Tristane Banon
's latest book
is “Le Péril Dieu” (Éditions de l'Observatoire).
Camille is a child of the century, the fruit of an era that knew how to eradicate punishment through courageous social struggles.
Along with so many others, his mother and grandmother are among those who experienced the "above-ground" behavior of a society in which it was necessary to instil, through laws and decrees, the spirit of benevolence. .
Thus, his grandmother fought so that the unborn children all bear perfectly epicene first names, even in their spelling.
By a law promulgated on February 17, 2046, children grow up and become adults without living with liberticidal sexual assignment, avoiding the grief of a change of first name during possible gender variations, admittedly rare, but which we could no longer pretend to ignore.
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By decree, terms such as “madam” or “sir” have also disappeared from administrative documents, but also “mother”, “father”, “brother”, “sister”, and all those words that confine…
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