March 8: the new feminist figures who inspire us
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bell hooks
Bell Hooks is a feminist intellectual activist from the United States. According to her, feminism must be a mass movement and not just a movement emanating from a minority coming from an elitist class. This is also why she had refused to support Hillary Clinton. For her, the goal is not to reach the same level that men have reached socially or professionally, but precisely to eradicate any source of oppression.
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It is also for this reason that according to her, feminism must be a mass movement, including men because it concerns everyone. According to her, we must all work together against the culture of domination because it is the only way out. This feminist is one of the few to have taken into account the plurality of women's experiences.
/Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai rose to prominence at the age of 11, when she accompanied her father to a press conference in Peshawar. She expresses herself there by denouncing the terrorist acts of the Taliban while adopting the pseudonym of Gul Makai, as a precaution. Except that a few months later, his identity arises in the media. Following this, the Pakistani Prime Minister awarded him the National Youth Peace Prize. Unfortunately, on October 9, 2012, a tragic fate awaits her: at the age of 15, Malala is targeted and affected by an attack. Miraculously, she recovered after a four-month convalescence. Following this attack, the young girl leaves her country to live in Birmingham.
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Once her story became publicized, she became a heroine and an icon in the fight for the right to education. Since then, she has been awarded numerous prizes such as the International Children's Prize for Peace, the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom, the Anna Politkovskaya Prize and the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament. On December 10, 1012, Unesco and his country of origin, Pakistan, created the Malala Fund aimed at providing schooling for all the children of the world by 2015. The American weekly, Time, included Malala in the list of the hundred most influential in the world. On October 10, she received the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi. Malala is now aiming for a political career with the aim of changing the future of Pakistan.
/Beyonce
Queen B, we all know her. With her many hits, she made us dance and sing without limits. In recent years, Beyoncé has been giving increasingly engaged speeches in her songs. Remember, her title “Run the World (Girls)” had already set the tone for the feminist and committed artist that she is. “Flawless” posed food for thought on certain principles and values that are instilled in girls from an early age: “Why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage? And don't we teach the same to boys? We raise girls as competitors, not to gain jobs or fulfillment but to get the attention of men.” His album "Lemonade", released in 2016 also takes up this theme but rather in the life of a couple. Indeed, she reveals the infidelity of her husband, Jay-Z, but also that of many men.
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In the clip for the song “Formation“, the artist takes up themes that have marked the United States, such as Hurricane Katrina, which essentially killed black people. The star had made a donation of 7 million dollars to the homeless in the city of Houston, in a non-publicized way. This video also denounces the discrimination suffered by blacks. Beyoncé, through her lyrics, loudly defends her origins and her skin color. This same clip also illustrates the Black Lives Matter movement. The star does not stop there. With Kendrick Lamar, she recorded the title "Freedom", in which they denounce the violence against blacks. Beyoncé is an inspiring artist, who often fights by giving everything she has to defend fundamental causes, including those of women.
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Emma Watson
Discovered in the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter saga, Emma Watson amazed many fans of the Harry Potter saga. But today, the world famous actress is talking about her differently. After graduating from Brown University, she was named a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador. On this occasion, she devotes herself to the HerForShe campaign which advocates gender equality. She defines feminism as: “The belief that men and women should enjoy equal rights and equal opportunities,” during a speech she gave at the UN. That same year, she was awarded the title of "Feminist Personality of the Year" by the NGO Foundation for Women.
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It does not stop there: on his 25th birthday, the weekly Time included him in the ranking of the 100 most influential personalities. In 2016, during a speech at the UN, she spoke about sexual assault on university campuses. In 2018, she said, “What excites me about all of this is making sure it's a global movement. They are women who stand side by side, women and men in all professional fields, because we know that it happens everywhere“. Emma Watson is therefore one of the figures of feminism of our century and we are very proud of it.
/Denis Mukwege
You don't have to be a woman to be a feminist. Fortunately, there are men who are too and who help, all in their own way, women to evolve and be heard. Obstetrician-gynecologist Denis Mukwege is one of them. By founding the Panzi hospital, he has enabled more than 40,000 women victims of extreme violence to get out of it thanks to medical care but also to education, social integration, legal support and other service again. It doesn't stop there: its goal is to end the absence of punishment for those who commit sex crimes.
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"The man who repairs women", received last November the Nobel Peace Prize for having helped thousands of women victims of rape to rebuild themselves both physically and morally. He not only exercised his role as a doctor, but also that of a breeder of international consciousness. He said that: “When you don't fight an evil, it's like a cancer, it spreads in society and destroys the whole society”. His fight for the dignity of women makes him become a real spokesperson for millions of civilians threatened by the abuses of Kivu delinquents and armed groups. His fight earned him to find himself the victim of an attempted attack.
/Chiara Condi
President and founder of Led by Her, Chiara Condi received the Woman of Influence award in 2017. Her foundation supports the entrepreneurial paths of women victims of violence. At 31, Chiara Condi set foot in Harvard with the aim of encouraging victims of domestic violence to rebuild themselves through entrepreneurship. The concept of Led by Her? Training that covers the basics of creating a business with 300 hours of finance and accounting courses, an incentive to structure a business plan and conferences on start-ups, all in collaboration with two schools of business.
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/Rebecca Amsellem
If you know the newsletter “Les Glorieuses, Chroniques d'une féministe”, know that Rebecca Amsellem is the creator. Through these chronicles delivered to her subscribers, she humorously recounts her fight and what she aspires to bring to women. She fights, among other things, for equal pay and the affirmation of women's clothing choices. “The glorious ones are a community. A community that started at 20 and which, 3 years later, has 90,000 subscribers,” says Rebecca.
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She created this concept while she was preparing her thesis defense: "I was preparing my thesis defense, well I was rather procrastinating... I was looking at the libé site, and I came across a crowd of Icelandic women who were demonstrating against the wage inequality. It was a click in me. And then there was the story of Marguerite Durand. In the 19th century, this journalist was sent by Le Figaro to a congress of feminists. The idea was to make fun. And in fact, she was upset. She left Le Figaro and started La Fronde. Basically, "Les Glorieuse" delivers feminist texts to its subscribers, encouraging its subscribers to accept themselves and to fight for their convictions.
/Oprah Winfrey
Oprah is a character that needs no introduction. Present on the media scene for decades, the host and actress continues to climb the ladder. Being a committed feminist, she has done great things to help girls assert themselves and claim who they are. Several prestigious magazines have qualified her several times as the most influential woman in the world, by the American Spectator the most powerful woman in the world by CNN or even the American alpha woman by Moreen Dowd.
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Oprah Winfrey is the first woman to direct her own talk show, which will become the longest in history, with 25 seasons. At the end of this adventure, she created her own television channel, OWN. Inspired by her own journey, she has always fought to achieve her goals. In 2007, she launched the “Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls“, in South Africa. Her organization educates underprivileged girls aged 8 to 12. Thanks to this, the young girls helped today benefit from good studies and integration into the social environment.
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