anti-surrogacy feminist activist bursts onto the red carpet

CANNES FESTIVAL – In the precise protocol of the Cannes Film Festival, this irruption on the red carpet was particularly noticed this Wednesday, May 17.

After 10 p.m., during the climb of the steps of the (controversial) film by French director Catherine Corsini The returnan activist from the feminist and radical group SCUMs took to the red carpet to flaunt her baby bump and the message ” surrogate mother “ Or “surrogacy” (in English) above a barcode.

The feminist group then published their motivations on their Instagram account. It was for him to “denouncing surrogacy, which is closely linked to the film industry”.

Surrogacy “ is neither an individual process nor a lifestyle choice, but a production system orchestrated by companies, involving lawyers and laboratories. It is rooted in capitalist ideology as well as in the international human trafficking market. The products sold are newborns, the means of production are the bodies of their mothers.continues the group.

Last year, a message about the rapes in Ukraine

“Reducing women to a reproductive system also negates our individuality, our subjectivity. We choose to portray this threat through the colors imposed on women of strength assigned to a reproductive role in Margaret Atwood’s tale, ‘The Handmaiden Scarlet’.writes SCUMs again.

In France, surrogacy is prohibited, but the recognition of a child born by surrogacy abroad remains possible.

The activist is not at his first attempt in Cannes. Last year, she had already burst onto the red carpet topless and painted in the colors of Ukraine with the inscription “Stop Raping Us” (“Stop raping us”), to denounce the accusations of rape brought against Russian soldiers in Ukraine.

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