2024-02-10 10:41:00
Imagined by Lucie Duhoux in Tarbes, Couleur Culotte talks regarding the female anatomy, embellished with elegant visuals. During creation, the game needs financial support.
Men and boys, don’t turn the page! One of the ambitions of Couleur Culotte in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) would be for knowledge of female anatomy and the menstrual cycle to no longer be subjects solely reserved for women. Lucie Duhoux, nurse who initiated the project, testifies: “When I did prevention in schools or colleges, the boys were the first to ask questions.” For the professional, who worked for two years as a school nurse in Lithuania, they have a role to play in supporting and accompanying women, by being themselves informed of the problems they encounter.
Lack of information for young girls
However, the project was born from the imagination and concerns of a woman: Lucie was diagnosed in 2017 with endometriosis, a gynecological disease affecting one in 10 women and affecting their personal life. “I suffered from very severe pain which radiated through my legs, it was very debilitating,” explains the 30-year-old young woman. She then put her nursing studies on hold to take care of herself. “That’s when I read a lot regarding the female reproductive system, menstruation; I learned a lot,” she says. She then decides to share her new knowledge, to compensate for an almost institutional lack of information for young people. “For example, the gynecological obstetrics module disappeared from the nursing curriculum in 2009,” laments Lucie.
She then imagined an association, called Lunes Rouges, which would carry out the game project while providing information, education and the promotion of menstrual health. “There is much to be done to strengthen menstrual health, safety and hygiene in schools,” notes Lucie. Lunes Rouges and its creator were, for example, present last Friday January 26 at the Pierre Mendès France school campus in Vic-en-Bigorre, where, at the initiative of the students, seven distributors, for all types of hygienic protection, were installed in the toilets of the three establishments.
How do we play it?
Lucie and three of her relatives started thinking regarding a board game, a colorful trivial pursuit full of questions around menstrual health. Currently, the game is under construction, the visual identity has been found, the educational booklet accompanying the board has been written. The illustration drawings, created by art student Eliott Marotel, are of great finesse. Lucie, in addition to her work week, is working to finalize a digital version. “We obviously hope to have the questions and information validated by a scientific council,” she explains. Ultimately, the game will be accessible to everyone from 12 years old, but the ideal for its creator will be to play it accompanied by a mediator, a person like a big sister, a parent, a teacher, in order to strengthen intergenerational links. , but also to constitute a serious and scientific tool used to carry out prevention in schools.
Supported to the tune of €5,000 in its beginnings by institutional partners, Couleur culotte needs more to continue to create itself, and will therefore launch a prize pool (see opposite). Its designer hopes to be able to distribute 50 games to schools in the Hautes-Pyrénées during the year 2024.
Need support
Financially support the launch of the project via helloasso.com/associations/lunes-rouges.
The link to register for pre-ordering the game: ulule.com/couleur-culotte/coming-soon/
To follow the adventure on Instagram: @couleurculotte
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