UNITED : SORORITY AS A HEALING TOOL

United : Sisterhood as a Healing Tool

“Becoming a feminist is not just a rational choice. It is a vital response to traumas so deep that they are lost in the night of our singular stories, as [with] #MeToo. Feminism would not be so powerful if it did not have an unconscious meaning” (Silvia Lippi, Patrice Manglier, 2023).

How to fulfill oneself as a human and an artist? How to promote self-care and collective care in spaces that are far from free of violence and abuse? By placing the concept of sisterhood at the heart of their artistic practice, certain individual and collective initiatives show us that it is possible to re-establish the foundations of solidarity and promote structural change in an entire environment.

Guests

Listening to Flèche Love (CH) means being pierced by a voice, a body, a statement that provokes sensations, emotions, and dazzling images. In her new album Guérison, the Swiss-Algerian artist offers a real vocal therapy around spiritual music in which the voice upsets and soothes. Through these new creations, with their oriental, traditional or baroque influences, Flèche Love wants to share her path to healing and touch hearts and souls in search of renewal and peace with her voice.

Actress and performer on the independent scene as well as in theater, cinema and television, Nina Langensand (CH) is part of the performance group Ultra, which operates from Lucerne and Geneva in plays, performances and installations on the fringes of stability. She co-founded art + care, an initiative launched by caregivers with the aim of developing strategies to reconcile artistic work and care work.

Silvia Lippi (FR) is a psychoanalyst. With a philosophical background, she has a doctorate in psychology and is a hospital psychologist at the Établissement Public de Santé Barthélémy Durand in Étampes. Through her articles and books, she develops a psychoanalysis that is particularly attentive to psychotic experiences and the challenges that come from contemporary minority groups. Her latest work co-written with Patrice Maniglier, Soeurs, Pour une psychanalyse féministe, was published by Editions Seuil in 2023.

Moderation

Pauline Vrolixs (CH) is a journalist and producer in the Society and Culture Department of RTS, where she produces the Podcast Dingue, which deals with mental health issues. Winner of the Swiss Press Award Radio in 2017 and creator of the podcast Epiderme, she specializes in intimate audio stories. She is also a member of Reportage.ch, a French-speaking association supporting podcasts and sound creation, and of Journalista, a network of journalists for equality.

With the support of the City of Geneva.