Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial, plus how our cities lost their shade

09/10/2025 54 min
Inside the Gisele Pelicot trial, plus how our cities lost their shade

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One of the 51 men convicted men of raping French woman Gisele Pelicot is appealing his conviction, arguing he didn’t know that she hadn’t given her consent. While French feminists argue consent should be explicitly included in French law, philosopher and author Manon Garcia says cultural understandings of consent, addressing patterns of violence and shoring up support in our criminal and civil courts are more important. Plus, why are our cities and towns devoid of any shade?  

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