Paris

WOMEN: Lesbians are the heroes of Diana Souham's book. It is about the development of French modernism. Lesbian women in the early 1900th century were interested in developing, contributing to, and supporting literary modernism in an attempt to break with patriarchy. Paris was like an asylum for sexual refugees.

ESSAY: Most Surrealists had participated in the First World War, André Breton and Louis Aragon, for example, were sent to the front as medical students on the French side, and Max Ernst was an artilleryman in the German army. The senseless trench warfare endowed the Surrealists with an intense hatred of the ideals to which the warring parties referred. The plan was to initiate the necessary dismantling of the basic categories of the capitalist mode of production such as profit and wage labor, but also art and literature as activities reserved for a few selected individuals.

Forum: Urbanism is often about building bridges and removing contradictions. Here are some examples from the World Forum in Katowice, Poland, of how cities can safeguard women's safety and security

activism: The French rebel police's handling of protesters has led to a dramatic change in attitudes of students at a high school on the outskirts of Paris.

Our humanity is gradually wiped out as security measures increase.