Questioning intimacy through a historical trial that concerns everyone.

As a witness to the Mazan rape trial hearings, freelance illustrator Julie Émile Fabre draws a close connection between this case and the violence she herself experienced. Drawing on the particular nature of this trial, she unravels the mechanisms at play and forcefully reminds us that the crimes committed are not the work of monsters, but of individuals who perpetrate sexist and sexual violence within a system that validates them. Questioning intimacy through a historic trial that concerns everyone is the challenge taken up by Julie Émile Fabre’s incendiary text, which looks rape squarely in the face in its most ordinary form.

As a direct witness to the Mazan rape trial hearings, Julie Émile Fabre also talks about intimacy, weaving together a hybrid narrative, a powerful text against gender-based violence. The courtroom drawings have an evocative power that helps us understand the violence and the issues at stake in this historic trial.