Science at UM [S02-ep22]: From Marie Huot to Eurostim
This week on "Science at UM," Sylvain Wagnon, a researcher at Lirdef , presents his latest book titled Marie Huot: Libertarian, Neo-Malthusian, Anti-Speciesist, Theosophist... In the second half of the program, we head to Euromov , where Alexandre Legros opens the doors to the Eurostim. A program broadcast on Divergence FM 93.9 every Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, #BalanceTonPorc, Pride parades, Youth for Climate, L214, Extinction Rebellion. The beginning of the 21st century has been marked by numerous demands: greater social justice, of course, but above all greater equality between the sexes, between genders, between “races” (to use the term in its Anglo-Saxon sense), and between human and non-human beings… These movements demonstrate their determination to bring these struggles together, to unite feminism, animal rights, and anti-racism under a single banner as manifestations of the same system of domination. Intersectionality, as it is called, has thus become the bogeyman of conservatives of all stripes, who see it as the ultimate threat to a fantasized tradition.
And yet, what if I told you that as early as the late 19th century, women were fighting not only for greater social justice but also for their own emancipation and against animal cruelty, using arguments that would later come to define intersectionality? Close to the famous Louise Michel and the anarchist movement, Marie Huot was one of these activists who was at once a libertarian, a feminist, an anti-speciesist, and a theosophist.
Our guest is Sylvain Wagnon, a researcher at Lirdef —the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory in Didactics, Education, and Training—who has just published a book titled *Marie Huot: Libertarian, Neo-Malthusian, Anti-Speciesist, Theosophist...* ( ), released by Atelier de création libertaire last April. In it, he highlights the relevance of her struggle today, drawing parallels between the “stomach strike” advocated by Marie Huot at the end of the 19th century and the “Birth Strike for the Future” movement launched in 2019.
In the second half of the program, the report takes you to Euromov. Alexandre Legros gives us a tour of the Eurostim platform, which is designed to stimulate your central and peripheral nervous systems, establish more precise standards for exposure to electromagnetic fields, and potentially treat certain neurodegenerative diseases.
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Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Lucie Lecherbonnier / Aline Périault
Reporting and editing: Aline Périault
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