Tenderness & Freedom
In France, fortune-tellers are consulted by stock market investors, lawyers, and TGV engineers. And presidents
Model, porn actress, astrologer. It was with her that the French president consulted on decisions
One in three French people look to the sky for information about the future.
This is the blood that hospitals don’t like
Why isn’t there a reimbursement for sanitary pads for female hospital patients? Once again we come to a situation where a woman has to manage somehow. Interview with psychologist Katarzyna Bieńkowska* and psychiatrist Sebastian Koterwa
Good Body. Women are still ashamed of their bellies, unshaven legs and the fact that they have no erotic life ‘You’re too fat’, ‘How do you walk?’, ‘Pull your belly in’. It’s a voice from years ago, we all have it in our heads
‘I hear a lot of apologising for unshaven legs, armpits, bikinis, but also explaining, for example, the lack of an erotic life’. A conversation with Kamila Raczynska-Chomyn*, menstrual and sexuality educator, doula and massage therapist, and author of the 2022 ‘Good Body’ calendar.
‘Bringing receipts for sanitary pads, explaining buying tampons – that’s also violence’
‘I know of cases of women who not only had to ask for money for sanitary pads, but often had access to them conditioned on them having sex with their partner’. Interview with Joanna Piotrowska from the Feminoteka Foundation
French women are fed up with conservatism in sex. ‘Penetration is a form of male control over women’
No one tells us how to make love differently. Nobody gives us advice or shows us what and where to put in differently, where to lick or press
