes, the game created in 1974 is reinventing itself. An operation assumed by its publisher, while the brand enjoys an unprecedented popularity in its history and a spin-off film is released on screens this Wednesday.
Transidentity: improving transition pathways in Corsica
Published on 10 April 2023
On April 12, a conference on transidentity will be organized in Ajaccio. The opportunity to talk about this still taboo subject and the difficulties experienced by people in transition on the island, particularly in terms of medical care.
Who will succeed Daniel Craig? James Bond in the hell of wokeism
Published on 11 April 2023
Who will play the next 007? Should the character's masculinity be toned down? Should his ideas be filtered through current concerns? Questions that fans anxiously await an answer to.
Cahors. Queer and feminist evening with Un Genre de festival
Published on 12 April 2023
The intersecting arts will be in the spotlight at a kind of festival, during a queer and feminist evening, this Thursday at the Docks de Cahors.
Lallab: the Muslim feminist association launches a digital campaign against intra-community violence
Published on 13 April 2023
During this period of Ramadan, the Muslim feminist and anti-racist association Lallab has launched since March 27, a digital campaign to fight against intra-community violence. A way to anonymously free the speech of Muslim women, faced with subjects that are still taboo.
Estelle Szabo, mayor of the North, is the first to make her gender transition in full term
Published on 14 April 2023
Estelle Szabo, mayor of Estevelles in Pas-de-Calais, is the “first” transgender mayor to make this transition official during her term of office.
Does woke capitalism have a future?
Published on 14 April 2023
A trip to the United States is always instructive for a European because it allows us to discover the latest trends that will surely affect our continent. It is perfect when we take the best.
What is behind the crusade against WOKISM?
Published on 14 April 2023
Down with Wokism! This is the latest rhetorical weapon, notably but not only defended by the French right, to denigrate anti-discrimination activists and their potential excesses. The RN has just announced the creation of an association to fight "against the Wokist poison".
Conservative Group Launches Text Alert System for When Companies Go Woke
Published on 14 April 2023
Consumers' Research has previously sent out Woke Alerts for Silicon Valley Bank, Jack Daniels, and BlackRock.
French business resists identity concepts
Published on 15 April 2023
Cancel culture, gender-neutral pronouns… According to an Ifop study for Havas, employees have become familiar with these ideas. Without adhering to them any more.
Bari Weiss: “Sometimes the bullies are teachers, sometimes they are students”
Published on 17 April 2023
Former New York Times columnist tackles free speech, Twitter Files and cancel culture
The mayor who excludes the inclusive
Published on 17 April 2023
Single-sex schools in UK allowed to refuse trans students
Published on 18 April 2023
New guidelines are to allow heads of single-sex schools to not welcome trans children or call them by the pronoun of their choice.
Fight against inclusive writing: Gilles Platret's new crusade
Published on 19 April 2023
The mayor of Chalon-sur-Saône has just adopted a resolution banning the use of inclusive writing in all official acts of his town hall. The elected representative of Les Républicains wants, through this symbolic decision, to fight against what he considers to be "ideological manipulation".
Education and gender identity: Florida tightens the screws in public schools
Published on 20 April 2023
The Florida Department of Education on Wednesday banned the teaching of gender theory in kindergarten through 12th grade, a new step in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' war on liberals. The measure reinforces a law passed last year by the state legislature that only covered the youngest students, up to first grade.
Feelings of aggression among teachers are increasing
Published on 20 April 2023
According to the annual barometer of the Autonome de solidarité laïque, an association which offers advice and legal protection to teachers, teachers feel increasingly attacked in the context of their work, mainly by students and their families.
Antiracism: against politicized medicine, by Dr. Michel Tibayrenc
Published on 23 April 2023
Doctor of medicine, Michel Tibayrenc is concerned about the end of the consideration, in the United States, of the parameter "race-ethnicity" in any medical approach whatsoever.
Roger-Pol Droit and Monique Atlan: “There is a fragility of democracy linked to speech”
Published on 21 April 2023
Wokism, social networks, moralization of language… The philosopher and the journalist alert us to the violence and loss of meaning of our words.
This woke catechism which supplanted left-wing ideals within NUPES
Published on 22 April 2023
François Pupponi publishes “The Left in Perdition LFI, EELV, NUPES… The Great Drift” published by Editions du Cerf. Wokist, indigenous, separatist, communitarian, neo-feminist, decolonialist… Where is the neo-left going? François Pupponi looks at the drift of this French left that is returning to its worst errors, trampling on institutions and dreaming of a great night.
Wokism: RN MEP Jean-Paul Garraud denounces a conference on the “racist legacy of language” at the European Parliament
Published on 24 April 2023
On Friday, April 21, RN MEP Jean-Paul Garraud denounced the holding of a conference on “the racist legacy of language” at the European Parliament.
"Libération had me censored because I denounce cancel culture": accused by the daily, David L'Épée defends himself
Published on 24 April 2023
David L'Épée, a contributor to several issues of our magazine, was recently the subject of a damning article by Libération, which describes him as a "fellow traveler of many anti-Semites". We give the floor to the defense, which has announced that it will file a complaint.
“Black” Cleopatra? The opposition of two identitarianisms, by Omar Youssef Souleimane
Published on 24 April 2023
The choice of a black actress in a Netflix docudrama is causing a scandal in Egypt, which is denouncing Afrocentrism. Two visions of identity are opposed, in defiance of historical knowledge…
Brice Couturier and Erell Thevenon-Poullenec: "The French business model is being hit hard by woke ideology"
Published on 24 April 2023
In L'Entreprise face aux plaintes identitaires (PUF), the essayists explain the permeability of French companies to woke ideology and propose levers for concrete actions to protect against it.
Nicolas Baverez: “The great deconstruction of education”
Published on 24 April 2023
The Council of Elders of Secularism is being diverted to be transformed into a communication instrument of Minister Pap Ndiaye, in the service of the dissemination of wokism.
Dora Moutot: Transgenderism, “a completely crazy change in society”
Published on 25 April 2023
Because of her resolutely feminist activism, journalist Dora Moutot has become a prime target for the transactivist community. For several months, she has been subjected to mass online harassment. She explains to Front Populaire the deep reasons for this hunt for those who dare to oppose the doxa of gender fluidity.
Jean-Louis Bianco: “Secularism is invoked as a magic potion to solve all problems”
Published on 25 April 2023
Jean-Louis Bianco, former president of the Observatory of Secularism, offers a brief overview of secularism. We should not expect everything from it, he warns, while emphasizing the importance of grassroots initiatives.
Disney files lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
Published on 26 April 2023
The potential White House candidate ended the company's special status in his state as part of his fight against "wokeism."
Vincent Coussedière: What values should be used to fight back against wokism?
Published on 26 April 2023
Vincent Coussedière, philosopher and essayist, spoke at the colloquium on wokeism organized by the Identity and Democracy Foundation of the European Parliament (ID) on April 21 in Paris. He agreed to let us publish the text of his speech.
“Woke” concert cancelled at Fourvière: “it’s a bit of censorship”
Published on 27 April 2023
The concert that was to be held on the roof of the Fourvière Basilica on Thursday, April 27, has been cancelled, following a pressure campaign orchestrated by the far right.
Education Minister Pap Ndiaye has "complacencies with wokism" according to Eric Ciotti
Published on 27 April 2023
Education Minister Pap Ndiaye has "complacencies with wokism" according to Eric Ciotti
Beigbeder threatened, Rouillan applauded: the madness of the era summed up in Bordeaux, by Abnousse Shalmani
Published on 27 April 2023
The novelist had to go to his signing session under protection, after threatening neo-feminist collages. The co-founder of Action Directe gave a highly applauded lecture at the university.
Podcast: Rokhaya Diallo questions the political dimensions of food, at Louie Media
Published on 27 April 2023
For “Dans le ventre”, Zazie Tavitian welcomes the feminist and anti-racist author for a promising but too short discussion on the links between food and colonization.
Disney-Ron DeSantis: The Right's Battle Against "Wokism"
Published on 27 April 2023
This Wednesday, Disney filed a complaint against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The latest act in a new American political-judicial drama, born of the clash between conservatives and progressives.
Libération attacks David L'Épée: he responds!
Published on 27 April 2023
David L'Épée is an author, journalist, contributor to the magazine Éléments… and former traveling companion of a myriad of anti-Semites, according to Libé! David L'Épée responds to his accusers.
GPT Chat: “woke” filters, neutral or trainable artificial intelligence?
Published on 28 April 2023
AI, between myth and revolution. In a quest for neutrality, AIs are trained with assumed filters. A controversial method, because it would make them politicized. The rest of our investigation into Chat GPT and artificial intelligence, to be found every day on Challenges.fr and in your magazine.
"I didn't believe in the existence of wokeness!": Frédéric Beigbeder makes a strange mea-culpa on CNews
Published on 29 April 2023
Guest of Pascal Praud, the writer, accused of sexism for his book Confessions of a Slightly Outdated Heterosexual, returned to some of his preconceptions.
The posthumous lynching of Mahé de la Bourdonnais
Published on 29 April 2023
The Reconquest of Reunion Federation strongly condemns the plan of the Mayor of Saint Denis de la Réunion to remove the statue of Mahé de la Bourdonnais from the eponymous square.
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