Si j’ai, par mes carrières précédentes, l’habitude de voir des photos de moi dans des magazines issus de divers pays, c’est la première fois qu’on traduit mes mots vers le japonais pour accompagner celles-ci. Le reportage de Juliette Dupuis Carle sur les personnes survivantes de violences psychologiques et conjugales, What does it mean to be free?, fait l’objet d’un portfolio dans le magazine Newsweek Japon, accompagné de citations et de résumés des parcours des personnes sur les photos.
« In my head, in everyone’s head, my panic attacks only proved one thing: that my heart was broken. They heard trauma screaming and only saw me as this helpless, frail romantic girl. »
Florence lived with their violent ex-partner before they could find the strength to leave him. As a professional writer, they opened up about this part of their life in a graphic novel. Today, they hike in non-mixity to reclaim their own path.
About our hike, they told me « Since we were going to take pictures, I almost had the reflex to dye my hair. Almost. That was a hill my abuser would have died on: he would say, because I tied my hair, because I wouldn’t doll myself up, it was clear that wasn’t confident. That I was hiding. In his eye, a ‘feminine’ ‘woman’ must be mindful of her appearance at all times, and definitely let her long, wavy hair loose. So, today, I kept my natural roots and tied my hair into that practical braid he hated so much. »