Several hundred people, mostly young women, demonstrated Monday evening in Paris at the call of a coordination of feminist associations, ahead of March 8, displaying their opposition to the patriarchal system, to transphobia, or even their support. to Ukrainian women, noted an AFP journalist.
“Let’s march once morest the capitalist and patriarchal system”, or “to our Ukrainian sisters, solidarity”, might we read on some signs, behind a head banner displaying: ” once morest putophobic, cis, racist, straight, sexist, validist violence “. “Neither Putin nor NATO, no to war,” proclaimed another sign.
Spokesperson for the Feminist Coordination, a collective bringing together some sixty associations at the origin of this demonstration between the Gare d’Austerlitz and the Hôtel de Ville, Lisa, 26, explained that this event had been “designed in complementarity with the demonstration of March 8 for the defense of women’s rights”.
But some participants wanted to stand out from the day of March 8: For Cécile Manchette, from the feminist collective Du pain et des roses, “today’s demonstration represents a more radical and younger vision. We want to express our disagreement with positions that would not be anti-racist and anti-capitalist in the feminist struggle”.
“I came because I find that in recent years, March 8 has taken on a commercial dimension. Everyone tries to recover an electorate or customers under the guise of feminism. It’s quite sad, it prevents me from carrying my demands and to demonstrate. I have a form of disgust for this type of washing feminism”, explained Eurydice Adrien, a 23-year-old student.
For another spokesperson for the collective, Arya Moreni, 29, this march also aimed to “denounce the fact that this five-year term has been a farce with regard to the police management of sexist and sexual violence”.
