Switzerland

A «third sex» in the civil register? Not so fast

By Jonas Follonier · May 17, 2024

Saturday's victory in the Eurovision Song Contest by Swiss artist Nemo, who defines herself as non-binary, has revived the idea of registering a «third gender» in the civil register. In reality, it's a false good idea.

History

Sex, a political object?

By Olivier Meuwly · 05 September 2022

DOSSIER «LE SEXE SANS COMPLEXE» | The French historian René Rémond, who died in 2007, summed up the answer to this question in a shocking formula: sex, he wrote in 1987, entered politics in 1968! Does this aphorism imply that sex and politics, prior to that date, lived in separate spheres, intersecting only in the private lives of political actors and actresses?

Literature

Max Lobe's literary orgy

By Jonas Follonier · 12 January 2021

He publishes "The Promise of His Phall'Excellence"."

Philosophy

Dare to talk about non-mixity at school

By Loris S. Musumeci · 02 February 2020

The single-sex school: a hot topic rehabilitated by researchers Jean-Baptiste Noé and Jean-David Ponci in a four-handed book. Interview with the latter.