FILE. From Angela Davis to Virginie Despentes, subversive publications by necessity for the editor Marion Mazauric, at Diable vauvert

Marion Mazauric: “My mother and grandmother were feminists”. Midi Libre – MICHAEL ESDOURRUBAILH

Founder of the publishing house Au diable vauvert, Marion Mazauric from Gard defends a committed and militant feminism.

“The sexocide of witches” by Françoise d'Eaubonne, pioneer of ecofeminism, published by Diable vauvert. “The exquisite body” by the “trans” author Poppy Z. Brite, again by Diable vauvert. And Octavia Butler, “founding voice of Afrofeminism twenty years before Black Lives Matter”, at Diable vauvert too.

“Feminism is part of the editorial policy, the counterculture, at the source of the creation of the publishing house, in Vauvert, in 2000. Because feminism is subversive, like gender issues, trans, LGPBT +, stories of blacks and PD”, cash book Marion Mazauric, founder of “Le Diable” who also entrusted Elise Thiebaut, author of “Ceci est mon temps”, published in 2024, on menopause, the “feminist” collection of her house.

Subversion, a line of conduct without deviation when “more consensual things are not interesting”, also involves the defense of bullfighting, even if “it can seem contradictory, I am both a feminist and an aficionado.” The bullfighter Lea Vicens is in the catalog. And, for a long time now, pop culture and climate change, before it became a daily news story.

“We started very quickly with a comic strip by Virginie Despentes”

“We started very quickly with a comic strip by Virginie Despentes that has become a cult” (“Trois étoiles”, illustrated by Nora Hamdi, on rape), and “an autobiography by Coralie Trinh Thi, “La voix humide”, the first porn star”, she remembers.

Then “in the first five years, Angela Davis was published, the first to think together about the dominations of race, class, and gender”, and the underground artist Lydia Lunch, “who is interested in desire, porn, and the feminine”. recalls Marion Mazauric. In 2003, “Contraception, mode d’emploi”, by Martin Winckler.

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In 2025, it will be “The countersexual manifesto” by the Spanish philosopher Paul Preciado, “a deconstruction of the construction of the masculine”. The book has been “blocked for fifteen years by a translation problem”, says Marion Mazauric.

The criticism has not always followed: “I was told but why feminism? Women have the right to vote, no? Among the elites, it was not a subject. So, today, no, I cannot be accused of “feminism washing”.

Others are excellent at the exercise, to keep up with the times.

When women were not not business leaders or airline pilots

Born in 1960 “at a time when women did not become airline pilots or business leaders”, Marion Mazauric, raised by “free women” but “of their time”, a communist activist mother, a union activist grandmother, was very quickly “scandalized by the fatality of gender”, and “swore to herself, as a child, two or three things”, “not to give up my life as a woman” and “not to limit myself to certain professions”. In the course, “everything is very coherent”.

Even more so when you “call yourself Mario” until you are 14 years old, and “you probably suffer from gender dysphoria. I was a tomboy”, remembers the woman from Gard, married to a professional forester who became a “stay-at-home mom” to raise their son: “it shows that it's possible! But if it hadn't been him, I might have stayed single or I might have even lived with a woman”.

The re-election of Donald Trump and the noises of the current world remind us, she says, that the gains are fragile: “I had always thought that going back was not possible, but no!”

And then there is the Mazan rape trial: “Women have started working, they are educated, they open their mouths… there have been profound structural changes. But with this trial, we see that there are centuries of education to be redone, it is dizzying. That is why it is always necessary to be subversive”.