Please select what you would like included for printing: Copy the text below and then paste that into your favorite email application Pierrette Julia (Julie) Thomas February 13 known to most as Julie and affectionately called Petie in her youth passed away peacefully at her home in Ozark Julie was lovingly raised by James as his own as her mother pursued a doctoral degree in foreign language giving her the unique experience of living in Tennessee One of her fondest memories was spending time with her beloved grandfather After completing her studies at Evangel University and Southwest Missouri State College Julie earned her degree in Secondary Education and was certified to teach K-12 Julie’s personal life was marked by the love she gave to her family friends and the many animals she cared for over the years She married Jim Ratcliffe and had three daughters later marrying David Levins and then Max Thomas having two daughters Julie and her family made their home in Dallas County which became a renowned international business and the third-largest private employer in the county Julie was a passionate animal lover and dedicated her life to caring for animals teaching proper animal care to both pet owners and prospective breeders Her efforts expanded to breeding thoroughbred racehorses and American Quarter Horses Julie was predeceased by her mother Alice Tremain-Bowers; biological father Elsa Goiame-d'Eaubonne; and her beloved daughter Julie is survived by her sisters Jane Dennis (Seymore MO) and Susan Nitzsche and husband David (Blue Springs MO); daughters: Jennie Ratcliffe Haymes and husband David (Springfield MO) Joanne Ratcliffe Lollis and husband Michael (Strafford She is also survived by her grandchildren: Josh Lollis and wife Katie A public graveside service will take place on Friday A celebration of life will follow at Hip Pocket Pizza from 3:00 p.m donations be made to The American Academy for Canine Water Rescue https://k9lifeguards.org or K9s For Warriors at https://k9sforwarriors.org  Julie’s legacy of care and dedication will live on in the lives of the people and animals she touched throughout her lifetime.  Enter your phone number above to have directions sent via text This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply Service map data © OpenStreetMap contributors Here's something for sports and eSport fans... the 95 Kings of Fields tournament returns for a fifth edition at Athletica (formerly CDFAS) in Eaubonne Three days dedicated to celebrating sporting excellence in all its forms inclusion and awareness are the watchwords With the second largest LAN Party in France the 95 Kings of Fields tournament promises an immersive and intense experience Athletica and ArmaTeam are also planning eSport workshops to raise awareness ofeSport among the younger generation and combat sedentary lifestyles visitors can take part in a range of events and talk to eSport professionals on site there's also a ticket for you to support your friends and family.. combining sport and eSport in a celebration of sporting excellence Refer your establishment, click herePromote your event, click here The USOPC high performance center is devoted to giving Team USA athletes and staff the best possible performance support and services during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris in 2024 (Photo by Spencer Barnes/Special for Cronkite News) Sitting in the heart of a residential neighborhood in the town of Eaubonne the performance center recently underwent a $29 million renovation Reigning Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman gets a quick training session at the USOPC high performance center Tuesday before she competes Friday PARIS – Twelve miles north of central Paris sits the small Despite its close proximity to the chaos of the French capital the area is only filled with the sound of wind blowing through the trees and homes fit for quiet living It may not seem like the 2024 Summer Olympics have touched this place but just a 10-minute walk from the train station sits one of the most advanced training facilities the Games have to offer: Team USA’s high performance center The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee partnered with ATHLETICA to create a home base for Team USA in the small suburb Disconnected but easily accessible to the Olympic Village the Team USA HPC has state-of-the-art facilities that allow U.S athletes feel more connected with each other Close to 450 Team USA athletes across 30 Olympics and Paralympics sports will have access to the HPC’s facilities and services 16 Olympic sports will have 300 athletes during the Olympics and 12 sports will have 150 athletes for the Paralympics “We want Team USA athletes (to) have the best opportunity to perform on the field of play,” USOPC Chief of Olympic Sport Finbarr Kirwan said this location in this facility is the embodiment of that.” The idea for the Team USA HPC has been around since 2008 about 60% of USA medalists trained at the HPC made for those Olympics it wasn’t as inclusive as the 2024 version most athletes competed at the IWF Training Hall The 2024 Athletica HPC began prepping for Team USA in 2018 The USOPC was vetting sites for the Paris Games HPC and came across ATHLETICA due to its good infrastructure and location They sent an email in August 2018 to the training center which Zumaglia thought was suspicious at first because it was a spam email that didn’t come directly from the USOPC ATHLETICA asked for them to come in two weeks because the facility was under construction but Team USA wanted to show up in 48 hours it was the first step of the dream we are meeting right now,” said General Director and CEO of ATHLETICA Arnaud Zumaglia “We are very proud to welcome them here and to do everything possible to integrate the best services we can.” Two-time Olympic weightlifter Wes Kitts warms up before practice Tuesday at the USOPC high performance center The facility accommodates all types of sports The indoor facilities include a massive indoor track a pool area for water polo and artistic swimming and top-notch training spaces for weightlifting The HPC offers better options than what most athletes have available to them in the Olympic Village The practice times are particular and are limited to only 90 minutes per day Team USA wrestling coach Mike Gattone said The teams also would be unable to acquire enough credentials for athletes to bring their personal coaches into the village for training we get to keep the personal coaches and athletes together,” Gattone said and I can find most of the resources I need the ATHLETICA facility and Team USA provide complete medical and recovery facilities a nutrition and meal cafeteria and mental wellness and psychology services Athletes can also access a Team USA lounge The facility’s renovation cost approximately $29 million Team USA paid for two and a half months worth of rent The rent means that the facility is only accessible to Team USA during the contract so ATHLETICA’s other clients are unable to use it during the games Kirwan said the final price is still undetermined “To be able to have somewhat of a normal training environment is something (which) we’re very used to has been very comforting,” Team USA weightlifter Jourdan Delacruz said “It’s been really easy to adjust as an athlete traveling all the way out here to Paris.” the HPC’s purpose isn’t only to provide athletes with incredible equipment THE USOPC wanted to ensure the complex allowed athletes to train together Kiran made this a key point for the HPC as it creates a “teamship” that the athletes don’t usually have in the crowded Olympic Village The athletes across all sports at the HPC interact with each other daily when training fencing and breaking practice is done in the same gymnasium “It feels like being at a University,” Gattone said we see a lot of superstars on the Olympic Team It makes them (the athletes) feel a lot more excited to be here.” While many of these sports focus on individual performance and success Team USA gets the chance to practice and recover under one roof as a unit Delacruz described her experience doing her accessories next to two-time gold medalist runner Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone She also watched the USA Men’s Gymnastics medal while getting a massage with five-time gold medal-winning gymnast Simone Biles and gold medalist Jordan Chiles every day is amazing,” Team USA artistic swimmer Daniella Ramirez said “It reminds you how hard you’ve worked and how hard everybody else in the world has worked (It’s)really motivating to me to see how everybody else is working just as hard as you are.” After Team USA’s 60 days of using the facility for the Olympics and Paralympics the facility will continue to welcome athletes of the highest level worldwide ATHLETICA will work with different federations and clubs to select athletes to train at the facility including a few NFL athletes who have trained there The facility will also bring in almost 300,000 athletes aged 13-19 to train and host nearly 80 competitions a year Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University Staff members are listed here Learn more about what we do and how to find our content on our broadcast Find out how your news organization can use Cronkite News content Sign up for daily headlines [email protected] Creative Commons Privacy statement If you had an account with Verso prior to April 2023 you will need to register here to access your account Would you like to switch to our site to see prices and shipping options for your current location Where did the idea of ecofeminism come from This is the ultimatum given by French feminist writer and activist Françoise d'Eaubonne in her 1974 book of the same title d’Eaubonne argued that the global environmental crisis is in fact an age-old hegemonic “male society,” or what today we could call patriarchy d’Eaubonne argued that this was a worldwide societal structure that has put us on the path to deadly destruction for people and the planet Feminism or Death is where the term “ecofeminism” was published for the first time D’Eaubonne determined that an interlinked subordination of women and the earth was at the root of both the environmental crisis and women’s systemic oppression around the world Ancient man’s control of agricultural technologies resulted in an androcentric society labor and power was paired with exploitative agricultural methods and industrialization for d’Eaubonne gendered systems of oppression are embedded in a man-made industrial world fueled by environmental degradation After filling two hundred pages with descriptions of women’s domination across the globe including the brutal refusal of abortion rights An era of ecofeminism would begin with what d’Eaubonne called a global “mutation,” the author’s term for an ecofeminist revolution D’Eaubonne was critical of the masculinist connotations surrounding the term “revolution” in the 1970s would enact a “great reversal” of man-centered power this grand reversal of power would not mean a simple transfer of power from men to women it would mean the “destruction of power” by women—the only group capable of executing a successful systemic change one that could liberate women as well as the planet the destruction of patriarchal power by women should result in something called “non-power.” In her later 1978 work Écologie / Féminisme: révolution ou mutation arguing that non-power meant “the destruction of power by the confiscation of all our powers ever exercised,” meaning the power over each person’s time and body.1   In Feminism or Death she describes the realization of non-power as the transformation of society and the planet into the feminine: A planet where “the human-being will finally be treated first as a person and not above all else as a male or a female.”   For most of the almost five decades since Feminism or Death’s first publication despite d’Eaubonne’s canonical place in ecofeminist history and in recent decades was relatively inaccessible in French until the republication by Le passager clandestin in 2020 d’Eaubonne has widely been cited as the originator of the term “ecofeminism” since the 1980s (though as Myriam Bahaffou and I discuss in the introduction to the new edition of Feminism or Death the idea of one originator of ecofeminism has been problematized on many levels) So her name is known but very few have actually read Feminism or Death because in its almost half a century of existence only very small excerpts and one chapter of the book have been translated into English These republications and new translations bring with them a long overdue recognition of d’Eaubonne’s groundbreaking ecofeminist contributions Verso’s English translation of the book comes at a time when the global systems crisis that Feminism or Death prophesied is front and center In 2022 we’re facing unprecedented global warming a global trend of rising right-wing populism and fascism and the ongoing global pandemic of Covid-19 And all of this takes place within a global capitalist economy fueled by extractivist industries rooted in patriarchal we have seen an escalation of attacks on reproductive rights and health worldwide and continuing world-wide subordination of all women’s (cis and trans) bodies and power These are current forms of gendered domination which strikingly resemble what d’Eaubonne denounced in 1974 from an ecologically feminist perspective we know that women especially Indigenous women and those from the global south are disproportionately impacted by climate change Women of color and trans and gender non-conforming people are also unequally impacted in the global north The transnational Women and Feminists for Climate Justice movement shows us that these women are not victims of climate change but its targets D’Eaubonne’s Feminism or Death is a historical text that is invaluable to our theorizing and movement building today It is also of use to us today because of its shortcomings there are some very problematic parts of Feminism or Death Its analysis is at times essentialist (especially in its use of the terms “phallocracy” and “male”) one of d’Eaubonne’s central premises is that overpopulation rooted in “male society’s” appropriation of women’s reproductive capacities Although d’Eaubonne does specify that the “third world,” as it was once called she does somewhat rely on deeply problematic Malthusian logic today we know overpopulation is not the root cause of climate change especially when looking at the overconsumption and overproduction of greenhouse gas emissions overwhelmingly generated by and for the Global North It is useful for us to critique d’Eaubonne’s work as a way of learning from it Today we can say we are fighting the same international system but its impacts burden women differently depending on their race From this perspective Feminism or Death not only gives us a platform to build on one of the first and few revolutionary international ecofeminist theories but also acts as a feminist project of critique that can move us toward the ecofeminism we want to see in the world today Myriam Bahaffou and I advocate for an ecofeminism that embodies the insights of varying feminisms from the last several decades and decolonial ecofeminism that is nuanced and decolonial feminists that have been intersecting land and gender for decades Arundhati Roy are additional authors who continued to work in this tradition It is no coincidence that Feminism or Death and its international analysis has been released on International Women’s Day Today feminists around the globe come together to resist neoliberalism’s borderless attacks on all of us Grounding such action in honesty and clarity about the difficulties of building solidarity across the North-South Divide is fundamental as transnational feminists and activist scholars Linda E Mohanty have explained.2 There is a system we are collectively resisting but that impacts all of us in markedly different ways Although Women and Feminists for Climate Justice are amongst the “first and worst” impacted by climate change they are also spearheading the most viable climate solutions while simultaneously challenging transnational racial capitalist patriarchal structures the Indigenous women water protectors of Standing Rock Sacred Stone Camp and their victory against the XL Dakota Access Pipeline have become emblematic of the countless localized fights against extractive mining projects led by Indigenous women across the globe The peasant women of La Via Campesina’s (the International Peasants’ Movement) community campaigns to confront and dismantle household patriarchal structures are foundational to their internationalist activism against global industrial agriculture Then there is the African Eco-Feminist Collective advocating for a reclaiming of the commons while resisting multi-national corporatism and global neoliberalism who are strengthening cross-border ecological feminist alliances rooted in their home-based construction of an ecofeminist society in Rojava There is also the Queer Pink bloc at the German anti-coal action Ende Gelände challenging the cis-heteronormative structure of a transnational climate destroying patriarchal system Écologie / Féminisme: révolution ou mutation? 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All rights reserved Rediscovering an activist thinker who was at the origins of eco-feminism Her work inspired an extremely heterogeneous movement but has her ambition to concretely transform the social economic and political organisation of society been pursued This was the work in which Françoise d’Eaubonne expounded her ecofeminist theory which she mentioned for the first time in 1974 in Le féminisme ou la mort a work that was long unavailable but was finally reprinted in October 2020 by Le Passager Clandestin Françoise d’Eaubonne took a deep interest in environmental issues This was the time when the first signs of climate disruption began to appear and intensive agriculture was beginning to impact ecosystems stood for the French presidential elections Françoise d’Eaubonne was soon convinced by his ideas and supported his candidature believed strongly in the ecological need for population control and saw women’s emancipation as an absolute priority soon stated that the exploitation of the earth was ultimately “just” another form of exploitation excessive use of natural resources had to stop just as the capitalist mechanism of exploitation had to be abolished D’Eaubonne also realised that human well-being required land While contemporary ecological discourse is often rooted in a critique of anthropocentrism condemning the human tendency to situate Man at the centre of the universe and to transform everything to suit himself She does not valorise nature intrinsically but the ecologists’ low score in the presidential elections left her deeply disillusioned The activist despaired of the potential for transforming existing institutions and the ecologists’ failure thrust her onto an anti-establishment path that was to shape her ecofeminism Françoise d’Eaubonne became politicised at a very young age she was an adolescent when the Spanish Civil War broke out and a young adult when the Second World War began She joined the Resistance against Nazism and became a member of the French Communist Party when the war ended she challenged the Party’s Algerian policy and left in 1957 It was about twenty years later that she developed her theory still disappointed in the Neo-Marxists’ dogmatic attitude Without abandoning Communism’s initial aims or in other words the struggle for collective emancipation she considered it important to learn from the Socialist fiascos that marked the beginning of the 20th century The theory had to evolve in the light of these failures and Marxist analyses had to acquire greater depth the foundations of capitalist exploitation could not be reduced to the class struggle but were the result of a series of age-old mental structures She thus claimed that capitalism is an embodiment of a patriarchal imaginary situating its emergence between the fourth and third millenniums BCE a radical transformation of the continental infrastructure and superstructure took place at this time The plough is thought to have replaced the hoe a key tool in traditional female agriculture and land management was transferred to men—transforming the infrastructure As a result it became possible to observe new natural phenomena such as cattle reproduction and from this men supposedly derived their role in human reproduction—transforming the superstructure control of the fertility of nature and women’s fertility while the latter’s role in the reproduction process remained unknown Women were hence considered non-participants in the procreation process and were consequently ignored in testamentary wills the beginning of their socio-economic marginalisation Such an account of the origins of society supports the feminist argument that although unequal relationships between men and women are ancient they are of a socio-historic nature—and hence were not always such The theory arguing that the Northern nomads were the instigators of patriarchy is more or less discounted today the analyses and hypotheses it opens on to are not devoid of interest: according to d’Eaubonne the discovery of fecundity gave rise to new mental structures such as a desire for unlimited expansion and a desire to master what is not oneself (or one’s own) These mental structures would have been handed down over the centuries so that they continue to characterise the patriarchal imaginary today They underpin all relationships of exploitation instigated ever since—the exploitation of women by men D’Eaubonne also boldly denounces the obsession with human reproduction which she interprets as yet another demonstration of patriarchal unlimitednesss This overbreeding exacerbates the harmful effects of patriarchy-capitalism as demographic growth leads to an increase in production and hence a solidification of the mechanisms used to exploit nature To ensure a dignified life for every human being But while the majority of Neo-Malthusian discourses target African countries when she calls for a population decline Françoise d’Eaubonne primarily addresses the industrialised countries She also denounces the hypocrisy of these rich countries which in a neo-colonial paternalistic manner lacking any kind of self-judgment ask the countries of the South to control their births Western countries have a large share of responsibility in global inequalities—they pollute intensely and also organise the plunder of African minerals Françoise d’Eaubonne yet again demonstrates that neither the environmental issue nor the condition of women can be viewed independently of a global analysis of injustice the Italian deplores the patriarchal culture of Marxism-Leninism and its indifference to domestic work which for her part she sees an exploitative structure subjacent to the capitalist system of accumulation The Frenchwoman analyses housework in similar terms Excluded from production and assigned to the reproduction of the life cycle within the private sphere—to parturition bringing up children or even cooking—women provide work that principally serves to emancipate the husband and the son and the children women raise go on to become worker-consumers The capitalist system is hence clearly based on the invisible work of the reproductive class that is ultimately an indirect producer of a labour force sold to employers Stating so early on that capitalism is based on the exploitation of the fairer sex made Lonzi and d’Eaubonne pioneers of materialist feminism This trend that emerged at the beginning of the 1970s is primarily characterized by the theorisation of patriarchy based on conceptual tools borrowed from Marxism a return to gentle and extensive agriculture or the decentralisation of power and the creation of communal type self-management committees are so many paths to be envisaged for a fitting renewal of society does not quibble over the system of patriarchal values but updates it in order to bring about another form of collective organisation for which she is not afraid to suggest concrete and radical measures Her aim is not to create alternative groups on the fringes of the system but to provoke a mutation of the system itself It is often said that it was during a trip to France that the philosopher Mary Daly discovered d’Eaubonne’s thinking which she went on to import into the United States ecofeminism also developed beyond the walls of universities The anti-nuclear battles women engaged in from the 1970s onwards in Seattle for example (with Starhawk) or in Greenham Common (with Alice Cook and Gwyn Kirk) the Chipko movement in India (represented notably by Vandana Shiva) or the Green Belt Movement in Kenya (founded by Wangari Maathai) are good illustrations of the activist aspect of the ecofeminist theory it is not really relevant to radically distinguish the theoreticians from the activists as the majority supported ecofeminism on both fronts Ecofeminist contributions have increased and today the movement includes several “famous names”: in addition to the ecofeminists mentioned above Their contributions are unique and differ from each other but as they claim the same label d’Eaubonne’s heirs doubtless have something in common—something must link them and this term is perfectly appropriate here It is difficult to discuss ecofeminism without talking about the imaginary of reconnection This expression is an invitation to reconnect with oneself as well as to reconnect to the living world The spiritual exercises Starhawk invites people to practice in Dreaming the Dark or The Work that Reconnects by Joanna Macy are clear examples of this discourse of reconnection developed the Spiral Dance (Starhawk) and The Elm Dance (J collective “reconnection” dances during which the participants form a human chain holding hands and doing a series of prescribed movements These practices are frequent in ecofeminism and Embracing the imaginary of reconnection seems increasingly to be a prerequisite for the “transition” to take place the ecofeminists are often close to care ethicians whose ethical framework includes attention also characteristic of so-called feminine values Val Plumwood’s work is highly representative of this proximity One of ecofeminism’s main challenges is to promote social behaviour attributed to the female population and to question so-called patriarchal attitudes the ecofeminists criticize the way the patriarchal imaginary is believed to systematically contrast and rank the body and the mind The first terms of these dual constructions are believed to be associated with the feminine and inferiorised These dualities that pervade thinking and language are also believed to infiltrate institutions and human relationships Most ecofeminists analyse the relationships of domination that undermine society through this prism: each dominated group would be associated with the female world and inferiorised on this basis Although she coined the term the actresses in the movement identify with Françoise d’Eaubonne has ended up on the fringes of ecofeminism She is rarely mentioned by ecofeminists—and when they do it is only to respect a few vague genealogical requirements: the Frenchwoman forged the famous concept in 1974 but it had little impact at the time The survival of the movement is mainly due to American women who retrieved it and gave it the scope it has today But a few short bibliographical notes cannot do justice to d’Eaubonne’s work and stating that her thinking was often overlooked is not the same as bringing her back into the spotlight it is not really surprising that Western society of the 1970s and 80s found it difficult to accept a theory tinged with Communism The left in America and Europe was suffering: the radical wing was condemned and the left-wing party shifted away from socialist ideals the failure of Communist utopias precipitated the collapse of Socialism and in the United States embroiled in the Cold War it was almost dangerous to support Socialist arguments How then could anyone put forward an argument as radical as d’Eaubonne’s a section of the feminists wanted to revalorize the image of the housewife which the second wave (Women’s Liberation Movement For the so-called third wave feminists a woman could indeed blossom at home and through maternity if this was a chosen and desired condition As the ecofeminists globally subscribed to this trend it was yet again difficult to revive d’Eaubonne’s Neo-Malthusian work A similar dilemma emerged later with the progress of the biomedical sciences A number of feminists consider today that medically assisted procreation represents social or even moral progress and should be defended They hence adopt a stance little compatible with Neo-Malthusianism We should finally mention the tidal wave of post-modernism that rapidly filled the gap between d’Eaubonnian ecofeminism and the later forms of the movement the (eco)feminists of the end of the century were strongly marked by French theory They thus maintained a particularly tenuous connection with Jacques Derrida his deconstruction and his concept of carnophallogocentrism linking what he considered the three pillars of Western civilisations: animal sacrifice male superiority and the supremacy of logos Certainly there was vast internal diversity within the movement but these thematic axes were indisputably recurrent stands apart in this landscape as the figure who confirms the rule: she specifically bemoaned the dematerialised thinking of the third wave feminists for whom the deconstruction of discourse took precedence over the development and defence of a concrete collective project—which had been the left’s initial task D’Eaubonne’s political vision thus remained marginalised Was this silence confirmation of a conclusive cleavage between her ecofeminism and the later forms of the movement would this not reveal a strong contrast between the activist’s radical thinking and the thinking of today’s left more focused on identity issues and the “internal revolution” than on a concrete political project d’Eaubonne would paradoxically be closer to the radical left than women who claim to be ecofeminists today The Frenchwoman put forward a revolutionary democratic project for the city When d’Eaubonne supported population decline she favoured a societal project with an atomised exertion of individual freedom but this freedom is illusory in the absence of collective freedom Thinking with d’Eaubonne thus implies seeking the autonomy of the city [1] Caroline Goldblum and Serge Latouche respectively signed the preface and postface to Écologie et féminisme They also collaborated on Françoise d’Eaubonne et l’écoféminisme published 2019 in the collection directed by S a compilation of excerpts of texts by Françoise d’Eaubonne who also dedicated his doctoral thesis to the activist [2] Françoise D’EAUBONNE [3] “Let’s Spit on Hegel”, transl. Victoria Newman, available at http://blogue.nt2.uqam.ca/hit/files/2012/12/Lets-Spit-on-Hegel-Carla-Lonzi.pdf. Originally published by Rivolta Rivolta Femminile with an English translation in Paola Bono and Sandra Kemp’s Italian Feminist Thought (1991) [4] Ibid. [5] In this work we discover an information bulletin written by the Ecology-Feminism group created around d’Eaubonne and Appel à la grève de la procreation (Call for a procreation strike) launched by the same group Both these documents confirm the associations’ actions In this work we also find an excerpt of the conclusion to Écologie et féminisme reiterating the concrete paths to achieving the activist’s project for society [6] On May 3 1975, a group of activists bombed the Fessenheim site where the nuclear power plant was being built. Nobody was wounded in the attack, but the construction work was delayed for several months. Positioned at the interface between suburban housing to the west and a large housing block to the east, the scheme designed by Pierre Lepinay and Bertrand Meurice of the LEM + architectural firm integrates two buildings that successfully create a true urban setting. Floor PlanThe project’s architectural identity is reflected in the strong commitment made by the architects to integrate the two new buildings into the existing site privilege spaces allowing residents to communicate with one another and create a new You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Valarie Allman practices her form throwing the discus at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics works with her coach Zebulon Sion at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics Logan Edra works out with teammates during a breaking practice session at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics An athlete works out at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics Will Fleming at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics Pole vaults sit on the track as Finbarr Kirwan speaks to the media at the 2024 Summer Olympics The fencing practice area sits in a gym as members of the breaking team work out in the background at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics The pool facilities stand in the background as artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez talks to the media at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics Weightlifter Mary Theisen-Lappen places weights on the rack at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics A coach’s American flag and etiquette instructions are seen on the bench at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics Shot putter Joe Kovacs walks off the field after a practice session at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics Weightlifter Wes Kitts works out at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics Breaker Jeffrey Louis talks to the media at the Team USA training facility at the 2024 Summer Olympics France (AP) — United States discus thrower Valarie Allman practiced her form on a quiet field Weightlifter Mary Theisen-Lappen took instruction from her coach inside a training room with other American weightlifters moved his head and shoulders to a hip-hop beat in an adjacent room There was a spot for all of them at the ATHLETICA high-performance training center which is serving as the training base for U.S athletes competing at the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics It’s in a small suburb north of Paris called Eaubonne and is separate from the Olympic village in Saint-Denis where most athletes at the 2024 Games are living and training There are training spots all throughout the complex the goal is to create a home away from home for American athletes They have a full sports medicine clinic and recovery center a residential area with about 100 sleeping rooms and mental health experts and sports psychologists are available whenever athletes need them “The ideal scenario for an athlete is that they don’t have to travel far for the services that they need,” said Finbarr Kirwan what we have is a multidisciplinary approach Preparations in partnership with ATHLETICA at the complex started in 2018 He said the organization toured numerous potential facilities for the American athletes About 300 athletes from 16 Olympic sports including artistic swimming gymnastics and track and field are using the center around 150 athletes from 12 sports will use it for the Paralympics Kirwand said upwards of 200 athletes come through the facility every day for food One of them is artistic swimmer Megumi Field who said she and her teammates couldn’t believe U.S athletes had the huge facility all to themselves to kind of test it out before we actually got here USA has their own little community to live in and every sport has their own little venue to train in before the Olympics?’ Field has been enjoying all the benefits of the complex from the familiar food options and extensive training staff to others which you can’t find anywhere else,” Field said with a laugh A private training complex is not unique to the U.S but “I’d like to think that we have the best,” Kirwan said said one advantage is that athletes have somewhere to train outside of the Olympic village where there are set times to practice and sessions are limited to 90 minutes we can train twice a day if we want,” he said “We can train for two hours or three hours.” They can also bring in the athletes’ own personal trainers qualified nearly 600 athletes for the Olympics Team USA could not credential all of the athletes’ personal trainers to get into the village with them “Our athletes are used to being with their personal coach all year long,” Gattone said we get to keep the personal coach and athlete together Weightlifter Jourdan Delacruz likes the option of having access to other athletes at the Olympic village she got a massage next to Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles of the U.S and Biles broke down the intricacies of gymnastics scoring while they all watched the U.S facility in a setting that feels almost like home “This is something that we’re very used to,” Delacruz said It’s been really easy to adjust as an athlete I’m really grateful that Team USA has this place for us to be as comfortable as possible.” A certain revival of interest has been felt in recent years for Françoise d'Eaubonne and her theories The dangers that she warned us of at the dawn of the 1970s—deforestation resource exhaustion—is of burning topicality looks back at the history of the pioneering work of French feminist theory that put the term eco-feminism on the map It’s a real satisfaction for me to know that Feminism or Death will finally be published in the United States almost fifty years after its first publication in France in 1974 Thanks to a new wave of feminism and a greater awareness of climate issues highlighted by a young generation like Greta Thunberg Françoise d’Eaubonne and her ecofeminist theory benefit from a new interest and eradicate her from the oblivion into which she had fallen Françoise d’Eaubonne revealed herself at a very young age in writing: she won the contest for the best short story from writers under thirteen years of age she received the Readers’ Award from a new publishing house (René Julliard) in 1947 for her historical novel Comme un vol de gerfauts Françoise d´Eaubonne was then a young author confirmed in her vocation for writing During her life she published more than one hundred books in some forty different publishing houses and in all literary fields: essays Although she always declared herself a feminist the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex in 1949 was a major event for Françoise d'Eaubonne who then decided to write her first feminist essay "The Diane Complex." This literary essay is the first in a series devoted to themes concerning gender that followed and were written before Feminism or Death Françoise d'Eaubonne was one of the rare intellectuals to claim her feminism and question French sexual puritanism May 1968 was the great turning point that brought these subjects to the fore and marked d’Eaubonne’s great militant awakening that the feminist groups that emerged from May 1968 were structured and organized around the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) The activism of Françoise d'Eaubonne was above all expressed in the spring of 1971 around a movement that she helped to found and which would be significant for the history of homosexual liberation in France: The Homosexual Front of Revolutionary Action (FHAR) It is in this context of activist effervescence that Françoise d'Eaubonne became aware of the ecological question This awareness was made possible thanks to several international events–ecological disasters on the one hand such as the petrochemical dumping of pollutants in Minamata Bay in Japan but also thanks to the American bestseller Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson in 1962 acted also as a detonator by laying out the dramatic ecological consequences of exponential economic and population growth in a finite world The year of publication of Feminism or Death was also that of the presidential elections in France when René Dumont represented political ecology for the first time This French agronomist proposed a change of society in his essay "Utopia or Death" published in 1973 Françoise d'Eaubonne was inspired by Dumont and published Feminism or Death a year later d'Eaubonne noted the universality of the “misogynist fact” throughout history pointing toward the culpability of all men we are all victims of the patriarchy—of the "male culture"—having grown up and apprehended the world through the prism of this system Françoise d'Eaubonne made the interesting comparison between the responsibility of all men in the patriarchy and that of all Westerners in the domination of the Third World She militated for a universalist and anti-colonialist feminism From her ecological awareness came her synthesis of the exploitation of nature by man and the exploitation of woman by man the first milestone of her ecofeminist theory The foundation of ecofeminism is the control of reproduction by women claiming the right to abortion and access to contraception it was in 1974 that the Veil law legalized abortion and that the contraceptive pill was reimbursed by social security Françoise d'Eaubonne went further by proposing that the management of birth is part of a survival instinct of humanity and linked this argument to fears of her contemporaries about overpopulation and ecological collapse published in 1968 in the United States and translated in France by the Friends of the Earth in 1972 this American neo-Malthusian biologist advocated sterilization to avoid the catastrophe of overpopulation d’Eaubonne’s solution was different: to fight against the overpopulation induced by what she calls “phallocratic rabbitism”—or male desires for continuous population growth—the first necessity for women is to take control of reproduction by universally democratizing methods of contraception D’Eaubonne explained this ecofeminist theory in an essay published in 1978 under the title “Ecology-Feminism revolution or mutation.” She defended her theses until the end of her life in 2005 The current militant demands of youth around ecology or around feminisms can only contribute to rediscovering the thought of a decrementist There are no statistics available for this player Thanks for visiting The use of software that blocks ads hinders our ability to serve you the content you came here to enjoy We ask that you consider turning off your ad blocker so we can deliver you the best experience possible while you are here 2024DIMITAR DILKOFF/Getty Images/Amanda K BaileySave this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyAll products featured on Self are independently selected by our editors we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links What happens when 15,000 international athletes—including almost 600 from the United States—converge on a single city to compete at the Olympic Games And if the city just so happens to be Paris Then we can probably safely assume they’ll eat quite well Olympic organizers estimate they’ll serve up a total of 13 million meals at the Games including 2.2 million to athletes and their teams Team USA members will likely eat many of these in the Olympic Village but the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) won’t leave anything to chance when it comes to fueling athletes Case in point: Along with the main dining hall in the Village the USOPC will also operate a High Performance Center about 10 miles north of Paris Team USA athletes will have access to a range of top-notch services a team of more than a dozen dietitians will travel to Paris to stay on top of each athlete’s individual nutritional needs So what exactly will they be eating—and how will they go about getting their meals in the middle of the biggest competitions of their lives Here’s more about how and what the country’s top performers will eat as they represent Team USA at the Summer Games in Paris Beginning on July 12—two weeks before the official start of the Games—the main canteen in the Olympic Village will be open 24/7 who might finish competing late at night or early in the morning (basically catering staff will serve up to 40,000 meals both in a 3,500-seat dining hall and in to-go containers Asia (think minced pork with Thai basil and basmati rice) Africa-Caribbean (a shakshuka stir-fry with peppers and onions) If none of the 40 different meals offered each day strike an athlete’s fancy There will also be plenty of fruit and dessert and five takeaway kiosks to make it easy to grab food to go who has two restaurants in Paris (Pouliche and Café de Luc) they’re making more dishes veggie-forward and reducing the use of animal products by 50 to 60% throughout all Olympic facilities They’re also looking local: About 80% of the products consumed (including all beef and eggs) will be of French origin with one-fourth coming from within about 155 miles of Paris And organizers aim to halve the weight of single-use plastics throughout Olympic catering facilities meaning more reusable glass bottles and tableware and a push to recycle and compost when possible France doesn’t skimp on carbs Paris is known for its boulangeries and pâtisseries An on-site bakery will turn out fresh baguettes and even offer workshops for athletes where they’ll shape and bake their own long If all those options are making your head swarm, you’re not alone: First-time Olympians often find the size and variety of the dining hall overwhelming, Alicia Glass, senior sports dietitian for the USOPC, tells SELF. As they prepare for what might be their biggest-ever event, they want food that meets their nutritional needs, doesn’t cause gastrointestinal distress That’s where the dozen-plus USOPC dietitians come in Glass works with swimmers at the beginning of the meet and track and field athletes later in the competition “One of the biggest things our job focuses on is creating a home-field advantage which is hard when you’re in an international country,” Glass says To get there, she provides personalized nutrition advice to athletes throughout the year if they want it. She also coordinated with Knutson and his team to get familiar foods like protein bars and fruit snacks shipped from the US to France (They placed orders around Christmastime to make sure the shelf-stable foods could clear customs.) she plans to walk athletes through the dining hall helping them find choices that align with what they eat at home She’ll scope out menus and ingredient lists ensuring they get the nutrients they need and avoid allergens And she’ll give them tips on locating water stations and coffee in the Village as well as help them think through the logistics—for instance if they’ll actually have time to wait in line for a latte before catching a bus to their training facility or competition venue This year, she’ll have some high-tech help, through an app called Teamworks Nutrition. Athletes can use the app to track what they’re eating during the Games, making sure they’re getting all the macronutrients (protein, carbs, and fat) and micronutrients (such anti-inflammatory polyphenols and vitamin C found in fruits and vegetables) Glass and her colleagues can check the app and make recommendations; they can also use the app to order meals for delivery or other special requests American athletes also have the option of eating meals at the High Performance Center, a one-stop shop that houses another 250-seat dining hall, in addition to sports medicine and mental health practitioners, as well as hot and cold plunge pools and cryotherapy chambers and will be well-stocked with familiar items who estimates they’ll serve about 25,000 meals to Team USA Olympians some with a French flair and others that are thoroughly American (dietitians like Kave calculate the nutritional details of each one so athletes know exactly what they’re getting) Ingredients include around 8,000 pounds of protein: 3,100 pounds of chicken In addition to a recently remodeled kitchen Knutson has purchased two outdoor grills to prepare some of the meats in ways athletes are used to In addition to an estimated 2,800 pounds of pasta (up from the 2,000 pounds they served in Tokyo) baked up from a bakery just down the street Knutson estimates they’ll go through about 100 to 150 loaves per day food will be available in a special athlete-only lounge and a nutrition recovery center stocked with items perfect for pre- or post-workout fueling And help will be available 24/7 to make meals or grab snacks even if they go beyond what’s already been shipped or acquired That might require one or more trips to secure out-of-the-ordinary or out-of-stock items: “If that means Hilary talks to an athlete and their favorite thing is freeze-dried oranges Or it can be as simple as spreading jam on bread made a beeline to take some of the three loaves’ worth of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches Glass would prepare after each swimming session in Rio where the entire world is watching—by simply just handing a peanut butter and jelly to an athlete they look at you like they want to hug you,” she says The HPC will also pack up about 3,000 to 4,000 boxed meals and send them out with athletes or directly to competition venues That’s especially important for athletes like swimmers who might compete in multiple events per day and lack time to head to the dining hall in between She and her colleagues will use the Teamworks Nutrition app to place orders for each team and athlete and make sure the right food gets where it needs to go For example, say Katie Ledecky has a race at night and wins she might have to provide a urine or blood sample for drug testing and do a warm-down (what swimmers call a cooldown) to recover and prepare for her next event She might not return to the Village for two to three hours after touching the pool wall So Glass and her team will deliver hot meals to the pool—nutritious but portable items like rice bowls topped with lean protein and plenty of veggies Ledecky and her teammates can refuel on site and then hit the sack when they get back to the Village since they might have to do it all again starting early the next morning which is one large loop instead of several smaller ones each of Team USA’s five to six marathoners might need as many as 16 staffers to hand them their bottles along the route All of this is a lot of logistics and work for the USOPC staff on top of what’s already provided to all Olympians But the end goal is giving Team USA athletes what they need when it counts “We do everything we can on the food side to make sure our athletes are happy and ready to compete for gold medals,” Knutson says SELF is your one-click source for all things Summer Olympics. 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Thirty-eight new social housing units have just been completed in Eaubonne, in the Île-de-France region, designed by the Parisian office LEM+ architectes located amongst peripheral houses to the west and large residential blocks to the east integrates two buildings that create a true urban environment The project breaks down the “wall” effect of the traditional linear blocks The architects propose to open the public space to the existing park making a transition of scale by means of the well-thought out choice of positioning the first building against one of the existing blocks A strong linking axis between the 'path' that leads to the school to the west and a portico to the east was created with a second L-shaped building constructed on a more 'domestic' scale The volume and the levels were designed to create transparencies while masking the 'isolating' effect of the existing block located behind The result is well-structured architecture that respects the residents who have lived in this area for more than ten years The architects have created common glazed areas with living areas that open onto balconies creating a visual continuity and offering the residents generous views over the surrounding environment Particular care has been given to the design of the functional aspects of the apartments like the use of sliding doors that open completely to expand the interior space to the full The architectural identity of the project is reflected in the architects' strong commitment to integrate the two new buildings in the existing context allowing the residents to communicate with each other and creating a new and unique urban environment “The revolutionary spirit will be surpassed by the number-one requirement of the modern world: mutation.” radical feminist Françoise d’Eaubonne surveyed women’s status around the globe and argued that the stakes of feminist struggles were not about equality but about life and death—for humans and the planet but the woman is both more alienated and more reassured; the economic advantages of freedom and of direct participation in production are neutralized for her by the affective and sexual desert that she fears by tradition and by the perpetual questioning of lifestyle according to the temporary companion who helps her flee this desert not counting the dangers of possible pregnancy in a society where abortion remains a crime The woman needs particularly advantageous economic conditions or a taste for independence and a fearlessness in the face of all dangers to confront such problems in place of the relative comfort offered by marriage: the little fortress-ghetto where one man alone protects you from all the aggressions That is why she will accept almost universally this status of fille au pair who agrees to exhaust herself in nonproductive free work in exchange for room and board alone or who will nearly go crazy trying to maintain this work (and raising the children) while working outside in a position Revolutionary feminists are demanding that study groups be formed for this problem “that would permit us to examine the ambiguous politics of capitalism and patriarchal/capitalist relations,” they say Because the invisible work of the housewife is obtained by patriarchal ideology and oppression: economic dependence on the husband;                          The capital problem of this constraint rests in the sexual repression of the man and The question of household exploitation intersects thus the liberation of Eros either the problem of sexual relations that are situated in France between the prison of marriage vows or the monitored freedom of the single woman the problem of specific economic exploitation of woman by unpaid work in the home we will see that one inevitably overlaps the other heterosexuality would disappear as the norm imposed and the structural base of the society along with sexism and unpaid work in the home for women—it would be the end of the phallocratic patriarchy the triumph of the feminine as a second drive incessantly repressed by the historical male development It would finally be the massive end to runaway population growth and to intensive productivity to satisfy false needs that distort true desires of apocalyptical pollution and the destruction of the environment the care of which will be picked up again by the sole bearers of life’s sources The revolutionary spirit will be surpassed by the number-one requirement of the modern world: mutation delivers remarks to family members of Team USA with U.S at the ambassador’s residence during the 2024 Summer Olympics track and field athlete Melissa Jefferson at the team’s training facility during the 2024 Summer Olympics learns the proper technique to pass a baton from head women’s relay coach Mechelle Freeman during a visit to the team’s training facility during the 2024 Summer Olympics speaks with Team USA women’s rugby player Sammy Sullivan First lady Jill Biden delivers remarks to family members of the U.S Ambassador’s residence before the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics first lady Jill Biden visited some American athletes at an Olympic training center in Paris on Thursday wishing rugby and track and field competitors good luck and even taking part in a stationary relay drill with runners America’s athletes aren’t only propelled by the years of sweat and sacrifice they’ve poured into their training,” she said in front of a giant USA cutout colored with the American flag lifting them higher as they reach for gold.” After her speech at the residence of the U.S Biden headed to a training center in the northern Paris suburbs to visit with athletes on the U.S women’s rugby team and the track and field team took pictures and helped in a track drill where athletes hand off the baton standing as she handed the baton to the runners positioned an arm’s length apart as they practiced handing it off in quick succession Biden will speak at a brunch to commemorate the opening of the Games and celebrate the 2028 Olympics being held in Los Angeles LA Mayor Karen Bass was among those accompanying Biden on the Paris trip Myriam Soumare produced the fastest indoor performance by a European sprinter for seven years to win the 200m at the women-only ‘Meeting Feminin du Val d’Oise’ in Eaubonne tonight (7) The 2010 European 200m champion was up against Patricia Hall the Jamaican who clocked a surprise 22.88 to win at this meeting last year but tonight it was Soumare’s turn to crack the 23-second barrier The French woman smashed her previous indoor PB (23.10) to win in 22.87 while Hall had to be content with second place in 23.20 the Ukrainian who finished one place ahead of Soumare at last year’s European Championships was a distant third tonight in Eaubonne in 24.09 Soumare’s performance puts her at fourth on the French indoor all-time list for the event behind Muriel Hurtis-Houairi but there she was relegated to second place behind Ukraine’s Mariya Ryemyen the sprinter who succeeded Soumare as the European 200m champion last year Ryemyen clocked 7.15 – her second-fastest time to date behind the 7.12 PB she recently set in Moscow – while Soumare posted a season’s best of 7.21 enjoyed a close tussle with European bronze medallist Olena Holosha in the High Jump Ukraine’s Holosha led for the first half of the competition clearing all heights through to 1.93m on her first attempt Hellebaut then took the lead with her first-time clearance at 1.95m before leaping 1.97m on her second attempt; the height at which Holosha exited the competition Hellebaut ended the night with three failed attempts at 2.00m Portugal’s Sara Moreira was a decisive winner of the 3000m The two-time European medallist over 5000m stopped the clock in 8:52.48 to win by almost two seconds over indoor debutante Almenesh Belete of Belgium (8:54.14) For the second year in succession at this meeting World junior steeplechase record-holder Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia was third (8:55.73) The closest contest of the night was in the women’s 60m Hurdles Fresh from setting a big PB of 7.93 last weekend in Moscow Russia’s Yuliya Kondakova triumphed again tonight – but only just Her winning time of 8.06 was just enough to beat Italy’s Veronica Borsi (8.07) and Alice Decaux of France (8.08) Eunice Barber returned to action in the Long Jump In a competition won by Brazil's Melanie Martins (6.40m) The 1999 World Heptathlon champion and 2003 World Long Jump champion last competed in 2010 French indoor champion Marie Gayot was a clear winner of the 400m in 53.14 while three-time World silver medallist Nadine Kleinert found 18.00m enough to win the Shot Soumaré – from modest beginnings to triple Eu.. 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Votre abonnement n’autorise pas la lecture de cet article Pour plus d’informations, merci de contacter notre service commercial. At 83, Barbara Humbert dreams of taking part in next year’s Paris Olympic Games “Marathon For All,” a race opening the Olympic route to non-elite competitors for the first time — and she has the pedigree to beat some runners half her age. Not your typical great-grandmother, the German-born Frenchwoman runs 50km per week, has competed in dozens of marathons, and has the medals to show for it. “It’s extraordinary to have the Olympics in Paris,” Humbert said at her home in Eaubonne, about an hour’s drive north of the capital. “It would be a gift for my 60th marathon,” she added. “For me it would be a crowning achievement.” That is far from certain, as the number of race bibs is limited to 20,024, to be chosen in a random draw. Her husband Jacques Humbert, her biggest supporter, is helping where he can, and waiting for a response from the sports ministry to a request to reserve a bib for his wife. The ministry was not immediately available for comment. Dozens of medals hang in the entrance of their home. They remind Barbara Humbert of all the races she has been part of, from Athens to Boston and beyond, amounting to about 8,000km, based on her own calculations. More than 40 years after she first started racing, last year Barbara Humbert beat a world record in her category during the French athletics championships, by running 125km in 24 hours. She did it by training a lot, and being careful with her diet, she said, encouraging others to follow in her footsteps. “It gives you a balance. You run, you empty your head, you feel so much better afterwards,” she said. “As long as my joints don’t cry out in pain, I will keep running,” she said. 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Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. according to her own calculations.More than 40 years after she first started racing last year Humbert beat a world record in her category during the French athletics championships by running 125 km in 24 hours.How did she do it encouraging others to follow in her footsteps."It gives you a balance you feel so much better afterwards."And she's not planning to stop anytime soon "As long as my joints don't cry out in pain I will keep running!"Reporting by Noemie Olive and Lucien Libert additional reporting and writing by Juliette Jabkhiro editing by Ingrid Melander and John Stonestreet THIS is the state-of-the-art training center where Team USA stars such as Simone Biles and Noah Lyles will prepare for the 2024 Paris Olympics Approximately 1,200 Team USA athletes and staff will have access to the expansive Athletica center, which is located far from the hustle and bustle of the French capital The facility in the small town of Eaubonne, in the northern suburbs of Paris, has been given a $29 million revamp to prepare for the arrival of Team USA's superstar athletes ahead of the Olympics Team USA athletes will be able to use a nearby swimming pool and stadium meaning there will be a short 15-journey to the center "It really has exceeded all of our needs.  "We've visited over a dozen facilities and this one early on, it became clear that it was our top choice. Harris is confident about the safety of Team USA athletes in Eaubonne "We're obviously the most prominent and visible delegation So we always take security very seriously," he said "But Paris and France are more safe than most American cities Approximately 40 members of staff and 100 volunteers will work at Athletica during the Olympics The Paralympics then follow from August 28 until September 8 Team USA athletes are due to visit local hospitals and schools during their time in Eaubonne Gréaud at the studio in an ‘LC4’ chaise longue named after Schrödinger and his famous thought experiment Two artworks from Gréaud’s Reject of a primitive mental structure series narrow window slashes through a corner of the zinc-clad building the concrete specialists required that Gréaud sign a liability waiver as they thought it would crumble under six tonnes of concrete French artist Loris Gréaud invites us into his light-filled the final project of late architect Claude Parent – watch the exclusive film rising up like a shark fin in a sea of stucco houses But Eaubonne also happens to be the home of artist Loris Gréaud Gréaud has garnered a reputation for artworks that mess with viewers’ perceptions He created an underground sculpture park that nobody can see destroyed a museum exhibit on the night of its opening and shot a two-hour film for one viewer to watch at a time he was entranced by the drawings of Parent co-developed an architectural theory called ‘la fonction oblique’ using sloped planes to prioritise space over surface when Gréaud established his name as an artist he searched for a good reason to collaborate with Parent Loris Gréaud gives voice to the story of his collaboration with Claude Parent and offers us a glimpse into the creative partnership of artist and architect From 'A Fluid Universe: Loris Gréaud — Claude Parent' and create a physical model before ending up with an architecture of the mind.’ notes that Gréaud touched something in her father that had long been dormant Parent worked with Yves Klein and other artists ‘Loris is one of the rare contemporary artists to have rekindled this flame this interest and surprise in art,’ she says Artist and architect started collaborating every Wednesday Gréaud was impressed that Parent went through each of these steps – drawing even adding an entrance ramp – for a project that was ultimately imaginary for him there was no utopia,’ he says ‘because everything had to be buildable.’  escapism and design stories from around the world direct to your inbox a small plot next to Gréaud’s studio came up for sale He worked up the courage to ask Parent to design him a new studio Knowing it might be difficult to score a building permit for a brutalist monolith in his town Gréaud invited the then-mayor of Eaubonne to an exhibition on Parent and Jean Nouvel (Parent’s one-time assistant) in Paris who had suffered a stroke three months earlier lived long enough to know there would be one more building to his name ‘We went to see him at the hospital,’ Gréaud recalls ‘Naad [Parent’s wife] asked us to bring the model I entered the room and he mistook me for a young architect working on the project that’s the building the artist commissioned you’ll have to fix this slope…’ He didn’t recognise me and the things that needed to be corrected.’ Parent died shortly afterwards But slanted concrete walls are more complicated to pour than straight ones and it took three years to complete the technical and structural plans before construction started in 2019 Gréaud had factored this timeline into his planning which made the project the most difficult challenge he has ever faced ‘It will be my downfall,’ he says he had to deal with a shortage of construction workers Parent conceived the building so that a ‘cannon’ of light would enter through a glass roof and travel all the way to the bottom But the roof could not be installed before the concrete envelope was complete After Gréaud’s concrete supplier went bankrupt the construction site turned into what he calls ‘one of the world’s most beautiful swimming pools’ for nearly two long years ‘It comes back to an architecture of the mind – when it rained in the building a grotto that is keeping the art and artist safe the same way Sainte-Bernadette is keeping the spirituality and the believer safe.’ Gréaud’s new studio is a space where the artist will work alone his enthusiasm reveals that this is not a folly but an environment that will boost his creative energy The complementarity between his work and Parent’s building is striking; older artworks set against the oblique walls look like they were made for this place with four levels and three parallel stairways putting level ‘0’ above street level and obtaining an extra 2.2m underneath has some of Gréaud’s artworks literally buried within Gréaud has further plans for the rest of the 1,050 sq m property His team will continue to work in the original studio next door his current house will become an exhibition space for what he refers to as ‘immersive installations’ will design a new house for Gréaud behind Parent’s studio Perrault says he will embed the house in the ground like an ancient Ethiopian church linking the different buildings underground ‘There are already a lot of buildings on this small plot so I find it an interesting idea to create another that links the existing ones The idea is to be there and be absent.’ The Workshop’s completion coincided with the 100th anniversary of Parent’s birth and it is hard to think of a better way to mark the event a testament building,’ says his daughter It resembles him and proves that his rebellious spirit was still intact.’   Gréaud’s solo exhibition ‘Cortical Nights’ is on show at the Petit Palais, Paris 8e, from 4 October 2023 - 31 January 2024, corticalnights.com You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser or activate Google Chrome Frame to improve your experience Women climate activists who identify as ecofeminists are demanding the recognition of women’s climate justice work around the world to help protect the planet and advance gender equality French writer Françoise d’Eaubonne coined the term ecofeminism in 1974 D’Eaubonne argued that with the planet in women’s hands Ecofeminism suggests that the patriarchy is the driving source behind the degradation of the planet and exploitation of women — issues that are inextricably linked and cannot be resolved without dismantling oppressive masculine power systems The ecofeminist ideology and movement also highlights the reality that women are the most impacted by environmental issues. Studies show that women are more likely than men to be impacted by climate change and 80% of people displaced by climate change are women Although embraced by artists and activists for decades, ecofeminism hasn’t been without criticism and pushback throughout the years, with some rejecting the movement’s centering on white feminism and a lack of inclusivity Now there’s a renewed effort to reclaim the term and affirm the role of women of color in leading the charge as the threat of climate change intensifies A new class of activists is carrying the ecofeminist torch passed down from pioneers of the movement, such as Vandana Shiva an Indian scholar and advocate for responsible agriculture who volunteered with India’s Chipko movement to protect forests from deforestation in Uttarakhand in 1973 Indigenous women and women of color have traditionally maintained the land due to proximity and gendered expectations that hold them responsible for feeding their families and procuring essential resources like water. Across Latin America, Indigenous women are at the forefront of initiatives to protect the Amazon young women are taking a stand against pollution didn’t have to travel far to see the impact of climate change on her community Palmer started organizing UK Student Climate Network strikes and actions in 2019 after discovering how air pollution disproportionately impacted South and East London The intersection between environmental issues and race became immediately clear for the writer and student Palmer lived in the South London neighborhood where 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah became the first person with air pollution listed as a cause of death in the UK in 2013. A 2016 London study showed that Black and Caribbean communities are disproportionately exposed to toxic air conditions and represent 15.4% of those in the city exposed to illegal and severely high levels of nitrogen oxide but only represent 13.3% of the city’s population The native woodlands in the UK are reaching a crisis point The woodlands in her country face many threats including destruction by development Palmer applies an ecofeminist lens to her work as an organizer for the global climate justice youth movement Fridays for Future International a coordinator at the global youth-led concerts Climate Live and a member of the UN Women Feminist Coalition for Climate Justice She told Global Citizen she views ecofeminism as “both political activism and an intellectual critique which brings together feminism and environmentalists to explore the connection of oppression of women and the patriarchy Women are not necessarily intrinsically guardians of the earth but gender inequality has forced them to bear the brunt of the climate crisis by dealing with extreme weather events and food scarcity head-on more so than men as a result of resource allocation and representation and power in decision-making spaces “Ecofeminism addresses the extractive male-dominated system in which profits are prioritized over safeguarding the planet,” Palmer said “It advocates for caring for our natural world This is an essential approach to saving our woodlands Palmer wants to see communities of color more represented in decision-making spaces Men shouldn’t be excluded from ecofeminism according to Lake Chad-based climate justice activist and eco-reporter Adenike Titilope Oladosu it is not something that the male folks should be afraid of,” Oladosu told Global Citizen “Ecofeminism is gender-neutral; it is for both males and females.” Oladosu felt joining the climate justice movement wasn’t optional While studying agricultural economics during her undergraduate education she started to understand the impact of the climate crisis specifically in regard to food security and I think everyone should also see it as a responsibility that we protect the planet that houses us to carry the weight and not to depreciate or further exploit,” she said “Everyone is welcome in the movement to see that we have a world that protects the rights of women and girls to try to see how we can all develop without any form of violence.” Oladosu believes climate justice also plays an integral role in ending harmful practices that contribute to gender inequality. When the extremist militant group Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok in Borno State she attributed increased gender-based violence to the depletion of natural resources in the area There are more than 20 million child brides in Africa’s Sahel region Families give up their daughters or pull them out of school to survive the financial impacts of the climate crisis Access to land could help eradicate child brides or reduce gender-based violence the communication and advocacy officer at Lumière Synergie pour le Développement and a member of the WoMin African Alliance of activists has witnessed the impact of the climate crisis on women in agriculture specifically Senegal standing up against Tosyali Steel Co and have learned to use plants as medicine is seeing thousands of residential areas destroyed by coastal erosion the main agricultural development sectors in the country held down by women The disproportionate impact of the climate crisis on women is not a new phenomenon “An order has been established to the detriment of women,” Mbodji said “History has been a witness to the numerous struggles led by women The gendered realities that control the situation of women of color around the world make this positioning strategic Not because they have more legitimacy than their sisters in the rest of the world but because history has shown that they have had to fight doubly for their conditions as women as well as being women of color.” Ecofeminism offers a framework to promote the empowerment of women “I consider ecofeminism not as a movement that comes and goes but as an ideology that must be adopted to give back the rights to women and to allow them to stand up openly for nature and their survival,” she said “Any person who fights for the protection of the environment by seamlessly integrating the instrumental role of women can be qualified as an ecofeminist.” Many of the women at the forefront of the ecofeminism movement don’t identify as ecofeminists themselves — and that’s something Madagascar-based human rights activist Volahery Andriamanantenasoa Courtesy of Launching of the social movement for climate justice and human rights Andriamanantenasoa has been involved in the defense of the rights of communities affected by large-scale mining and agribusiness projects ecofeminism means “the end of domination in all its aspects,” specifically gender and social equality and equity and a rational and responsible interaction with nature women are the most affected by the impacts of the climate crisis experiencing the shocks of strong yearly cyclones and floods that decimate their homes it is a question of survival,” Andriamanantenasoa said “They don't usually ‘name’ that this is an ecofeminist struggle And I would like them to become fully aware of this and to clearly link their struggle to the fight for gender equality and social justice to the fight against patriarchy and the extractivist and capitalist systems and to be able to assert this position more strongly in order to be able to influence national and global policies.” Jhannel Tomlinson — co-founder of the feminist climate activist movement GirlsCARE Jamaica and a PhD candidate at the University of West Indies Mona — works in community-based adaptation to climate change Tomlinson echoes the sentiment of the need for more recognition of ecofeminists she has noticed a lack of representation of Caribbean activists Tomlinson is actively trying to engage and educate girls across the Caribbean who want to take climate action There is a growing need to mitigate the negative effects of the climate crisis on the region such as drought that impacts the agriculture sector and access to drinking water and heavy rainfall that destroys crops and livelihoods just that relationship that women have had with the environment with being protectors of the environment — I think that has always been the case especially in Indigenous and communities of color,” Tomlinson said Female farmers who cultivate coffee in Jamaica’s Blue Mountain region are a prime example of this But I also recognize that for many of them they don't even see it as contributing to the preservation of resources,” she said “Many ecofeminists don't even identify as ecofeminist because they just see it as doing their responsibilities or duties or they're doing something that they would have seen their mothers and grandmothers before them do.” Part of Tomlinson’s work is to advocate for the inclusion and recognition of women in areas where they require or deserve more attention women are leading but do not regularly receive appreciation for their contributions Recognition for women’s efforts could promote continued work and a sense of ownership “I have a responsibility to make sure that other women who are doing the work and making sure that things are being maintained and [are] kept in order receive attention for the work that they're doing,” she said Giving credit where credit is due is necessary to propel the climate justice movement “Where individuals can be recognized for their efforts it only promotes more positive behavior that only promotes increased collaboration.” View the discussion thread. Sign In Register there are some aspects of ecofeminism where people radically disagree ecofeminism sees a relationship between the serious environmental damage done to the earth and the repression of women But that one relationship can take many forms depending on what kind of ecofeminist you are Radical ecofeminism talks about this in particular; depicting women as natural and irrational, they say, created a hierarchy where men needed to come in and control and develop them and that low-income women of color are disproportionately exposed to toxic chemicals in the workplace Women are both invested in preventing environmental damage and very vulnerable to it Writer Leigh Grammar points out that this vulnerability is a patriarchal thing: "Women are hurt most by the exploitation of the earth because they are the most vulnerable in patriarchal society The main focus is on women who are more at risk because they suffer double oppression of poverty or nation." And it goes further than just disempowerment and cycles of poverty — women in their capacity as natural resource managers might have unique perspectives on how to help stop environmental damage "The claim that women are biologically closer to nature," she says "reinforces the patriarchal ideology of domination and limits ecofeminism's effectiveness" Ecofeminists of the radical strain don't believe this either (There's also a bit of a cultural issue, too. For instance, Dr. Twine points out that Chinese society doesn't have the same "women equal nature" idea, even though it has similar issues about female inferiority; he cites the Chinese academic Huey-li Li, who says "The association of women and nature is not a cross-cultural phenomenon since nature as a whole is not identified with women in Chinese culture".) People are worried about radical ecofeminism, too. One of the more popular critiques of ecofeminism, over at Green Fuse, makes the argument that it seems to clash with conventional feminism these days which wants to put women into positions of power (Hilary 2016!) and give them a chance to be part of the hierarchy Radical ecofeminism wants to eliminate those structures and replace them with communal decision-making and equal valuing of all people and it's worried that it's not a realistic point of view Whatever your interpretation, ecofeminism is a unique feminist lens on the very real relationship between gender and environmental issues Damage to the environment is definitely a feminist issue; it desperately needs the involvement of empowered educated women to succeed in protecting communities and stopping further serious degradation Images: MisandryOverMisogyny/Etsy