INF March 8, 2021 International Women’s rights Day

The idea was to invest the space of the Jean Bart high school, by displaying on March 8, 2021 a selection of fake street signs dedicated to famous women, yesterday or today, from here or elsewhere, that the collective #Nous toutes had stuck in Paris on  March 8, 2019. In a first step, they selected and displayed about a hundred street signs according to the different spaces of the school :

- posters of women from various backgrounds in the places where people pass through and interact: hallways, corridors, courtyards, canteen, library (artists, heroines of books or films, singers, actresses, directors, architects, designers, conductors, fashion designers, models, illusionists, radio hosts, presenters)

- posters of women social rights activists in school spaces (human rights advocates, civil rights activists, suffragettes)

- posters associated with the disciplines (mostly) taught in the classrooms : literature and philosophy, economics and social sciences, physical sciences, biology, mathematics, languages (English, Spanish, German, Chinese, Dutch), computer rooms

-posters of sportswomen, selectors, referees in the gymnasium

-posters of women related to medicine and psychology in the infirmary
At the end of the week, the fake street signs of famous women were removed, the students selected a few of them to be displayed for a few weeks in the Erasmus+ room and in the library
Some other documents published by the collective #Nous toutes were displayed, in order to extend the information and awareness process : useful numbers in case of psychological violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, beatings or rapes, a listing of crimes associated with examples of daily life and the articles of law that punish them.

In a second step, the students made an explanatory file of the action from the different posters distributed in the school, the photographs taken during the event, the research they did on the International Women's Rights Day, on a global scale and on the scale of schools in France, and on the collective #Nous toutes. Then they asked themselves about the impact of this action on the students of the high school by creating a fun quiz to find out what students had retained from the information they had been given. This file was sent to each teacher and each student of the high school.