Our Frictions

Our series of narratives and podcasts explore powerful topics. Whether in the form of essay, reportage, testimony or even fiction, our publications are crafted by authors and journalists that express diverse and sometimes diverging points of view. 

No matter the friction, the format, or the author, our promise remains the same: to publish personal stories that help narrate the society around us. 

 

8 frictions

Identity is experienced, built, sometimes undone and may even be transmitted. The paths are numerous, complex, and far from being acquired, identity is often conquered over time. Gender, race, religion, sexual orientation... are all gripping and intimate subjects, we talk about here.

10 episodes

Distraction, vocation, or agony, work occupies our days and our minds - even, or even especially, when it's lacking. Too busy talking about it, we forget to question work. The meaning we attribute to it, the place we give it... An anomaly repaired in this friction.

13 episodes

Meeting someone has never been easier, loving however seems harder than ever. The field of possible stories is vast in the age of the swipe and new relationship codes. If the world seems to have gone mad, there still is hope to continue to love, love again, and maybe, love better.

8 episodes

Demonstrations, uprisings, individual awakenings, changing mores... The movement is constant, difficult to capture, and, at times, terrifying. Far from fantasies, we tell the intimate story of these upheavals.

1 episode

When fiction takes reality as its material, the truth of our societies is laid bare. Fiction based on investigations and testimonies, little stories that tell the big story, to sharpen our vision of the world and the times. In short, the literature of reality.

2 episodes

Mental health has never been such a hot topic. It took a global health crisis and confined populations, but we're finally putting words to our disorders without taboo or fear of judgment. A kind of group therapy on a large-scale.

1 episode

"A Studio On The Atlantic" brings together three pioneering universities in creative writing on both sides of the Atlantic: Université Paris 8 in France, the University of Iowa in the USA and UQAM in Quebec. During four years, student-writers from these three universities write and produce literary podcasts

4 episodes

We often think that committing to a cause goes without saying, that it is natural, like an innate gift. For some, this commitment comes after a long journey. For others, it comes after an event in their lives, a specific experience - a turning point, a revelation to oneself and others. NGO leaders tell their stories.

6 episodes