N°3
December 2021
In gaze N°3: A PEEP-SHOW DANCER reversing THE MALE GAZE, A DISCREET QUEER ICON, A very modern JEANNE of ARC, A wrestler making jokes about the HARDSHIPS of motherhood...
Essay
Finding my purpose
The testimony of Allie Zenwirth, a young transgender woman who left an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic Jewish community in New York to live, through dance, her truth. —Text: Maud Le Rest. Images : Desmond Picotte.
Icon
Going Underground
A 12-hour phone rendez-vous between the novelist Ann Scott, a discreet queer icon, and the journalist Louise de Ligneris.
Archive
Dani Coyle
October 26, 2020, in front of the Reichstag, in Berlin. The activist and intersex artist Dani Coyle tells usabou t this moment, rallying, where she felt fully happy.
Art Herstory
Abra
We reinterpret a mythical painting by the 17th century painter Artemisia Gentileschi. A story of sisterhood and women who bind together against their tormentor. —Text : Eva Kirilof. Image: Alice Rimsky.
Portfolio
A kaleidoscope of one’s own
Diving into the images of photographer Jessica Gianelli, and her reflections on photography as a tool for collective therapy.
Female legacy
LAURIANNE & CAROLINE
When a family culture is only transmitted orally, how can you make it your own? Journalist Laurianne Melierre explores this question, and her link to Cameroun, in an intimate discussion with her mother. —Images: Bettina Pittaluga.
Portfolio
In Praise of softness
Suffering from a rare degenerative disease that handicaps her, Italian photographer Claudia Amatruda stages her body as the main character of her narrative, and her disease as a secondary one.
Headstrong
Delphine Desane
Portrait of the painter, famous for her portraits of black women, Delphine Desane. As the doors of the art world kept close, she went in through the window. —Text: Mélissa Chidiac. Images: Nasrah Omar.
Gonzo
Wrestling with the patriarchy
Heather Bandenburg is a wrestler and a mom. In this gonzo piece, she tells us about the struggle that goes on in both fields. —Images: Claudia Agati.
Pas de deux
LUCKY STARS
Mathilde Fachan orchestrates a discussion between two witches of two different generations : the astrologer and fortune teller Wutangu and the energeticist and trainer Judith Vieille. —Images : Julia Grandperret.
Love Letter
Lisette Lombé
In each issue, we ask an author to write a love letter to herself. This one, by poet Lisette Lombé, is a powerful ode to rest. —Image: Leila Rose Fanner.
Portfolio
PRIVATE PLEASURE
San Francisco, 1990. Cammie Toloui is a photojournalism student and, three nights a week, a stripper at the “Lust Lady”. She photographs her clients and reverses the “gaze”.
Essay
Comedic Collusion
Confessions of writer Fiona Schmidt, who has long used the oppressor's weapon, lowbrow humour, before learning to put humour to use for her sisters in struggle. —Image: Huanhuan Wang.
Feminine Mystique
Nadège Beausson-Diagne
Through three objects that she believes define her identity, the actress and activist tells us three very personal stories. —Image: Zélie Durand.
Open Call
AGEING
Discover the images of the winner of our open call on the theme "ageing". They show the inner storms that go through people with Alzheimer's disease. —Images: Anna Coty Brodsky.
Essay
Tic tac tic tac boom
Immersion in the psychiatric hospital where Alizée Pichot makes sisterly connections. She testifies to the overpowering love that drives her to live for herself. —Images : Tereza Zelenkova & Dimitra Dede.
Mode
Power dressing
Under the eye of the photographer Cédrine Scheidig, the stylist Fatoumata Guirassy becomes the peaceful warrior who runs in our dreams.
Flash Forward
Hands off
In this unpublished short story, we travel in time, in 2026, where we can no longer say "we can no longer say anything". —Text: Laure Mi Hyun. Images: Ibticem Larbi.
Personal Pantheon
Oona Doherty
The Irish dancer whose work explores gender, identity and power dynamics shares her personal pantheon of women: from boxer Katie Taylor to her middle school dance teacher.
Carte blanche
Shuo Hao
We gave the Chinese painter carte blanche to illustrate our ideal feminist library, on the theme of eroticism: an excerpt from Eroticism as Power by the American Audre Lorde and a poem by the Chinese Wu Tsao.
