Advocacy & Outreach

Madame Rap: The First Media To Amplify The Voices Of Female And LGBTQIA+ Rappers Worldwide “There are no female rappers worth mentioning,” “how can you be a feminist and love rap? It’s the most sexist and homophobic music out there!“… Tired of hearing these recurring stereotypes about women, queer people, and hip hop, I decided […]

For several months from 2016 to 2017, with photographer Erwan Balanant, I accompanied volunteers from ADSF (Acting for Women’s Health) during outreach visits to women in extreme precarity in shantytowns and social housing hotels in Paris and its suburbs. This exhibition traces our encounters with these nameless women, living in tin shacks hidden under the

Through my work and various advocacy and activist commitments, I have always been dedicated to denouncing rape culture, incest, and pedocriminality in French society and culture. In 2021, I published an analysis on Madame Rap of 52 popular songs that glorify pedocriminality and incest. Released between 1952 and 2008, these variety, pop, and rock tracks,

I’ve always been interested in the mechanisms of domination at work in spaces that believe themselves exempt from them, or that we assume are less affected by these forms of violence than others. Because they are presented as legitimate, standardized, and “normal.” For this reason, I decided to work on sexism in international popular music

On December 20, 2013, I staged an individual topless pro-choice action at the Madeleine Church in Paris with the Femen group. This Ukrainian feminist movement founded in 2008 in Kyiv is known for its topless actions. The activists write slogans on their bodies to denounce violence against women and gender inequalities, through sexual exploitation, systemic

Organization of the symposium “Nudity, a Political Weapon?” at the National Assembly, June 18, 2015 On December 17, 2014, feminist activist Éloïse Bouton was found guilty of sexual exhibition by the Paris Court of First Instance. This former Femen member, who had carried out an individual action at La Madeleine church in December 2013 to

Paye Ton Troll – The Tumblr Denouncing Cyberbullying A target of cyberbullies since 2012, I spent years ignoring or blocking them. Then one day, I decided to respond to them and take the opposite approach to these attacks. I began posting these exchanges on my Facebook page and created the Tumblr Paye Ton Troll in

Contre Coups – The Compilation Against Violence Against Women The Contre Coups project brings together 12 female artists who sing against violence against women. Every year in France, 216,000 women aged 18 to 75 are victims of physical and/or sexual violence from their former or current partner, and 86,000 women are victims of rape or

From October 2019 to June 2020, Madame Rap offered initiatives focused on female rappers and issues of gender equality and LGBTQ+ rights in venues across Seine-Saint-Denis. This itinerant residency was organized around several key initiatives: WOMEN-ONLY RAP OPEN MICS These free open mic nights were dedicated to rappers who identify as women, non-binary, or trans.