19.11 / 20:07
lgbt
lesbian
politics
Paris
Feminist’s advocacy of 'lesbian genius' sends France into a frenzy
This interview first featured in the Spotlight on France podcast.Coffin’s autobiographical essay traces her path as a feminist activist: from growing up gay without role models, working as a journalist in mainstream media where LGBTI issues were marginalised, launching France’s “OUT d’or” visibility awards, founding the French association for LGBTI journalists (AJL), co-founding the European Lesbian* conference, donning fake beards to call out patriarchy within La Barbe feminist collective, 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,
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