Twice a month, a public figure tells us what they're reading. This week: Actress and screenwriter Catherine Souffront, who appeared on the small screen in Lakay Nou (which she is also a co-writer) as well as in the fourth season of L'oeil du cyclone and the youth show L' île Kulucru, which is currently in its third season rotates.
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Bad feminist
“This book really appealed to me just from the title, because I think that the word “feminist” is sometimes used almost like an insult today. The word has lost some of its nobility. We agree that without feminists, women today would not be able to go out at night or vote. I like the idea of giving yourself back the right to be a feminist without putting pressure on yourself to be perfect. […] And that's what Roxane Gay tells us in her book: The Art of Being a Woman. What does it mean to be a woman and a feminist and completely imperfect? It is not true that we are in a world where there is complete equality and that makes us aware of many things. »
Bad feminist
editorial
352 pages
River woman
“Similarly, this book is eaten like hot apple pie. It reads like fiction, like a diary, like a fully accepted confession. It's the story of a woman who is outside the norm, so you could say abnormal, but a woman who says, “I'm not used to being incomplete.” And I found that powerful. This implies that the premise of a woman's life is to allow herself to be complete and whole. And today it is the exception to be a woman and to be holistic, to be assertive and rebellious. And she doesn't claim it because she embodies it through a love that is not linear, not monogamous, but specific to her imagination. I find that it is mind-opening to see a woman who is aware of her contradictions. »
River woman
Leaf seller
252 pages
Mister Big or the glorification of toxic loves
“Once again, this book is a quick read. It's like a slap in the face, but a slap in the face that you want to get because you realize that we watch our films and our series with rose-colored glasses. It is true, the rose-colored glasses, India invites us to keep them, but to realize that we have put them on, we then put them aside every now and then to see the reality. It's about, among other things, the relationship between Carrie and Mister Big in Sex and the City, a cult series that I loved, but it makes us realize that in many cases women need a man to be happy and to improve their social status improve series. […] And as a writer, I think these are questions that need to be asked. »
Mister Big or the glorification of toxic loves
Quebec, America
192 pages