Within techno evenings, the troubled connections between friendships and drugs

Often, at nightfall, Coco (who prefers to be cited under this nickname) counts her friends by the dozens and asks herself: are we friends? Or are we not just people who do drugs together? When she thinks about her social circle, she comes up against a paradox: techno parties are spaces of freedom, the only ones where she does not feel judged, but which leave her perplexed about the lack of depth of the connections that exist there. form. What binds her to these people she loves at the time of“a trace of 3-MMC”a euphoric synthetic drug, it is “the desire to escape” through music, drugs, far from a society in which she does not feel very comfortable.

Arriving in Paris after the baccalaureate to study communication, the 24-year-old from Bordeaux, who defines herself as pansexual, works in a thrift store. Passionate about fashion and partying, she carefully chooses her outfits before each outing. Dressed in black, latex or sequins, Coco likes to be « too much » et « sexy »on 10 centimeters of heels.

The first time she went to a queer club was also the first time she saw “people embrace their style” and that she was not “a UFO.” The freedom to be oneself while respecting others is what his favorite techno collective, Sœurs unhealthys, claims. Resolutely political, this group of feminist and LGBT artists mixes in different cities in France and legendary clubs, such as La Machine du Moulin Rouge, in Paris.

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