The new words around the genre: how to navigate?

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Marie Zafimehy and Aline Laurent-Mayard.

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By: Pascal Paradou

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How to understand why your brother calls himself transgender?

Understand what words like “agenre”, “pansexuality”, “transparency”, cisgender ”,“ fluid ”,“ demisexual ”,“ LGBTQ + ”mean… In short, understand gender and all the subjects that revolve around it ...

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- Marie Zafimehy

graduated from Sciences Po's School of Journalism and holds a master's degree in Gender Studies from Linköping University in Sweden.

She works for RTL.  

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, freelance journalist, has collaborated with Le Monde, Les Inrocks, Slate… She has created “I like that” which reports on pop culture with a queer and intersectional perspective. 

Both wrote "

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With the intervention of 

transgender artist and Canadian activist. 

Interview by

The column "Elsewhere" takes us to Iceland with 

director of the

The Solveig Anspach Prize was created in 2016 as a tribute to director Solveig Anspach.

This prize was created to reward a young director of short films.

In the first year, we only gave out one prize.

But, for 2 years, two directors have been rewarded: one for a short film in French (which is invited to Iceland in January 2022) and one for a short film in Icelandic. 

Applications can be sent until October 30, 2021, 11:00 p.m.

The rules and the registration form can be found here:

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