“Down your legs” (3/10): “How were you dressed? - Lan nga soloon? "

Audio 13:30

By: Kpénahi Traoré Follow | Simon Decreuze Follow

Sexual assault is sometimes justified by the clothes the victims wore when they were raped. A systematic guilt of the victims on the pretext that they were dressed provocatively.

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Long before the Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc affair, initiatives were already in place to report sexual assault. One of these initiatives is the exhibition titled “T'oulez dressed how? A concept which was born in the United States but which has been recreated in different countries, including Senegal.

With :

• Awa Cheikh Diouf , director of the Henriette Bathily Women's Museum in Dakar
• Fatou Kiné Diouf , feminist, exhibition curator and one of the initiators of the exhibition “T''ai habillée comment? Lan nga soloon ”in Dakar.

References cited in the episode  :

• The exhibition “What were you wearing? "
• United States: "How were you dressed?" ", The expo that breaks prejudice against rape (ladepeche.fr)

" Bas les pattes " is an original RFI podcast, produced by Simon Decreuze and written by Kpénahi Traoré. He questions the place of women in African societies after the #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc movements.

Musical creation by RFI Instrumental

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