What is ecofeminism?
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20 minutes
Oppression of women and destruction of the environment, same struggle?
A priori, it does not follow.
And yet.
Since the 1970s and the creation of the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF) until today, international women's rights day, environmental struggles have gradually rallied to the struggles of activists for gender equality. .
"The idea of combining these two fights was above all to gain in efficiency, to work on patriarchal systems of oppression", explains Solène Ducretot.
Journalist and co-founder of the collective Les engraineuses, in 2019 she launched the eco-
feminist
festival “Après la Rain”, to “take action” as she explains in the associated and eponymous book
Après la forêt, horizons feministes
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"We must not forget that women are the first victims of all crises, whatever they are," recalls the activist.
Women more exposed to environmental degradation
"Neither women nor the land are territories of conquest".
It is with conviction that the “Mujeres Creando” - a Bolivian anarchist feminist group - chanted this slogan loud and clear in the first demonstrations against poverty in the early 2000s in Bolivia.
Since then, new messages have flourished, especially during climate marches, such as “eat my pussy, not the planet”, or “pubis and forests, let's stop shaving everything”.
A poetic way of recalling a harsh reality: during natural disasters, the risk of death is greater for women, according to the latest figures from Unesco.
Likewise, the latter are more vulnerable to toxic and polluting products, because they are more affected by poverty than men.
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