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What if we made room for friends?

We find time for a couple and plan space for family. Friendship often fits into what remains. Three works examine its place in a life, the words we exchange and the families we build.

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01 · Nos puissantes amitiés

Take friendship seriously

Alice Raybaud investigates living, making families and growing old with friends. Her engaged argument provides a starting point for thinking about what you want to build together and leaves room for discussion.

Alice Raybaud

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02 · Fracas

Hear the words that remain

Les petites phrases in the Fracas archives revisits words that stay with people. The connection to friendship is our editorial choice: the series is not solely about friends.

Created by Charlotte Pudlowski

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03 · Quouïr

Change the family model

Accounts of coming out, same-sex parenting and rejection offer other family histories after the questions about friendship. Subjects and tones vary; choose a season before beginning.

Rozenn Le Carboulec

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A question to keep

Who has a place in your plans beyond the next night out?

You can keep this to yourself or discuss it. NUIT does not collect an answer here.

Another direction

We love each other. What do we expect?

A couple rarely arrives without baggage: ideas about fidelity, each person’s role and what a successful relationship should look like. Three ways to open the subject.

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The words we use in bed.

Consent, normality, expectations: we use these words without always giving them the same meaning. Two essays offer different ways to examine them.

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Lives we see too rarely.

From a Catskills house’s archives to older generations’ memories of love, this path brings together identities and relationships across different periods.

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We share everything. Even the bill?

Paying rent, organising groceries, finding time: shared life also happens in material details. Three works connect money with the expectations surrounding couples.

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Where do we learn to love?

Recognising a love story in a film can be quick. Saying what we expect from our own relationship may take longer. An essay, documentary voices and Mona Chollet offer three beginnings.

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Being visible. On whose terms?

Telling your story, publishing an essay, appearing on screen: visibility takes different forms. Four works change format and context without treating lesbian, gay and trans experiences as interchangeable.

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