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Anaïs Bourdet

Anaïs Bourdet was born in 1984. She is a French feminist activist, committed to fighting street harassment and the culture of rape.

In 2012 she is the founder of the Tumblr named Paye Ta Shnek. This blog gathers between 2012 and 2019 more than 15,000 testimonies of women who have been victims of street harassment. His activism predates the #Metoo and swings your pig movements.

Biography

Anaïs Bourdet grew up in the Bouches-du-Rhône in Lambesc. She graduated from the ECV Aix-en-Provence where she studied graphic design in 2010. She travelled to Argentina from 2014 to 2016 and then returned to France (in Marseille) Today, Anaïs is a freelance graphic designer and was part of the 5-M4 collective.

Paye ta Shnek (PTS)

Anaïs Bourdet discovers in 2012 a short film directed by Sophie Peeters, which depicts in documentary form the harassment she may have been subjected to on a daily basis. It is this short film that allowed Anaïs to create a Tumblr in order to gather women's testimonies.

Following this creation, the Tumblr is a huge success, gathering more than fifty testimonials a day where the graphic designer will publish them anonymously online.

The "Pay ta Shnek" movement means « Pay for your vagina” subsequently gave rise to other movements denouncing sexism around several subjects : Pay Your Dress (which denounces sexism in the legal profession of lawyers), Pay Your Womb (denouncing the problems of access to care for women), Pay Your Job (which includes sexual harassment at work as well as sexism), Pay your newspaper (it aims to highlight the sexism of women in journalism school) or Pay for your college (which was created to denounce the sexism present in the academic community) but also Pay for your blouse (in order to share the testimonies of women in the medical sector).

These movements lead Anaïs to several militant initiatives.

In February 2016, she committed to measures against harassment and gender-based violence in the proposed Transport Safety Act.

Together with the collective "Féministe par Inadvertance", she wrote an article published in l'Express with more than 60,000 signatures, in addition to a poster campaign based on visuals created and distributed free of charge.

Received by the National Assembly in 2017, it testifies to the importance of an intersectional approach in order to analyze sexist aggressions, after having noticed among the testimonies received by Paye ta Shnek those concerning sexist attacks but also homophobic, racist or against women with disabilities.

On the night of 22 June 2019, Anaïs Bourdet was attacked outside a Marseilles club with friends. On 23 June 2019, she announced in a message published on social networks, the stop of the Tumblr Paye Ta shnek because she decided to stop collecting and publishing testimonies of women victims of harassment in the street. She also testifies to her emotional fatigue as a result of the cyber harassment she has been subjected to.

Professional Career

As a freelance graphic designer, she edited and designed in 2014, after a participatory fundraising campaign, the book Paye ta shnek: "Tentatives de séduction en milieu urbain" which was created by 222 donors. She also created the book "La guide de voyage : Paris, de Charlotte Soulary" published in January 2018.

In November 2016, Anaïs Bourdet participates in the TEDx ParcMontsouris with a conference entitled J'en ai marre d'être une femme: le harcèlement de rue.

Within Womanhood, a web-documentary directed by Florie Bavard, which gives voice to Egyptian women in the form of a series of fifteen portraits, Anaïs is in charge of the artistic direction and also of the graphic design aspect of the web.

In January 2018, she launches the online shop "Mauvaise compagnie" on the Etsy website, which sells posters, tee-shirts and bags, handmade in France and certified vegan. Part of the profits are donated to feminist associations such as the Feminist Collective Against Cyber-harassment, Family Planning, Stop Harassment in the Street.

Since October 2018, she hosts twice a month with journalist Margaïd Quioc and consultant Elsa Miské the podcast "Yesss" which is produced by the Podcast Factory. An episode is published on a new theme that aims to celebrate women's small and big victories against sexism, including testimonies of repartees in the face of sexist remarks or inappropriate behaviour.

Eight months after the termination of the Tumblr Paye Ta Shnek, Anaïs Bourdet starts a new sorority-based project: the Instagram sissislafamille account, which records testimonies of spontaneous mutual aid between women.

Position statements

Anaïs claims to be Afro-feminist. She is close to Rokhaya Diallo, who is a French figure of the movement.

She defends people who wear the veil and denounces "the infantilisation of women".

Faced with the statements of Marlène Schiappa, Secretary of State for Gender Equality, Anaïs considers that verbalizing street stalkers is not the best solution, but that we should therefore focus on education in order to limit harassment.

Publications

Paye ta shnek : Tentatives de séduction en milieu urbain, Mazarine, 2014

SnauwFe (talk) 15:20, 13 April 2020 (UTC)