12 p.m. - Lesbian and feminist movements: what is the current state of affairs between the two?
Discussion and debate with Natacha Chetcuti and Claire Michard, who co-edited Lesbianisme/féminisme : histoires politiques (Lesbianism/Feminism: Political Herstories), 2003, based on the 3rd internatioanl French-language feminist research symposium, held in 2002.
2 p.m. - Women and prevention
With the participation of Sida Info Service, and other organisations.
Must see: the moving documentary by Jacqui North, a portrait her friend Chrissy, who has Aids.
In terms of health care and prevention, lesbians in France are often misinformed or they face a worrying lack of information. In addition to being entirely invisible in health-information brochures and documents, they often see their doctors, particularly their gynecologists, much less than their straight counterparts, and have less testing done. It is difficult, in these conditions, to detect cancer, hepatitis, STDs, etc.
Arame Mbodje, reference-doctor with Aids Info Service, will provide medical advice and information, while Élise Bourgeois-Fisson, from the Lavender Menace group at Act Up, and a member of the Lille-based Pink Flamingos will present their prevention work aimed at lesbians.
4 p.m. - Meet Florence Montreynaud
A meeting with Florence Montreynaud, co-founder of the Chiennes de garde (She-Wolves) and La Meute (the Pack), after the film What Are We Doing Tonight? by the Belgian director Marie Vermeiren, in which a group of women in Bruxelles take direct action against an omnipresent (but not omnipotent) enemy: sexist advertising.
6 p.m. - Trans and lesbians, What can we do for each other?
This year’s films on this topic are No Dumb Questions, by Melissa Regan, and Give or Take an Inch, by Lee Friedlander.
Like lesbians, trans-gendered people reject or query their biological gender and/or how they were raised. Whatever our birth gender and however we were raised, we can self-identify as female, male, both or neither. How can trans-gendered and/or lesbian queries and analyses of the notion of gender enrich each other?
The discussion will be chaired by two Cineffable organisers, including Dominique Place, co-chair of Caritig, the Centre for Aide, Research and Information about Trans-sexuality and Gender identity.