• The collective of feminist collages Bordeaux carried out an action on the monument to the Girondins during the night from Friday to Saturday.

  • The names of the 125 femicide victims have been pasted on the building to honor their memory.

  • The collective has been creating wild collages of slogans against gender-based and sexual violence since 2019, choosing high-traffic places to engage the public.

This is the second time that the monument to the Girondins has been chosen by the collective of feminist collages Bordeaux, after March 8, to display the names of the victims of feminicides there. In the night from Friday to Saturday, the Bordeaux team to paste the first names of the 125 victims of the year 2021 "to give visibility to this terrible toll", explains Mariette, activist within the collective launched in 2019 and who defends the rights of gender minorities.

The monument to the Girondins, erected between 1894 and 1902 in homage to the Girondins deputies killed during the Terror, was lined with the first names of 114 victims of femicide by spouse.

The collective recalls in its press release that in France "a woman dies every two or three days under the blows of her companion or ex-companion".

They also wanted to display the names of the seven transgender people and the four sex workers who were killed in 2021. "Their invisibility is even more marked, even to find them is difficult", points Mariette.

In some cases there is the anonymous mention, because it was not possible to identify the victim.

Fight against gender-based and sexual violence

Some 400 people have registered with the collective and around a hundred are actively involved, making wild collages.

Women, trans and non-binary people.

Members of the collective are used to submitting to identity checks and having to take off their slogans if they meet the police.

Some groups have already found themselves in police custody.

The slogans stuck in busy places aim to challenge gender-based and sexual violence, sometimes bouncing off the news.

"We refuse slogans and transphobic, putophobic, racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and validist slogans" (presenting people with disabilities as invalid), said the press release.

Mariette is critical of the actions of public authorities against gender-based and sexual violence.

"This word which is released, if it is not heard, it has no interest," she believes.

It is even worse, it is the double penalty because it is already difficult (to speak) and we will file a complaint so that it is swept away with the back of the hand.

It is after the people are dead that we think we could have done something.

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If the collective is apolitical and keeps away from any political representative or party, it carries messages of political significance such as "Stop Islamophobia", "very apropos this year", points out Mariette.

"We will continue to fight to bring down this patriarchal system which kills people every day and which makes these deaths invisible in addition," she concludes.

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  • Violence against women

  • Sexual violence

  • Feminicide

  • Aquitaine

  • Bordeaux

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