OUT d’or” visibility awards, founding the French association for LGBTI journalists (AJL) through to her travels in the US researching representation of LGBTI issues in the media.The book is also a celebration of all things lesbian in a country where “ça ne se fait pas” (it’s not the done thing).“We’re often presented as kind of a nightmare, a calamity, as if you wouldn’t want to be a lesbian,” laughs Coffin.She believes it’s also “very important to say being a lesbian is a kind of a joy, a very positive way of being in the world”.The book’s title seeks to reclaim the very notion of genius, which had always been presented as a masculine concept.“All my childhood, my teenage years, I used to think only men could be geniuses [because] I was.