Twice a month, a public figure tells us what they are reading at the moment. This week: actress and screenwriter Catherine Souffront, who can be seen on the small screen in Lakay Nou (of which she is also co-author), as well as in the fourth season of The eye of the storm and the youth show Kulucru Islandwhich is about to film its third season.
Bad feminist
“From the title, this book really appealed to me because I find that today, the word feminist is used almost as an insult, sometimes. The word has lost some of its nobility. We agree, women today would not be able to go out at night or vote without feminists. I like this idea of giving yourself back the right to be a feminist without putting pressure on yourself to be perfect. […] And that’s what Roxane Gay tells us through her book: the art of being a woman. What does it mean to be a woman and a feminist and completely imperfect? It is not true that we are in a world where full equality exists, and it makes us aware of many things. »
Bad feminist
Editorial
352 pages
River woman
“ In the same vein, this book is eaten like a hot apple turnover. It reads like fiction, like a diary, like a fully accepted confession. It’s the story of a woman who is outside the norm, so one could say abnormal, but a woman who says: “I’m not used to being incomplete.” And I found that powerful. This implies that a woman, her premise of life, is to allow herself to be complete, to be whole. And today, it is the exception to be a woman and whole, to be assertive and to be rebellious. And she does not claim it because she embodies it through a love which is not linear, which is not monogamous, but which is specific to her conception. I find that it opens minds to see a woman who is aware of her contradictions. »
River woman
Leaf seller
252 pages
Mister Big or the glorification of toxic loves
“ Once again, this book is a quick read. It’s like a slap in the face, but a slap that you want to receive because you realize that we watch our films and our series with rose-colored glasses. It’s correct, the rose-colored glasses, India invites us to keep them, but to realize that we have put them on, then, once in a while, to put them aside to see reality. It goes among other things in the relationship between Carrie and Mister Big in Sex and the Citya cult series that I loved, but it makes us realize that women need a man to be happy and improve their social condition in many series. […] And I find, as an author, that these are questions that need to be asked. »
Mister Big or the glorification of toxic loves
Quebec America
192 pages