MONTREAL —
A gaggle of Universite de Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) college students are calling hypocrisy after the college made strikes to sue a pupil for posting suggestive images of herself on social media with the college’s emblem.
PhD college students Cato Fortin and Stephanie Roussel started a response marketing campaign by posting photos of themselves in lingerie with UQAM’s emblem and their levels within the pictures together with the hashtag #papauqam in assist of Helene Boudreau, the scholar being sued.
Boudreau operates an Onlyfans account, an internet site the place customers create grownup content material for subscribers. She is alleged to have used the UQAM imagery within the account.
Fortin and Roussel have acquired grants and been praised for his or her work on intercourse staff and had been appalled to see the college reply to Boudreau’s image with a risk to sue.
“She does what we write about, and when somebody does it, as a substitute of learning it, it looks like there’s an issue,” stated Fortin. “We receives a commission actually good cash to jot down this, and it appeared actually hypocritical to us to get all this cash and recognition whereas somebody like Helene Boudreau doesn’t get it.”
“UQAM, this college that’s supposedly inclusive and proud to be half of what’s referred to as ‘social mobility,’ is dear, and you must work to get in should you’re not a health care provider’s child,” stated Roussel on Instagram. “Intercourse work is a decent job. Intercourse staff are additionally generally college students and graduates of UQAM, maybe future professors, writers, biologists, attorneys.”
The #papauqam motion shortly caught on.
Alice Rivard posted an image of herself in lingerie together with her UQAM diploma and referred to as the lawsuit unfair.
“UQAM’s lawsuit in opposition to Helene Boudreau is unfair, hypocritical, and damaging to intercourse staff,” stated Rivard. “Intercourse work is figure. Some UQAM college students had been and are intercourse staff.”
Rivard graduated with honours in each her undergraduate and graduate levels and have acquired grants for her educational work.
She additionally labored as knowledgeable dominatrix to assist pay for her education.
“We’re not undeserving of dignity due to the best way we use our our bodies,” she stated. “UQAM can not use our successes for their very own promotion after which provoke a lawsuit for an image from a intercourse employee. Some academics have been denounced as abusers and UQAM didn’t sue them or fireplace them.”
Alice Rivard labored as knowledgeable dominatrix whereas pursuing undergraduate and graduate levels at UQAM, and is looking the college’s lawsuit in opposition to a pupil violent, unfair and damaging to intercourse staff. SOURCE: Alice Rivard
Rivard added that she doesn’t assist every little thing Boudreau does mentioning her assist on social media of some tattoo artists who had been denounced as abusers throughout the #metoo motion.
“I, we, don’t assist these actions. We consider victims,” stated Rivard.
Fortin additionally acknowledged Boudreau’s actions in relation to the tattoo artists and the hardship it triggered to any victims of the alleged abuse.
Boudreau advised CTV Information that she didn’t have a touch upon the lawsuit or the #papauqam response in the intervening time.
She labored as a tattoo artist earlier than doing Onlyfans.
In response to the UQAM lawsuit, it’s alleged that Boudreau gave an interview to the newspaper 24 Heures, by which she stated she earns upwards of $20,000 per thirty days from her content material.
No matter how a lot she makes for her work, these supporting her really feel UQAM is out of line in attacking her, significantly within the present local weather.
“I discovered it actually clumsy particularly on this time the place there’s been eight girls killed within the final eight weeks,” stated sexologist Amelie Bouchard, who took half within the marketing campaign in assist of Boudreau. “I actually did not perceive why they had been suing this woman.”
Sexologist Amelie Bouchard considers herself an agent of change and as somebody who works with intercourse staff and marginalized teams she feels she has “a accountability as knowledgeable to assist them.” SOURCE: Amelie Bouchard.
Quebec has seen a dramatic rise in violence in opposition to girls throughout the pandemic, and Fortin pointed to a number of high-profile instances the place a intercourse employee was abused or killed, similar to Marylene Levesque, who was killed in 2020.
“For me, in addition to displaying assist for intercourse staff — and ladies basically — it was a fantastic alternative to make clear how hypocritical and incohesive that lawsuit is,” stated former UQAM literature pupil Stephanie Paquet. “It’s fairly infuriating to see l’UQAM make investments a lot time, power and cash into such a small matter whereas they’ve been avoiding addressing some main points that participate inside their partitions concerning sexual harassment.”
A number of allegations have been made in opposition to faculty employees, together with once in 2014, and again in 2017. Members of UQAM’s college had been additionally named in 2020 throughout a wave of sexual assault and harrassment allegations, one thing Paquet says she is aware of of firsthand.
The lawsuit, for Rivard, is “violent, unfair and damaging to intercourse staff.”
Fortin stated a advantageous arts pupil like Boudreau is accustomed to expressing herself ought to be allowed to have company over how she displays on her work or her physique.
“It is reinforcing the virgin-whore dichotomy,” stated Fortin. “It appears you can’t be an mental, you can’t be a valued a part of the UQAM neighborhood in case you are additionally considerably a sexual individual.”
Fortin referred to as herself a boring mother, and didn’t need to pose in her underwear to make a degree, however felt rewarded when intercourse staff reached out in assist.
“I do not prefer to be in underwear on the Web, it is my first time,” she stated. “I felt I had to do that. I am doing this in solidarity… We’re weaponizing our our bodies to assist them (intercourse staff). I am glad about that.”
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