Dominique Alba, Director General of Apur speaks at this conference to address "what 'new' urbanities for women?
In January 2020, V and Cynthia Fleury launched the first edition of the Meetings for the fight against feminicides and gender-based violence.
In 2021, the Rencontres will bring together women on the COVID front, those who are on the front line: workers, survivors, academics, artists and politicians, who are rethinking and building social bonds and common goods in the service of all. Women who call us today more than ever to reclaim our bodies and fully reinvest in private and public spaces as places of struggle, creation and transformation.
This second edition of the Rencontres joins the international One Billion Rising campaign and aims to provide a space for sharing for women who, through their texts, their words and their actions, take hold of feminist struggles in France. An event thought to be joyful, restorative, a source of power to create and encourage each other.
About Eve Ensler and Cynthia Fleury:
- Eve Ensler, now V, playwright and author, happily freed from the name of her incestuous father since writing her memoir “Pardon”. Founder of Vday, Cité de la joie in Congo and One Billion Rising, the world's largest campaign to end violence against all women and girls.
- Cynthia Fleury is full professor of the Humanities and Health Chair of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, holder of the Philosophy Chair at the GHU Paris Psychiatry and Neurosciences Hospital. She is also the author, “Ci-gît l´amer, casser du resentiment” (Ed. Gallimard) is her last work published in 2020.