Promote Quebec researchers
Léa Clermont-Dion is at the helm of a series of major interviews with local researchers in order to highlight subjects that directly concern women. Advancement of the law in matters of sexual assault through the processing of complaints, but also access to abortion, impact of climate change on Inuit peoples and integration of immigrants into society, discussions between the filmmaker and author and her guests are exciting and enriching.
In Scholarly women, on Savoir media, Léa Clermont-Dion also met Sylvie Lévesque, professor of sexology at UQAM, to address the subject of gynecological and obstetrical violence, with all the ethical consequences they engender. We learn, for example, that Sylvie Lévesque has fought for a long time, and continues to do so, for this obstetric violence to be recognized as a reality for women. Consent is also mentioned, because, as the researcher points out, “it is not because you enter a doctor’s office that you give implicit consent to everything”.
Scholarly women
Media information, from March 8
When everything doesn’t work out as planned
Mylène Mackay plays the lead role in The mediator. In the new Canadian radio comedy web series, produced by Isabelle Garneau on an original idea by Marie-Hélène Lebeau-Taschereau in collaboration with Marie-Élène Grégoire, we can follow the daily life of Catherine Fortin, a renowned family mediator, also a speaker and facilitator. But, above all, she is the one that many consider to be the specialist par excellence in benevolent separation in Quebec. Although she advocates to anyone who will listen the notion of “separating together”, Catherine will nevertheless have to manage a very particular file, since it concerns her own couple: despite a public image of transfixed lovers, her partner, Alex, with whom she has been for 20 years and with whom she has two young children, suddenly leaves her. Accompanied by her best friend, Tonya, Catherine will then decide to take revenge… in her own way!
Alongside the excellent Mylène Mackay, let us emphasize that The mediator boasts a high-ranking cast, with Ariane Castellanos (Tonya), Maxime de Cotret (Alex), Anglesh Major, Rosalie Bonenfant, Rebecca Makonnen, Christian Bégin and Guillaume Lambert. A biting and delicious series!
The mediator
Véro.tv from ICI Tou.tv Extra, from March 7
Being an artist and a mother
On the side of Télé-Québec, Hide this belly that I can’t see explores the complex issue of motherhood for women artists, who are also self-employed. Compared to other women, what are the repercussions of motherhood for these artists? What are the effects on their careers? How does their work environment react to the announcement of their pregnancy? For her documentary, director Karyne Lemieux, who is also an actress, followed other artists and mothers, such as Sophie Cadieux and Joanie Poirier, who share with her their different experiences, personal as well as professional and financial.
Hide this belly that I can’t see
Télé-Québec, Wednesday March 6 at 8 p.m.
Also see on Netflix
Head to Italy for Supersex, a series loosely inspired by the life of Rocco Tano, aka Rocco Siffredi, one of the world’s stars of pornography. Premiered at the last Berlinale, it immerses viewers in this excessively misogynistic film industry. But this fiction particularly piques curiosity because it was written and directed by the screenwriter and feminist activist Francesca Manieri, with Matteo Rovere, Francesco Carrozzini and Francesca Mazzoleni, and because it observes the construction of masculinity in the light of desire and power which still govern relations between men and women.
The American platform also offers its subscribers the new show by Hannah Gadsby, who for the occasion welcomes emerging comedians on the stage of Alexandra Palace in London genderqueer for a show full of self-deprecation and incisive wit.
Supersex
Netflix, from March 6
Watch Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda
Netflix, from March 5