In the seventeenth century, the Académie française ruled that the masculine prevails, pared down the dictionary and wrote gendered relations of power into the heart of the language. Three centuries later, a collective of artists invents languages in which nothing is gendered any more, and rewrites the stories with them.

Illustration : Marco Chaussebourg (insta : @marco.chaussebourg)

Crédits typographiques : Garabosse dessinée par les élèves de l’U+270D EESAB Rennes ; Adelphe dessinée par Eugénie Bidaut ; Unormative Fraktur dessinée par Léna Salabert-Triby, Laura Conant, d’après Peter Wiegel

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Farewell, the Frenx Academix

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72 days of silence

She calls her mother in Iran for Norouz. The line is dead. Bombs are falling.

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From green to red, a sign on every cage. Who is watching whom, at the zoo?

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