GIV - To be free not to give life

During a day dedicated to the Erasmus+ project "Juliet", the students of the Erasmus+ class are divided into pairs and have to choose 2 workshops from a list of topics and productions that are proposed to them.

In this workshop, only one pair choose to focus on the way feminist movements defend the right to contraception and abortion.

Contraception and abortion are issues of feminist struggle. The appearance of feminists on the public scene in 1970 with the demand for women's "free disposal of their bodies" placed contraception and free abortion at the centre of the controversy and several organisations took up the "women's cause" with different orientations and practices. 

The pair ended their talk with a discussion of feminist movements today, focusing in particular on one of the current figures of feminism in France, Virginie Despentes, who published an opinion piece following the award of the César for Best Director to Roman Polanski, who has been accused of sexual violence against dozens of women.They showed that feminist actions take different forms: demonstrations, sticking slogans on walls, happenings and the importance taken by "activism 2.0" on social networks.

The two pairs create posters on the struggles of feminist movements to defend the right to contraception and abortion around the world and present them to their classmates using their knowledge and questions/answers.