I don’t read books by men anymore, I don’t watch their movies, I don’t listen to their music.” Erase them from our minds, from our pictures, from our representation. “It’s not enough to help one another, we have to erase them.
In media interviews after the publication of her book, Coffin urges women to completely boycott men, saying: She taught journalistic writing for eight years at the Catholic University of Paris, but so virulent has been the reaction to her book that her teaching contract was not renewed. Lesbos was home of the songwriter Sappho, some of whose surviving poems speak about love between women.Ĭoffin, a lesbian herself, is co-founder of the French Association of LGBT Journalists.
Reminiscent of the 1905 science fiction story Sultana’s Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, the call comes from Alice Coffin, whose debut book Le Génie Lesbien (the lesbian spirit) has created a virtual storm in France. Women who identify as feminists have burnt their bras, declined to shave their body hair, accused prominent male attackers online – and now one is asking for a complete boycott of men. There is a new controversy raging in the city of love.
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