NUIT · Thematic path
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.
Follow the works in whichever order you prefer.
01 · Le Cœur sur la table
Start with a story
This documentary podcast is a way in if you prefer listening to accounts before taking up an essay. It also discusses friendship and family: choose an episode whose subject concerns you.
Created by Victoire Tuaillon · Binge Audio
Read our introduction · Official presentation02 · Les sentiments du prince Charles
Go through drawing
Liv Strömquist examines romantic roles through comics. Popular-culture references give social questions a concrete form. Choose it for a drawn format with an openly feminist perspective.
Liv Strömquist
Read our introduction · Official presentation03 · Réinventer l’amour
Take time to read
Mona Chollet examines patriarchal norms in heterosexual relationships. That scope is specific; it does not claim to cover every way of loving. It can begin a discussion of the expectations each person brings.
Mona Chollet
Read our introduction · Official presentationA question to keep
Which expectation in a relationship feels obvious to you, and where did it come from?
You can keep this to yourself or discuss it. NUIT does not collect an answer here.
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