Episode 6 - Amandine Gay - 🇬🇧 - La Poudre

Lauren Bastide

Au micro de Lauren Bastide, écrivaines, artistes, chercheuses et militantes se racontent et prennent le pouls des luttes féministes et antiracistes contemporaines. Depuis 2016, la journaliste reçoit dans La Poudre des femmes artistes, militantes ou politiques pour des conversations intimes et profondes qui ont passionné de millions d’auditeurices. Ces récits, enrichis de documentaires événementiels, de tables rondes, et d’analyses par les plus grandes expertes des luttes pour les droits des femmes, en France et dans le monde, forment un tableau captivant de la société à l’heure de la révolution #MeToo. La Poudre was created by journalist and feminist activist Lauren Bastide, co-founder of Nouvelles Ecoutes studio, to offer women a safe space to express themselves. In a one-hour long, in-depth conversation, inspirational women artists, activists, scientists and politics talk about themselves, their path and struggles, but also about the incredible times we are living for women’s rights. Many episodes of La Poudre have been recorded or dubbed into English. Search for the 🇬🇧 !

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Cet épisode de La Poudre a été publié en français le 9 février 2017. Pour l’écouter, remontez dans les archives ou cliquez ici : 🇫🇷.

In this episode, Amandine Gay recalls her childhood in the countryside and her adoptee status (04:28), talks about the readings that helped her become a woman (12:20), the great significance of adoption in her personal construction (16:40), black women’s representation in the medias and society in general (20:35), how creation allows her to distance herself from her existential wounds (35:25), and what burlesque dancing has added to her life (40:40). She also talks about french edition of bell hooks’ “Ain’t I a women” of which she wrote the foreword, and reads an extract of the book (45:35), fetichization of black teenagers bodies (47:15), her feeling towards Speak up’s warm reception (1:02:40) and the calm she found in Montreal (1:06:01).

Amandine Gay is a director, essayist, activist, and one of the leading figures of afro-feminism in France. While developing her second sociology master’s degree on trans-racial adoption, she directed and produced independently her first documentary, “Speak up” in which she interviewed 24 black women from France and Belgium. After its release in october 2017, “Speak up” was broadcasted for more than 5 weeks in France, and obtained national broadcasts in Canada, Great-Britain, Switzerland and Belgium. Amandine Gay graduated from Sciences-Po Lyon, and studied aboriginal studies in Australia before integrating the Academy of Dramatic Art of Paris in 2008. She ended up behind the camera, and started writing short programs for television as well as a very political blog. She then co-authored a play, “Silence”, before going into exile in Montreal, where she still lives today.

Executive producer : Nouvelles Écoutes

Production and signature tune : Aurore Meyer-Mahieu

English voice-over : Margeaux Lampley

Production assistant : Zisla Tortello

Recording and mixing : L’Arrière Boutique Studio

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