Extract from "Balance ta bubble" -
Maria Stoian / Massot Editions
In
#Balance ta bubble
(Massot Editions), 62 women chose to draw their experiences of gender-based and sexual violence.
At the initiative, Diane Noomin, author and editor of comics, haunted by a sexual assault suffered at 25 years of a doctor.
Flipping through the pages of this comic brings back to life a little the #MeToo moment, when suddenly thousands of women began to testify about their stories of rape, sexual assault, harassment, sexism.
In #Balance ta bubble (Massot Editions), 62 women chose to draw their experiences, raw, difficult, painful, mingled with childhood nightmares or memories of sentences that remain stuck to the eardrum.
On the initiative, Diane Noomin, author and publisher of comics, paralyzed at 25 by the hand of a doctor on her chest, which left her silent at the time, but marked forever.
Years later, when #MeToo lights up like a keg of powder across the planet, Diane Noomin picks up her phone and keypad and asks dozens of female cartoonists to testify.
“Of all the women I contacted, only one told me that he had never had such an experience,” she recounts.
"Tanks"
Among those who accepted, Lenora Yerkes, who recounts the rapes committed by her brother.
Tulips bloom on the pages, carrying all the words that swarm and colonize his mind.
"We had a good laugh, remember?
»,« I was a brother to you »,« I protected you »,« I loved you ».
Bouquet of thoughts that she will manage to tear off.
Another striking image, that of tanks, under the guise of Marian Henley.
“When I was 19, tanks ran over me.
The rapist, first.
Then the prosecutor.
Defense lawyer.
Until the dismissal, that we won't even bother to tell him.
“I guess they felt I wasn't worth it.
And for good reason… I am only a woman ”.
Warriors
And then there are also all these sexual assaults experienced in the street, in a bar, in the office.
The state of absence, the inability to concentrate on anything and the stress that one feels afterwards, under the pencil of Ebony Flowers.
Relatives who do not support, worse, whose reaction may be worse than rape.
The police officers laughing in their face.
The memories that sometimes haunt the children of victims of domestic violence as well.
Like Avy Jetter, who remembers his pregnant mother being beaten up by her stepfather.
“Beyond language, there are ways to find meaning and its place in this world”.
These words are from Roxane Gay, who signs the preface to the book.
Who tells us how she regained power over her life, after a gang rape, to become the world-renowned novelist and essayist we know.
Because after all, as Miss Lask Gross says in the comic book that opens the book, women are "fucking warriors."
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