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Let’s rethink the way we gather.
A bimonthly event series at the edge of culture and sociology.
📍Paris
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Friday, June 26, 2026 at @lacaserneparis

To close out our second season, we gathered on the eve of a canceled Pride to ask some difficult questions: What happens when queer spaces close? And what are the material conditions that make these spaces possible in the first place, or eventually make them impossible to sustain?

For Le MEETUP 11 (ARE YOU PROUD?), we looked at queer gathering through two very different cultural objects, tracing the relationship between space, desire, community, precarity, and belonging.

Objects considered:
- Wildness by Wu Tsang (2012)
- "Is the Rectum a Grave?" by Leo Bersani (1987)

Thank you, as always, to @lacaserneparis for hosting us, to @aziz.psd for snapping pics, and to everyone who joined us to close out a beautiful second season of rethinking the way we gather.

#lemeetup by @lemeetup

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Tune in today at 4pm on Rinse France for a debrief of what happened during Le MEETUP 11, in conversation with @la__chadepretty, @hadriensotto, and @tamayasapeytriomphe taken in Paris, France by @lemeetup

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3 months ago

Friday, May 29, 2026 at @iciconversation

We are legible bodies, constantly misread. Le MEETUP 10 (CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?) sat with what happens when language speaks us before we speak it, shaping what we can think, what we can feel, what we can say. Together, we excavated the edits we make to be understood, and what we bury in the process.

Objects considered:
- What our language habits reveal by Steven Pinker
- What is code switching by Benjamin Abiola

Thank you to everyone for braving the heat and to @iciconversation for hosting us.

Link in bio to sign up for our newsletter and stay up-to-date on future up. taken in Paris, France by @lemeetup

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Communication begins with good intentions. But something always gets lost. You say something. They hear something else. A sentence lands somewhere you never meant it to. Your accent speaks before you do. Your silence speaks sometimes far more than words ever could.

📞 If the phone rings, will you pick up?

Send this to someone you’ve never quite been able to reach.

LE MEETUP #10: Can You Hear Me Now?
Friday May 29 • 19:30–23:30
La Maison de la Conversation, Paris 18
RSVP via link in bio. Spots are limited.
#lemeetup taken in La maison de la Conversation by @lemeetup

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Friday, March 20, 2026 at @lacaserneparis

Le MEETUP 9 (WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE?) examined the architecture of conviction. How verdicts are prepared long before a sentence is pronounced, how empathy is unevenly distributed, and how the same facts, differently framed, produced different outcomes.

We put that to the test. 30 people. Two juries. One case. Diverging framings.

What followed was the real conversation: about instinct and persuasion, about who receives context and who is reduced to their act, about punishment, repair, and who gets to decide.

Objects considered:
- Saint Omer (2022) by #alicediop
- An excerpt from a French criminal hearing

Thank you to @pep.ito.75 for co-hosting this edition and to @lacaserneparis for hosting us.

Link in bio to sign up for the newsletter and stay up-to-date on future editions. taken in La Caserne by @lemeetup

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6 months ago

Saturday, January 31, 2026 at @ecolejeanninemanuel

Le MEETUP 8 (WHO EVEN ARE YOU?) traced adolescence as a structure that lingers, shaping how we desire, perform, attach, and misrecognize ourselves well into adulthood. We explored adolescence as a site of projection, discipline, fantasy, and control: something pathologized, romanticized, endlessly mined by culture, yet rarely listened to on its own terms. Through film, theory, and collective exchange, we asked what it means to grow up, and what never quite does.

Objects considered:
- Mean Girls (2004)
- Françoise Dolto’s Complexe du homard (2018)
- Thoughts and Prayers (2025) by Zackery Canepari and Jessica Dimmock

Thank you to @adadeschanel for co-hosting this edition with us.

Link in bio to sign up for the newsletter and stay up-to-date on future events!

#lemeetup #parisevents #teenage #meangirls #adolescence taken in École Jeannine Manuel by @lemeetup

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8 months ago

🎉Join us on Friday, December 19!
An informal evening to celebrate the year and everything we’ve accomplished as a group and as an organization.

Whether you’ve joined us at one of our events before or have been meaning to come, we’d love to meet you. RSVP link in bio.

Where? @lagencebar
What time? From 19h30

Come as you are. Drinks available for purchase at the bar. taken in Paris, France by @lemeetup

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10 months ago

Friday, November 21, 2025 at Michael’s apartment.

Le MEETUP 7 (Are we safe here?) explored how safe spaces come into being, what it takes to sustain them, how labor circulates within them, and how their structures shape and redistribute affect.
We turned to outdoor spaces, online communities, and spaces born from identitarian projects to understand what safety makes possible, and for whom.

Objects considered:
- Scarves over headscarves by Giovanna dell’Orto for @apnews
- Beyond the Talk: Deja Foxx on finding alternative online spaces for @ted
- Sur la non-mixité FLINTA by @frictionmagazinefr

Thank you to all the participants, familiar and new faces, for an evening of honest exchange on topics that aren’t so easy to deconstruct.

#lemeetup #parisevent #safespace taken in Paris, France by @lemeetup

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ARE WE SAFE HERE?
Safety isn’t given. It’s made. It’s born from refusal: shelters against violence, riots against injustice, sanctuaries against persecution.

To call a space “safe” is never neutral. It draws lines: who is seen, who enters, on what terms. Safety lives in infrastructure, language, and culture. Each leaves its mark on the body it claims to protect.

Safety is also bodily. The click of a lock, the dimming of a light, the spacing of chairs. Comfort, safety, and freedom don’t always align. For some, safety can even feel strange.

Boundaries protect, but they can also police. Still, some harms require distance, pause, or space.

Le MEETUP 7 turns toward these tensions. What does it mean to call a space “safe” today? Who makes that claim? And who pays its cost?

Friday, November 21, 2025. RSVP link in bio.

#lemeetup #paris #safespace taken in Paris, France by @lemeetup

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a year ago

Friday, September 12, 2025 at L’Hôpital La Pitié-Salpêtrière.

MEETUP 6 explored what it means to “be well.” To say, “I’m fine,” when you’re not. To ask “are you ok?” knowing there’s no simple answer. Together, we redefined health in our own words, compared it to the WHO’s definition, and tried inhabiting both sides of care: doctor, patient, observer. Inside the Pitié-Salpêtrière, vulnerability became a structure. We practiced intimacy: being listened to, being seen, exposing ourselves without knowing how we’d be received. In that choreography, trust began to circulate. For a night, the group became something like a support system.

Objects considered:
- Orlando, ma biographie politique by @officialpaulbpreciado
- Les Cent Ans de Frantz Fanon, France Culture
- Passport Photos by @maxsiedentopf

Special thanks to @y.tmz for co-hosting and @arthit_lorenzo for the photos. taken in Paris, France by @lemeetup

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Friday, April 11, 2025 at @thewindowparis

MEETUP 5 asked what’s left of intimacy when dating becomes performance—an endless stream of profiles, gestures, and curated selves. We offered something else: no names, no filters, no algorithm. Just a room, a pause, and the discomfort of not knowing. Together, we sat with identity unspoken, memory unstructured, desire without direction. In a world obsessed with clarity and control, we chose opacity. Not to escape, but to make space for the unknown to speak.

Objects considered:
- Le fragment d’un discours amoureux by Roland Barthes
- L’utopie du corps by Michel Foucault
- Les petites annonces de Vidéomaton
- Chérie, je t’aime from Libération

Thank you to all the participants, to @alaisdiop for co-hosting, to @thewindowparis and @lesyeuxlabouche for having us, and to @lenaelmone for feeding us.

#lemeetup #art #events #dating #love taken in The Window by @lemeetup

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FESTIVAL: TRANCHE DE VIE #3 07-11.04.2025

Tranche de vie est un festival imaginé par Catherine Baÿ (@catherine.bay.562) pendant la pandémie de 2020.
Il interroge les frontières entre l’espace privé et l’espace public, l’intime et le collectif. Entre une coupe architecturale et un moment de vie, la « tranche de vie » bouscule les frontières et vous invite à faire de même.

-PROGRAMME-

Les 7 et 8 Avril
«CACHE-CACHE»
DÎNER PERFORMATIF
@lesyeuxlabouche @adadeschanel @catherine.bay.562 @fhfrancetheatre

Le 9 Avril
«AUTOUR DE LA TABLE»
SOIRÉE PERFORMANCE
@catherine.bay.562 @fhfrancetheatre

Le 11 Avril
«ON SE DATE ?»
RENDEZ-VOUS #5
@lemeetup

(Plus d’infos >> @lesyeuxlabouche @lemeetup )

📍 @thewindowparis
Identité visuelle: @mademoisellesanspapiers taken in The Window by @lemeetup

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