About a hundred people from the artistic, media, academic and activist circles, including Klô Pelgag, Guillaume Wagner and Les sœurs Boulay, published an open letter on Monday about Safia Nolin. They criticize the media treatment received by the artist since she accused Maripier Morin of sexual harassment last summer.
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In the early days, there was immense radio silence from the mainstream media. We decided not to broach the matter, even though his publications had gone viral on social networks.
, write the signatories of this letter entitled Safia Nolin: what the silence of the media tells us about rape culture (New window).
Subsequently, these same media took hold of the news, often showing a flagrant lack of sensitivity towards it.
, is it underlined in the letter.
The signatories of the letter also criticized the fact that the media did not cover the harassment that Safia Nolin experienced in recent months, and more recently on Zoom.
On Tuesday, singer-songwriter Safia Nolin posted a video on Instagram in which she says she was insulted for three minutes by three anonymous people during a college class she was attending online on the Zoom platform.
[La haine que reçoit Safia Nolin] Also stems from the biased journalistic coverage of this news which, through its omissions and imprudence, has reinforced the cult of beauty and the culture of rape, thus contributing to the uninhibited expression of misogynistic, lesbophobic, grossophobic, classist hatred and racist
, can we also read in the letter.
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