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Titiou Lecoq

Audrey Lecoq, known as Titiou Lecoq, (born 22 January 1980 in Paris, France), is a French journalist, blogger and novelist, known for her books, blogs and articles about Internet culture and her activism for women's rights. Her articles as a journalist have been published by leading French newsmedia, including Le Monde, Libération, L'Express and others. Until 2024, Lecoq has authored three novels and seven non-fiction works in French, some of which have also been published in German and Russian translations.

Titiou Lecoq in 2015

Biography

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During her childhood in Paris in the 1980s and 1990s, before the Internet was popular, Lecoq was an avid reader of French novels in her mother's library.[1] Having owned her first computer in 1997, Lecoq has described herself as a fan of social media and the Internet, as well as a feminist fighting against sexism, traditional male/female roles and violence against women.[2]

After graduating with a a Diplôme des Etudes Approfondies in semiotics, she started her career as an intern with cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles.[3] Le Monde, a leading newspaper in France, described her as a representative of "the feminist galaxy of 2017".[4] Writing for the French online magazine Slate.fr for 13 years, she authored more than 388 articles, until she took a break on 14 January 2022.[5]

From 2008 until 21 April 2020, Lecoq wrote her blog Girls and Geeks, where she wrote about her daily life and her love life. Having published parts of her blog in the 2015 non-fiction book Sans télé, on ressent davantage le froid (Without TV, you feel the cold more),[6] she said in an interview that she appreciates the completely free form of a blog, including the commentaries, and that this form of writing does not really work in a book.[2]

Activism for victims of domestic violence

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Having written an article on 30 June 2017 for the daily newspaper Libération about more than 100 women who had been killed as victims of domestic violence in a year,[7] she started counting such femicides during the next two years.[8] Based on 200 more women murdered by their partners in another article for Libération, she highlighted the criminal aspect of such femicides and wrote that they are generally not committed by a man, who hits too hard, but by a man, who wants to kill, and hits for this purpose. According to Lecoq, in most cases this man had been violent for a long time, and he killed so that "his" wife always would belong to him.[9]

Lecoq campaigns for the recognition of these murders in the legal sense, as voluntary homicide (murder) with premeditation and not excused as "crimes of passion": She argued that their roots are to be found in patriarchal attitudes, and that this violence often has a banal, well-known and habitual character. The consequences, even when they do not lead to murder, are fatal for the woman who is the direct victim, and for children, who are sometimes killed, too. As these murders are typically largely "invisible" and insufficiently condemned, Lecoq called for more public attention and insisted on the importance of efficient action of the police, the justice system, and the financing of associations working for this cause.[8]

Novels and non-fiction

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Until 2024, Lecoq has authored three novels and seven books of non-fiction, dealing with Internet culture, young women's sex life, the unequal distribution of domestic work and income between men and women, as well as women neglected or forgotten by history.[10]

In 2007, she began writing her first novel, Les Morues (The Cods). Published in 2011, it is a story of young Parisians, of the same generation as herself, raised with MTV, Jacques Chirac and Kurt Cobain, hooked on the Internet and anti-globalization parties, active as journalists and bloggers.[11][12] Her 2017 novel La Théorie de la tartine, that was later translated into Russian and German, deals with a young woman, who has a sex tape posted by her ex, an immature hacker and a visionary journalist, who believes that the Internet will transform the world to help her.[13]

In 2017, her non-fiction book Libérées! Le combat féministe se gagne devant le panier de linge sale (Liberated! The feminist fight is won in front of the basket of dirty laundry) dealt with the mental stress that weighs on young mothers. Commenting on the unequal distribution of household tasks and the double charge for women working outside and in the home, she wrote: "We cannot work like our grandfathers and run the house like our grandmothers." [14] In this book, she also denounced the sexist image of women as published in social media, in particular by Instagram.[3][15]

Publications

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Non-fiction

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  • Kata Sutra, la vérité crue sur la vie sexuelle des filles, avec Nadia Daam, Emma Defaud, Élisabeth Philippe et Johanna Sabroux, Jacob-Duvernet, 2009 ISBN 2847242449.
  • Encyclopédie de la webculture, avec Diane Lisarelli, Robert Laffont, 2011 ISBN 222112829X.
  • Sans télé, on ressent davantage le froid, Fayard, 2015 ISBN 2213678677, also published as Chroniques de la débrouille, Le Livre de poche, ISBN 225318263X.
  • Libérées ! Le combat féministe se gagne devant le panier de linge sale, Fayard, 2017 ISBN 9782213705347.
  • Honoré et moi, L'Iconoclaste, 2019.
  • Les Grandes Oubliées. Pourquoi l'Histoire a effacé les femmes, (The Great Forgotten: Why History Erased Women), L'Iconoclaste , 2021 ISBN 9782378802424.
  • Le Couple et l'Argent, L'Iconoclaste, 2022, ISBN 9782378803070.

Novels

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Titiou Lecoq : les mémoires d'une féministe pas si rangée". L'Express (in French). 2024-04-07. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  2. ^ a b Boinet, Carole (2015-06-21). "Titiou Lecoq: "Internet m'a fourni un espace où me retrouver avec d'autres handicapés de la vie"". Les Inrocks (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-17.
  3. ^ a b Héron, Célia (2017-11-13). "Titiou Lecoq: sous le rire, la révolution". Le Temps (in French). ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  4. ^ "La galaxie féministe qui a marqué 2017". Le Monde (in French). 2017-12-26. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  5. ^ "Titiou Lecoq: ses articles à lire sur Slate.fr". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved 2019-04-17.
  6. ^ "Titiou Lecoq: le cru et le QI". L'Express (in French). 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  7. ^ Lecoq, Titiou (2017-12-05). "«Elle s'appelait Christine, elle avait 44 ans, elle était fonctionnaire de police»: une année de meurtres conjugaux". Archived from the original on 2017-12-05. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  8. ^ a b "Meurtres conjugaux : plus de 200 femmes tuées en deux ans, selon le recensement de « Libération »". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2019-01-03. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
  9. ^ "Violences faites aux femmes : les féminicides, ces meurtres encore invisibles". Le Monde (in French). 2017-11-24. Retrieved 2019-04-16.
  10. ^ "Titiou Lecoq : "La domination masculine n'est pas une fatalité historique ou biologique"". L'Express (in French). 2021-09-30. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
  11. ^ Lecoq, Audrey. "BnF Catalogue général". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  12. ^ "Titiou Lecoq fait bonne pêche". Paris Match (in French). 2011-10-15. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
  13. ^ La Théorie de la tartine (in French). www.hachette.fr. 2022-05-15. ISBN 9782253069096.
  14. ^ "Dans un essai très drôle, Titiou Lecoq dénonce la répartition inégale des tâches ménagères". CheekMagazine.fr (in French). 2017-10-04. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  15. ^ "Titiou Lecoq: "L'idéal de la Wonder Woman, on en est revenu!"". L'Express (in French). 2017-10-10. Retrieved 2024-07-15.
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