Alice Coffin

Alice Coffin (; born April 29, 1978) is a French journalist, feminist, lesbian activist and politician. She was elected to the Council of Paris in 2020. She is affiliated to the political party Europe Ecology – The Greens, without being a member of this party.

In 2020, she published ''Le Génie lesbien'' (''The Lesbian Genius''). In the book, she makes a case for women to banish men and masculine culture from their lives

Controversy

In her 2020 essay ''Le Génie lesbien'' (''The Lesbian Genius'') Coffin urges women to eradicate men from their lives. She says she
considered titling the essay ‘misandre’ (man-hater) and claims misandry to be integral part of her feminism.

After the first round of the 2022 French Presidential Election, Alice Coffin denounced "political mediocrity" within the Green Party, and voiced the opinion that their candidate Yannick Jadot "had screwed up".

Biography

She joined the feminist group La Barbe in 2010 and created the Association de journalistes LGBT along with other colleagues in 2013.https://www.ouest-france.fr/societe/famille/feminisme/portrait-alice-coffin-elue-ecolo-a-paris-assume-son-feminisme-radical-7002953 '' Ouest-France'' (in French)

In June 2020, she was elected to the Council of Paris for the centre-left-to-left green political party Europe Ecology – The Greens.

Publications

* (fr) ''Le Génie lesbien'' (''The Lesbian Genius''), Grasset, 2020

References

1978 births
Living people
Politicians from Toulouse
Lesbian journalists
French LGBT journalists
French women journalists
Europe Ecology – The Greens politicians
21st-century French LGBT people
French lesbian politicians
French lesbian writers
Councillors of Paris
Writers from Toulouse
Fulbright alumni
French feminists
Radical feminists
Misandry

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