The house has half a dozen rooms, including three consultation rooms and a multipurpose room. It brings together health professionals, marriage counselors and even a lawyer so that those who come knocking on the door, in stress and in distress, save back and forth between hospitals, clinics, psychologists and police stations.
The Maison des femmes de Saint-Denis, in the 93, is located a stone’s throw from the Delafontaine hospital. Invited to testify in comics about what is happening there, Nicolas Wild has multiplied the meetings. With those who work and those who find listening and care there.
Like the house, his book becomes the place where personal stories of pain, misfortune, hope and comfort are told. Excisions and forced marriages, violence within the couple. How to deal with it and come to the surface. Their names are Naelia, Amou, Charlaine, Sophie. To support them, to help them rebuild, they can count on Doctor Ghada Hatem and his team. Nicolas Wild arrived on tiptoe. He knew how to be discreet.
“When I started this project, I did not expect so many testimonials that are so strong, different and gripping. I first met the nursing staff, whom I asked to convey to the women my wish. to hear them tell their stories. “
Comics make it possible to say without exposing, to reveal these women without touching their privacy and their modesty. Speech frees. The drawing gives body to journeys and experiences that it would be difficult to imagine.
At the Women’s House, by Nicolas Wild, published by Delcourt.
Another comic strip of reality, Whistleblowers, by Flore Talamon and Bruno Loth, paints a portrait of a dozen people who, in France, once denounced intolerable situations: companies that knowingly pollute, corruption pacts with politicians, this happening in slaughterhouses, abuse of corporate assets and embezzlement of public funds. Where we understand that we do not become a whistleblower by vocation or political choice, but because we find ourselves one day confronted with behavior contrary to the general interest.
Whistleblowers, published by Delcourt editions.
In the Asian department, the recommendation of the week is Hong Kong, fallen city. The book brings together and contextualizes the images and stories of designer Kwong-Shing Lau. Comics put at the service of the democratic camp.
Hong Kong, fallen city, published by Rue de l’Eglise.