Christèle Proust

Avec les fortes chaleurs, le harcèlement de rue s'intensifie. En 2025, la plateforme de signalement Umay a enregistré un bond de 30 % au mois de mai. En cette période de canicule, nous avons pris la température auprès des femmes, à Paris. 🎥 @MarinechtmPRO 🎙️ @hombrado_louna

Ever seen women beating wet cloth while singing Gaelic together? That’s called waulking. It’s an old Scottish Highland tradition where they’d soak the wool and beat it by hand to soften and strengthen it. This clip shows exactly how it was done back then, and how Outlander recreated that scene from season 1. If you’re around on 6th June, you can even try it yourself at the Highland Folk Museum. (clip from inveroutlanders)

ÉPINAL EN 1899 🇫🇷 Images colorisées montrant des femmes faisant leur lessive dans la Moselle, filmées par les célèbres frères Lumière. Une autre époque...🧐

A 24 year old man has been found with 4 human embryos in his luggage and arrested in the occupied territory of Northern Cyprus. The embryos came from an IVF clinic operating illegally and were reportedly heading for Mexico. knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/man-ar…

Niki de Saint Phalle: a pioneer of feminist art, who died on May 21, 2002 #ArtMarket #ArtpriceNews #Artprice Read the full article 👉 artprice.com/artprice-news/…

This is 63 year old the_tunegirl, she later in life found analog modular synthesis and loves building every sound live with nothing but Eurorack. She just made her debut at Awakenings. This is what never giving up on passion looks like.

Women Workers in the Canteen at Williams & Williams, Chester (1940s) by Ethel Leontine Gabain, commissioned as a UK WW2 artist #womensart

HORRIFIC: The Taliban recognizes child marriage under new law, permitting the forced marriage of girls as young as 9 years old. @mobbs_mentality: “In Afghanistan, the Taliban has now codified child marriage into law, reducing young girls to property to be controlled, exchanged, and violated under the authority of the state. Afghan girls have been denied education, erased from public life, stripped of basic freedoms, and subjected to a system built on fear, coercion, and authoritarian control. The Taliban’s continued assault on women and girls in Afghanistan is one of the clearest and most systematic examples of sex-based repression in the modern world. And the silence of the international community has become part of the tragedy. Under Taliban rule, girls are handed over through forced and child marriages while so-called “consent” can be inferred from silence. A child’s inability to resist is being redefined as permission. Childhood, dignity, autonomy, and safety are being systematically stripped away from Afghan girls in full view of the world. Let us speak plainly about what this means in practice: state-sanctioned sexual abuse of children. At Independent Women, we refuse to look away. We stand with the women and girls of Afghanistan. Their voices matter. Their freedom matters. And civilized nations must have the moral courage to say clearly that any ideology that normalizes the rape and forced marriage of little girls it is incompatible with Western civilization."

#DérèglementClimatique #Femmes 👉 « Le changement climatique est sexiste", lance Mathilde Henry, de CARE France. "C'est un accélérateur de la mise à risque des femmes, un multiplicateur des risques", et "quand il y a des sécheresses qui frappent, quand on a des récoltes qui échouent, c'est les femmes qui mangent en dernier, et le moins". Actuellement, 47,8 millions de femmes de plus que d'hommes souffrent d'insécurité alimentaire dans le monde, souligne de son côté Action contre la faim pour qui les inégalités de genre sont à la fois "une cause et une conséquence de la faim" »

''Girls are being raped. Not metaphorically. Not as legal shorthand. The day their bodies bleed for the first time, they will be made pregnant by a man four, five, or six times their age, and their small bodies tell the rest. Thirty-two per cent of deaths for Afghan girls aged 15 to 19 are pregnancy-related and Afghanistan's maternal mortality rate is among the world's highest, 521 deaths per 100,000 live births.'' - Writes @NasimiShabnam independent.co.uk/world/child-ma…

RIP Valie Export 🖤 She turned the female body from an object of observation into an act of insurrection. That shift changed European art forever. Valie Export and Maria Lassnig were the first women to represent Austria at the Venice Biennale in 1980. Women’s political bodies have never truly left art spaces since. We will make sure they never do. Valie Export forever. It was an honor.

"Si vous êtes victimes, vous ne valez rien (...) ce sont les agresseurs qui sont protégés", a dénoncé la psychiatre Muriel Salmona (@memoiretrauma), le 7 mai. Elle a fustigé un "système" aux "décisions incompréhensibles", où les "bourreaux sont à tous les niveaux". #DirectAN

We’re too old to be targeted for our eggs. Instead, we are asked to buy them. It is disgraceful that society turned women’s eggs in to a tradeable commodity. And there is no requirement for a criminal records check on those who buy eggs. This all needs overhauling @DHSCgovuk

Le droit au sexe n'existe pas ! Nous sommes libres de vivre une sexualité épanouie mais nous n'avons aucun droit sur le corps des autres! 2 survivantes de la prostitution ont participé à l'écriture d'une lettre ouverte en réponse à la pièce "Arnaud pour Justine"

L’excision pour contrôler leur sexualité et limiter leur accès au plaisir. Le rasage forcé des cheveux en milieu scolaire parce qu’elles seraient une distraction pour les garçons. Le repassage des seins pour ralentir leur puberté et limiter l’exposition au désir masculin. Les mariages forcés et infantiles pour priver les filles de tout consentement. Tout ça, c’est pour les formater à la soumission totale, pour les dresser à devenir des corps dociles. C’est un système esclavagiste qui apprend aux filles que leur corps ne leur appartient pas. À côté de ça, on a une permissivité totale pour les garçons qui n’ont aucune discipline sexuelle. La polygamie est parfois encouragée et valorisée comme un symbole de virilité et d’ego masculin. Tandis que l’infidélité et l’adultère sont banalisés et rarement sanctionnés.

100 years of beauty standards for women Be soft, rounded, and “feminine” (1920s shift away from Victorian curves—but still controlled) Flatten your chest and hips for a boyish silhouette (1920s flapper look) Be slim and youthful—almost androgynous Then swing back to curves—small waist, fuller bust and hips (1930s–40s) Be polished, groomed, and perfectly presented at all times (40s) Be voluptuous—but still cinched and controlled (1950s hourglass ideal) Have a tiny waist, full breasts, and rounded hips Be “naturally” glamorous—but clearly high-maintenance underneath Then drop the curves—be very slim and straight again (1960s) Have long legs, a flat chest, and a waif-like frame Look youthful, almost childlike in shape Be naturally slim (70s) Be fit and toned—but still thin (80s) Be extremely skinny, almost fragile (90s) Be skinny and sexy at the same time (early 2000s) Have big breasts—but stay thin everywhere else (2000s) Have a completely flat stomach (low-rise jeans era) Have visible hip bones (early 2000s trend) Be “slim thick” — tiny waist, big bum, big thighs (2010s) Grow your bum—but don’t gain weight anywhere else Go to the gym—but somehow sculpt a surgically precise body Have curves—but only in socially approved places Look “natural”—while meeting highly unnatural proportions Be strong—not skinny—but still look skinny Have an hourglass figure—even if your natural shape isn’t one Follow body positivity—but still be conventionally attractive Be “thick”—but not actually overweight Then suddenly… be skinny again (2020s shift) Be lean, toned, and “healthy-looking”—but still low body fat Lift weights—but don’t look like you lift weights Eat well—but never look like you restrict Age—but look exactly the same Get work done—but make sure no one can tell Be effortlessly put together at all times Be a man (2026)

Face à l'exploitation sexuelle des mineurs, les pouvoirs publics en Haute-Garonne pensent avoir trouvé la solution. Mais sur le terrain, la situation empire : des disparitions peu suivies, des moyens dérisoires et des réseaux de plus en plus violents charliehebdo.fr/2026/05/societ…

Kristina Rady a-t-elle subi des violences avant sa mort ? C’est @RTLFrance qui nous apprend, 16 ans après sa mort, l’existence d’ecchymoses, de marques bleuâtres sur le visage de Kristina Rady, sur place, au moment de la découverte du corps. J’attends du Parquet de Bordeaux qu’il fasse, enfin, toute la lumière sur la mort de Kristina, l’épouse de Bertrand Cantat, qui était à ce moment là, sous le régime de la libération conditionnelle.

One of the craziest things about this story is that The Flying Bats FC was presented with a Fair Play award in 2022, the same year that a female player had her leg broken in two places by a male player for their team - who was "screaming in pain" - and her teammate was penalized for "transphobia" because she was upset about it.