The posters are ready and the glue too, not too runny and not too thick either. That evening, in the streets of Paris, we are getting ready to stick along the entire route of the march to denounce violence against women, which will leave Saturday, November 20 at 2 p.m. from Place de la République at the call in particular of the collective #NousToutes.
Among the twenty volunteers, surprise, a young man, for whom this is the first collage. Erwan, 25, came with his sister, who spotted the call from #WeAll on Instagram. “ It’s a huge fed up, a feeling that we absolutely do not advance ”, she laments. “ There aren’t enough guys doing it and realizing it, complete his brother. It’s everyone’s cause, in fact! ”
Groups of three or four disperse. The nocturnal collage is organized. A 23-year-old young woman is leading the way. Marylie Breuil is one of the new faces of the collective. ” Go sticking out in the street at night, when you’re women, she explains, it’s something huge because when you’re a woman, you don’t dare or you are afraid in the public space. Putting up posters is a way to reclaim our place. ” A political science student from Avignon, it was after having suffered violence herself that Marylie became an activist. You touch something that moves with your fingertips, she indicates. We feel that it makes things happen. ”
Just five or six years ago, there was very little talk about sexual violence. The use of the word feminicide, which before simply did not exist, was taken into account in society and gradually emerged in the media. And now the President of the Republic uses it. ”
The collective is demanding a billion euros to act against this violence. And at their level, young activists hope for an awareness of gender-based violence in everyday life. I went out for a walk home and I was hissed, thus testifies Camille, 26 years old. I was called, I was asked for my phone number. Lots of situations like these which are not normal and which do not happen to men … ” All will be in the procession on Saturday. “It shows that we are more and more numerous and that there is hope ”, concludes Camille.