Anaïs Bourdet
Anaïs Bourdet (born 21 November 1984) is a French feminist activist, against street harassment and the rape culture. In 2012, she created the Tumblr Paye ta shnek. From 2012 to 2019, the blog collected more than 15,000 testimonials, from female victims of street harassment. Her initiative predated the #MeToo movement. Life Anaïs Bourdet grew up in Lambesc, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. She graduated from ECV Aix-en-Provence in 2010, and moved to Marseille. From 2013 to 2016, she lived in Argentina, before returning to settle in Marseille. She is a freelance graphic designer, graphic design teacher, and was part of the 5M4 collective. In February 2016, she protested against the abolition of anti-harassment and gender-based violence measures in the Senate in the transport safety bill. After an op-ed written with the collective Féministes par Inadvertance published in L'Express, a petition which collected more than 65,000 signatures. She contributed to a poster campaign. A commission reintroduced the article 22 of the law, which finally passed. In 2017, she testified at the National Assembly on the importance of an intersectional approach to analyzing sexist attacks, after noting among the testimonies received by Paye ta Shnek those concerning attacks that were not only sexist but