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QUÉBEC, le 3 juin 2022 /CNW Telbec/ - L'Assemblée nationale du Québec a adopté à l'unanimité aujourd'hui le projet de loi numéro 35, Loi visant à moderniser et à harmoniser les règles relatives au statut professionnel de l'artiste, déposé par la ministre...

''À partir d'octobre 2017, #MeToo devient un phénomène mondial, en diffusant internationalement le slogan que Tarana Burke, militante new-yorkaise contre les violences sexuelles, avait lancé dix ans plus tôt. Une multitude de victimes témoignent sur divers supports numériques et médiatiques, reformulant et intensifiant des luttes féministes en cours contre les violences sexistes. À l'initiative d'une nouvelle génération de chercheuses et chercheurs francophones sur les violences de genre, ce premier ouvrage académique en France sur #MeToo cherche à comprendre l'événement. Il propose une approche empirique de ce mouvement mondial. Il décrypte d'abord l'événement #MeToo dans sa matérialité, ses contextes de réception et d'appropriation et s'efforce de montrer comment l'usage des réseaux socionumériques permet d'articuler de nouvelles formes de militantisme ou de renforcer des pratiques militantes existantes en ligne et hors ligne. Il inscrit ensuite #MeToo dans une histoire des luttes féministes de plus long terme et s'efforce de questionner son unité à travers l'étude de ses résonances contrastées dans différents milieux professionnels.''-- Site de l'éditeur

Theatrical dance remains widely perceived as an unconventional activity for boys and young men in many Western contexts. This chapter focuses on professional male dancers’ pathways into recreational, pre-professional dance and assesses the various obstacles encountered and the sources of encouragement available to continue dancing and to pursue a dance career. Data analysis challenges the assumption that homophobia and hierarchies among boys, men, and masculinities have been erased. The chapter argues that wider systems of inequality, oppression, and power persist. These continue to affect boys and young men, influencing their choices and the possibilities to transgress gender norms.

Sexual harassment continues to be a problem that most commonly affects women in the United States workforce today. While there are legal and organizational remedies available, most of these mechanisms for redress only exist for workers in traditional employeremployee contexts. Independent contractors, self-employed workers who represent a growing number of labor force participants in this economy, can therefore only use informal means of addressing sexual harassment. This study used grounded theory methods to analyze 88 separate narratives of sexual harassment from 70 fashion models, an overwhelmingly female set of independent contractors currently operating in the American economy. The aim of the analysis was to understand the mix and meaning behind the use of informal strategies—more specifically confrontation versus non-confrontation—in response to this sexual harassment. Notably, models most often confronted the perpetrators of harassment. Critically, however, those models who chose non-confrontation did not minimize the abuse that they faced. Instead, they either saw themselves as powerless or engaged in self-blame when faced with harassment on the job.

The esports, or competitive video gaming, industry is an exciting area of economic and cultural growth. Gaming can facilitate interpersonal connection, shared problem-solving, and creativity. Players may purchase a game, watch a streamer play it online, join an online gaming community, attend a tournament, compete professionally, or find employment in game development or a related field. The gaming industry generates enormous economic value and employs tens of thousands of people in the UK alone. However, the esports sector does not extend its benefits equally. Women are regularly verbally harassed in video games, countless women have been groped at esports events, women have been raped by professional players, underage fans have been groomed. Abuse is endemic to online gaming communities.

Phenomena of inappropriate behaviour and harassment are neither new nor unique to the cultural domain. However, these phenomena have not been largely publicly discussed before the 2017 me too movement, presumably due to the culture of silence prominent within the cultural domain. After the movement that started from the film industry and quickly spread around the world, discussion on ethical working conditions has arisen within all the cultural domain as well. This qualitative driven mixed methods research reviews the current situation of inappropriate behaviour and harassment in Finland and seeks to understand the magnitude and forms of the phenomena. The research questions are: 1) What special characteristics or structures in the arts and culture field enable inappropriate behaviour and harassment or the possibility of them? And 2) What can be done to eliminate inappropriate behaviour and harassment from arts and culture workplaces? The research questions are answered analyzing research data collected using a survey and six themed interviews. Research data was collected in the spring of 2021. Topics that surfaced from the survey were used as a basis for the interview questions. Findings from the survey and the interviews act as the thematical scope of this master’s thesis, as they are the most important themes to come out of this research. The main findings of the thesis are that there are four elements that enable and maintain the improper working culture within the cultural domain. The elements are insufficient funding, poor management, artist myth, and limitlessness of the work. These themes are examined in discussion with literature. The four steps this thesis suggests helping uproot the improper behaviour in the cultural domain according to the research data and literature are 1) Pushing for the cultural domain’s ethical board to be established, 2) Composing ethical guidelines for all the cultural domain, 3) Basing funding on following the said guidelines, and 4. Talking about improper behaviour publicly and bringing cases of misconduct forward.

This chapter provides a contextual account of the rise of #MeToo as an global gender-equality campaign supporting those affected by sexual transgressions. Originally articulated by African-American civil rights activist Tarana Burke in 2006, the slogan ‘me too’ was meant as a rallying cry to support young minority ethic survivors of sexual abuse. Years later, social media would turn Burke’s motto into a byword for the global #MeToo movement. The chapter chronicles the events surrounding #MeToo’s inception, including Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual exploitation scandal in 2017, and The New York Times and The New Yorker exposés of his serial offending within the film industry. It also examines the narratives of countless survivors and #MeToo campaigners, including high-profile cases such as those of Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano, Mimi Haleyi, Jessica Mann and Zelda Perkins. The chapter then critically considers the growth and international significance of #MeToo as well as its inherent shortcomings.

A few pioneers have shown the way, but who will follow?

The study is a history project and is concerned with tracking the impact of #MeToo in the South African Film and Television industry in South Africa. Its main premise were the findings made public by a South African organization, Sisters Working in Film and Television (SWIFT) in 2017, that found that sexual harassment in the television and film industry was not just a norm but a crisis. The core focus of the study was on the development and impact of the #MeToo movement, which entailed investigating the manner in which women reacted to the hashtag (#MeToo), the reaction of their male counterparts, as well as the reaction and actions taken by the various bodies, institutions and organisations in the Film and Television industry, which included; broadcasters and production houses alike. This study begins by giving a concise background of the movement by firstly, historicising various female-led movements and comparing and contrasting them with the rise of digital movements or digital activism. The historicisation involves a brief comparison of past and present women-led activism, as well as a brief review of other hashtags like #AmINext and #Enough, on which #MeToo has had an influence. It goes on to investigate the development of #MeToo movement and to discuss the responses of the industry and individuals to the movement. The study embarked on a data collection quest by interviewing eleven female television and film practitioners in South Africa. Their ages ranged from 20 to 55. The findings of the research revealed that female practitioners were still being harassed post #MeToo, although subtly. The lack of unity amongst women in the sector was cited as one of the reasons behind the ongoing harassment. Gender parity and equity was also still lacking in the South African television and film industry. This study emerged in the midst of activism and scholarship seeking to unravel the norms of South African sexual harassment and rape culture against women. Thus, the study focused on the changes and transformations brought about by the hashtag within the industry. With South Africa’s historical background and the current circumstances around Gender Based Violence (GBV), this study was concerned with tracking whether or not digital activism had in some way been able to aid change and transformation. In particular, this study looked at the impact of the MeToo phenomenon on the women in the industry, the extent to which it empowered them, what they began to say and how they began to act. The study also explored South Africa’s ‘rape culture’ as South Africa has been proclaimed the ‘worlds rape capital’. It reflected on the colonial rule as the perpetuation of patriarchy and male entitlement over female bodies. Patriarchy in the industry was also confirmed by the findings and through data analysis, as one of the key factors in the emergence of #MeToo in South Africa, and in the utilisation of the hashtag by women in the sector to speak up against sexual harassment.