Forum with Axelle Jah Njiké, Élodie Font and Wendy Delorme, moderated by Anne-Laure Pineau, as part of the Les Créatives Festival, on November 22, 2024.
Intimate, feminist, political, desire has become a field of personal and collective reinvention. To desire is to experience change, to explode patriarchal norms, to question roles and fantasized representations, to explore new ways of expressing one's autonomy, of asserting oneself, and ultimately of finding oneself.
Guests
Designated by Le Monde as one of the new faces of feminism, Axelle Jah Njiké (FR/CA) is an Afro-European author, podcaster, playwright, documentary filmmaker, and content creator. Her work explores transmission and addresses questions related to intimacy, feminism, and identity. Her first book, Journal intime d’une féministe (noire), was published in March 2022 (Ed. Au Diable Vauvert). Her podcasts focus on the experiences of Afro-descendant women from both an intimate and collective point of view: Me My sexe and I; The girl on the couch; I'm black and I don't like Beyoncé. Axelle Jah Njiké took part in the collective works Volcaniques, une anthologie du plaisir (Ed. Mémoire d'encrier, 2015) and Nos amours radicales (Ed. Les insolentes, 2021).
Élodie Font (FR) is an author, documentary filmmaker and journalist, specializing in LGBT+ issues. She has worked for various media: Arte, France Inter, France Culture, Nova. In 2017, she produced the podcast Coming in on accepting one's lesbianism. It won the Out d'or for best documentary and was adapted into a comic strip. Published in 2021 by Editions Payot, it sold nearly 20,000 copies. À nos désirs published by Revue La Déferlante is her first essay.
Wendy Delorme (FR) is a novelist, her first novel published in 2007 Quatrième Génération (Ed. Grasset) documents queer subcultures between Paris and San Francisco in the early 2000s. The most recent, Viendra le temps du feu (Cambourakis, 2021), and Le chant de la rivière (Cambourakis, 2024) weave the voices and memories of queer loves of the past with the hope of another possible world. She is part of RER Q (writing and textual transport collective), participating among other collective publications in the book Lettres aux jeunes poétesses (L’Arche, 2021).
Moderation
Anne-Laure Pineau (FR) is a freelance journalist, member of the Youpress collective and member of the AJL (Association of LGBTI journalists). As a member of the editorial board of La Déferlante, she works from a feminist perspective and has collaborated on the major projects Zero Impunity (on rape as a weapon of war) and Femmes à abattre (on political feminicides).
With the support of the City of Geneva and in partnership with the Librairie Nouvelles Pages.
