On 11 May 2020, France started easing its restrictions following a first national lockdown. To avoid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, a host of rules were put in place. One of them was that group meetings larger than 10 were prohibited. Despite these restrictions, thousands of individuals came out in the streets across the nation …

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In her seminal book, The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir states that ‘one is not born a woman, but rather becomes one’. This citation is helpful to understand how the concept of gender is one which is performed and takes shape as it is acted over time, as argued by Judith Butler in Gender Trouble: …

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