Our desires, our longings | Élan Interculturel | France

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"Yes, we are never completely free." In this episode, five young people share their views on why they consider it important to embrace their sexualities – whether sexual orientations or desires – and break free from the shackles imposed by the outside world.

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Our Families and Us | Élan Interculturel | France

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How are our perceptions of gender constructed? How is the family model transmitted from generation to generation as a model, a perpetuation of gendered traditions, or a safe space?

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Like a strange feeling | Élan Interculturel | France

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"Do you ever feel like a stranger to your gender?" We asked six young people this question. Cis women, cis men, and trans man, they told their own stories and explained the origin of this strange feeling they have (or not) with their gender identities.

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Beyond appearances | Élan Interculturel | France

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Let's talk about our relationship to appearances. In this gendered society are imposed multiple social norms associated with masculine and feminine. Is it necessary to be beautiful? Make-up, clothing, hair length… can we do what we want without being judged?

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The importance of gaze | MOH | Italy

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A woman talks about how she became self-conscious about feminism. There are things that became unbearable: nude female bodies everywhere, females represented as sensual, beautiful, etc. Another woman talks about how important education is and how people should act to educate the “gaze” in schools.

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Gender preconception | MOH | Italy

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Speaking about female and male gaze, a woman speaks about her father, who is a real male chauvinist. Maybe both are forced into preconceptions, settings, of what a man should be and what a woman should be. Can a woman have a male gaze on artworks?

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The burden of the female gender | MOH | Italy

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A self-representation as a tightrope walker, as a woman who finds all her strength to deal with a lot of difficulties, to keep the balance and be free. Another woman depicts herself without any gaze from the outside: a mix of thoughts and words in a street.

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It’s me | MOH | Italy

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Scattered thoughts, for a deconstructed, untidy self-portrait, with one precise fear. “I could not live if I did not believe that imagination can create new realities”. A happy gaze that can make other people feel comfortable and welcome.

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My self-portrait | MOH | Italy

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Three people describe their self-portraits and how they would look if no one was watching. One looks at the future, another narrates him-herself as a hedgehog with a tie, and another woman who has fear of the time passing by.

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