The woman I have agreed to meet for the interview is not Fatima Daas. Fatima Daas is a pseudonym, the name of a fictional character who has written a novel about exactly this Fatima. So our conversation begins with a paradox. How do you talk to a fictional character about their autofictional text? As we shall see, this ambivalence is only the first stage. Daas' book “The Youngest Daughter” is an auto-fictional story about enduring ambivalences, a book that fascinates and torments. A story, it was said after the publication of the original in France in 2020, that has never been there before. “Address me as Fatima Daas, I have become more and more of you in the last few months. I had to be reborn in her skin to write this novel.That's the amazing thing: I can say 'I' in a very intimate, private way without this I being the truth. "

If you wanted to present a hierarchy of marginalization units, which is not a good idea, Daas would be high up. Practicing Muslim women who grew up as the child of Algerian parents in the Parisian banlieue Clichy-sous-Bois, thrown into the sectarian French education system with force, homosexual with a penchant for polyamory. Fatima, the protagonist, loves the unreachable Nina, but also Cassandra and Gabrielle. “I find in one person what the other lacks without knowing what it is,” says the novel. She loves her in secret, because her parents did not miss the fact that Fatima could neither come to terms with the clothes she had brought with her nor with the ideal of becoming a married mother as young as possible. But there is no discussion about it. Between Clichy-sous-Bois and the Parisian nightclub La Java,In which Edith Piaf once performed and today queers sway at theme parties, there are more than fifteen kilometers as the crow flies. The daily trips by bus and train to the Paris university take three tiring hours. Once there, the silence is reversed in the other direction. In the bars that Fatima goes to with her lovers, her belief is taboo. “I don't want anything to do with this feminism,” says Daas. “A feminism that makes it so easy for itself and, for example, reduces the headscarf to an instrument of oppression. Contemporary French feminism is based on too many of these reductions. This black and white world doesn't appeal to me. "The daily trips by bus and train to the Paris university take three tiring hours. Once there, the silence is reversed in the other direction. In the bars that Fatima goes to with her lovers, her belief is taboo. “I don't want anything to do with this feminism,” says Daas. “A feminism that makes it so easy for itself and, for example, reduces the headscarf to an instrument of oppression. Contemporary French feminism is based on too many of these reductions. This black and white world doesn't appeal to me. "The daily trips by bus and train to the Paris university take three tiring hours. Once there, the silence is reversed in the other direction. In the bars that Fatima goes to with her lovers, her belief is taboo. “I don't want anything to do with this feminism,” says Daas. “A feminism that makes it so easy for itself and, for example, reduces the headscarf to an instrument of oppression. Contemporary French feminism is based on too many of these reductions. This black and white world doesn't appeal to me. "who makes it so easy for himself and, for example, reduces the headscarf to an instrument of oppression. Contemporary French feminism is based on too many of these reductions. This black and white world doesn't appeal to me. "who makes it so easy for himself and, for example, reduces the headscarf to an instrument of oppression. Contemporary French feminism is based on too many of these reductions. This black and white world doesn't appeal to me. "