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Petit manuel critique d’éducation aux médias
Entretiens, retours d’expériences et analyses pour une lecture critique de la société et repenser la fabrique même de l’information. Coécrit par un collectif de journalistes et un collectif de chercheuses, ce livre met en avant les pratiques collectives et considère qu’il faut donner la parole à tout le monde.
Cet article se veut un résumé de ce qui m’a marqué dans le Petit manuel critique d’éducation aux médias. Il n’est pas exhaustif et n’a pas vocation à l’être. Le Petit manuel critique d’éducation aux médias cherche à montrer ce que La Friche pratique et voudrait promouvoir, dans un contexte où 88% des Français·es sont…
Comment écrire les mouvements sociaux ?
The goal of my recent anthology book “No Pasaran: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis” was to capture a small sliver of that diversity and to open up what is called antifascism, which will hopefully give us a bit of a vision for what comes next as we move past Trumpism, the alt-right and the white nationalism of decades past. In doing this, the hope was to empower underrepresented voices so that we could get a “people’s history of antifascism,” which is a mission that a lot of histories of radical movements aim for yet fail to achieve.
Le problème du discours antifasciste Les médias de masse ont beaucoup parlé des «antifa», en réponse à une grosse théorie du complot d’extrême-droite. Le problème, c’est que l’antifascisme est devenu un monolithe dans le discours public : des jeunes anarchistes, souvent blancs, habillés pour le black bloc, qui attaquent physiquement des fascistes. L’antifascisme n’avait qu’un…
Holding Still for as Long as Possible
Holding Still explores an unusual love triangle involving Billy, a former teen idol, now an anxiety-ridden agoraphobic; Josh, a shy transgender paramedic who travels the city patching up damaged bodies; and Amy, a fashionable filmmaker coping with her first broken heart. With this extraordinary novel, Whittall gives us startlingly real portraits of three unforgettable characters, and proves herself to be one of our most talented writers.
I love Zoe Whittall and her messy queers. This goes up in my favourites from this author, alongside The Spectacular, and will definitely be in my June 2023 recap.
La fin des monstres
« Je ne suis déjà plus celle que j’étais, mais pas encore celui que je veux devenir. »
En 2020, Tal Madesta entame une transition de genre. En prenant ce chemin qui implique de redéfinir entièrement son rapport à soi, aux autres, au monde social, il va faire l’expérience désolante de la violence transphobe et du deuil. Mais il va aussi découvrir la joie d’aimer autrement et expérimenter avec intensité sa propre liberté. Entre rage et lumière, Tal Madesta livre le récit d’une révolution intime, en même temps qu’un plaidoyer passionné pour l’émancipation des personnes trans.
J’ai l’impression d’avoir enfin trouvé un livre qui explique aussi bien la transidentité aux personnes cis qu’il n’exprime les plus profondes pensées d’une personne trans. Deux regrets peut-être. Le premier c’est l’oubli des personnes non-binaires, celles qui ne passent pas et ne passeront pas ; de même pour l’oubli des personnes qui ne passeront pas…
Lavender House
When you’re a cop in 1952 and your colleagues bust you in a raid on a gay bar, your career options become extremely limited. Former San Francisco Police Inspector Evander Mills’ retirement plan is to drink until his money is gone, then pitch himself into the bay. Until a widow sits down next to Andy at the bar and offers him a private gig—find out what happened to her wife.
Persuaded to take the case, Andy accompanies the widow to Lavender House, the family seat of recently deceased Irene Lamontaine, head of the Lamontaine Soap empire. At this secluded estate, where none of the residents, or the staff, need to hide their identities, Andy finds a bewitching freedom.
He also immediately finds himself a pawn in a family game of old money, subterfuge, and jealousy—and Irene’s death was only the beginning. The gates of Lavender House can’t lock out the real world, and it turns out that not even a soap empire can keep everyone clean.
A delicious story from an new voice in suspense, Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist.
A murder mystery set during the Lavender Scare and gay-bashing in 1950s San Francisco. Sometimes you want a neat little mystery that does exactly what the genre says it’s supposed to do. Sometimes you want it to be super gay. If that is the case and if you don’t mind a few graphic police beatings…
Cultures féminines et féminisme : le soap opera et le nail art
Du roman sentimental aux blogs de nail art en passant par le soap opera, de nombreux médias s’adressent explicitement aux femmes. Tout en véhiculant des normes oppressives, ils ouvrent des espaces de réflexion autour de la féminité et des rapports entre les sexes.
En une phrase: La culture populaire féminine présente des contraintes de genre mais permet de les négocier, entre autres parce qu’on n’y retrouve pas le besoin de capital (culturel, social ou économique) des activités des classes moyennes. Un résumé personnel un peu plus détaillé La distinction de classe de Pierre Bourdieu a évolué : maintenant,…
Jawbone
Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of an abandoned cabin, kidnapped by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?
I labored through this entire book waiting for the payoff. It didn’t pay off. The ending made me so angry, not because it’s anger-inducing but because it’s empty. You’re telling me I went through all these convoluted, « I love hearing the sound of my voice »-type monologues for this? I should have listened to my gut and…
Schuss
Stacey Evans wants only one thing: to be the best alpine ski racer she can be. Everything else—like her sweet and ultra-supportive best friend, and hot-but-vapid girlfriend—is just a bonus. Fresh from a medal at her first Olympics, Stacey knows she can only get better and is firmly focused on the future, and totally not thinking about how she’s kind of a little in love with that sweet, ultra-supportive best friend…
Gemma Archer has had a crush on Stacey from the moment she first saw her, but being her best friend is so amazing that she’s almost managed to push that crush aside. Almost. But even if Gemma finds the courage to tell Stacey how she really feels, there’s a mountain of obstacles to overcome—like the fact that Gemma’s stepmom is Stacey’s coach (awkward) and Gemma will be going away to college in a few months. And most importantly…what if admitting how she feels ruins the best friendship she’s ever had?
I will have forgotten this book in 3 days but had a great time reading it. I do hope the author got paid by atomic. If not, maybe the sponsoring shtick could have been anonymized a bit, because that was A LOT. Also, I don’t think the story would have needed any major changes with…