Remember: every summer it was the same story. Sitting in the kitchen, working on your multiplication tables or reviewing your chords… Instrument of torture for some, moment of pleasure for othersit is precisely to the holiday notebooks that we owe these childhood memories as divisive as they are immutable.
This year several publishing houses are launching their own version of the cult object. The turning point? The theme on which one’s knowledge is strengthened is… feminism. Overview.
Most Wanted: “Feminist Activity Book”
Published by Hugo Image on May 5, “The book of feminist activities and other politically incorrect games” by Sabrina Erin Gin and Mathilde (creators of @olympereve, @lesbaratin.eurs and co-founder of @potiches.media) is a condensed with punchy humor and provenance information. There are 80 exercises and games to test your knowledge of history, love, math, science, languages, pop culture… all through a resolutely feminist prism. The notebook is also dotted with focus files on various social debates: “Why, when one is an activist, would bare breasts be extremist? “, “Are straight cisgender white men the new discriminated against? (spoiler: the answer is no). As a bonus, many useful resources, such as the Violentometer, a bibliography of essential feminist works, a glossary, testimonials or even a diagram for understanding the concept of systemic discrimination. A real gold mine!
The funniest: “On vacation, Simone! »
Titiou Lecoq, Charline Vanhoenacker and Zoé Thouron deliver a perfect pastiche of the classic holiday notebook, to find May 10 at the Denoël editions. It contains all the subjects taught at school: grammar, health, history, geometry… scrutinized by the sharp pen of the authors and by Zoé Thouron’s powerfully entertaining drawing. In Civic Education, for example, we correct the complaint of the NotSuperCop officer, who took a woman’s complaint of sexual assault and did her job poorly.
The good student that you are (or not) is invited to underline in the text, in blue, ” doubts about the morality of the victim “, in orange, “ question the seriousness of the facts » and in red « failure to ascertain the defendant “. In svt we learn to draw a clitoris by connecting the dots in numerical order. In mathematics, we calculate the difference in salary between Gwendoline and her spouse. Many ultra-pedagogical exercises, suitable for all levels, which make it the ideal gift for those who have urgently need a remedial lesson.
Most intergenerational(s): Sorocity
Feminist education has no age! And Sorocity got it right. The feminist and participatory newsletter is publishing its holiday notebook for the third consecutive year, to be discovered in the Les Insolentes editions, at Hachette Pratique. Twist: with this new edition, not one but two notebooks will be available in the library. One for the grown-ups, soberly titled ” Feminist holiday notebook » and one for the little ones, under the name of « Holiday notebook included “. The junior version offers so ” learn, read and draw without sexism or clichés », from 7 years old, while the adult version invites you to use your imagination to think of a desirable future. “What would a city without gender look like? we ask ourselves, for example. The answer, May 17 in bookstores.
Source: Madmoizelle
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