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La Barbe

La Barbe is a French feminist direct action group that crashes high-level meetings wearing beards to make visible women's absence from the places where important decisions are made in France

May 2012

  • Cannes festival poster Marilyn Monroe

    Men of the Cannes film festival, keep defending those masculine values

    La Barbe and signatories

    Open letter from La Barbe: Women may adorn the awards ceremony and prettify the posters, but, mon dieu, don't let them behind the camera

June 2011

  • French feminism is back – with beards

    La Barbe

    La Barbe collective: Spurred on by the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, our collective is taking direct action to challenge sexism in French society

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