It has been just over one month since readers have been lending their time and attention to the stories of the inspiring, hard-working, ambitious, dedicated, and brilliant women in The New Parisienne and I’m overjoyed by the feedback you all have shared with me.
I wanted this book to give a voice to women who may not be used to telling their stories publicly, to women whose stories need to reach far beyond French borders, once and for all, to women who may be unknown and quietly disrupting industry and norms and shaping society for the future, and to women who I felt confident would inspire readers as much as they inspire me.
The timing of these stories is, strangely, perfect. To be sure, women’s rights, racial and social justice, and gender equality are not going to suddenly become issues of the past overnight simply because we are talking about them openly and ferociously. There is much work to be done but I hope this moment, undistracted from “normal”, business-as-usual life, will be the start of LASTING change and that my book can be a helpful part of that conversation and the path to greater understanding.
I also hope that those of you who have been enjoying the book and have connected with the women in its pages can feel connected to them off the page: online and through their work! To facilitate that, I’ve shared links below to their websites and social media handles so that you can follow along.
LES FEMMES
Photographer: Joann Pai
Illustrator: Agathe Singer
The Activists
Rokhaya Diallo
Instagram / Twitter
Lauren Bastide
La Poudre Podcast / Instagram
Elisa Rojas
Twitter
Rebecca Amsellem
Les Glorieuses / Twitter
Clémence Zamora-Cruz
Twitter / InterLGBT
The Creators
Aline Asmar d’Amman
Culture in Architecture / Instagram
Elena Rossini
Film work / Twitter
Inna Modja
Instagram / The Great Green Wall
Amélie Viaene
Fine jewelry / Instagram
Ajiri Aki
Madame de la Maison / Instagram
Victoire de Taillac
L’Officine Universelle Buly / Instagram
The Disruptors
Anne Hidalgo
Instagram / Twitter / City of Paris
Christelle Delarue
Les Lionnes / Instagram
Sarah Zouak
Lallab / Instagram / Facebook
Delphine Horvilleur
Twitter / Tenou’a
Dr. Ghada Hatem-Gantzer
La Maison des Femmes / Instagram
Sarah Ourahmoune
Boxer Inside / Instagram
The Storytellers
Ariane Bernard
Website
Heidi Evans
Women of Paris tours / Instagram
Leïla Slimani
Books / Instagram
Sarah Sauquet
A Text A Day / Twitter / Instagram
Nathalie Miltat
Appartement 27bis
Poonam Chawla
Taste of Chalindia / YouTube / Instagram
The Tastemakers
Mihaela Iordache
Belleville Brûlerie / Instagram
Muriel Tallandier
Fou de Pâtisserie / Instagram
Julie Mathieu
Fou de Pâtisserie / Instagram
Myriam Sabet
Maison Aleph / Instagram
Margot Lecarpentier
Combat / Instagram
Moko Hirayama
Mokonuts / Mokoloco
The Visionaries
Alice Cabaret
The Street Society
Rahaf Harfoush
Work / Books / Twitter
Sandra Rey
Glowee / Linked In
Kat Borlongan
La French Tech / Twitter
Nida Januskis
INSEAD / Linked In
Anne Ravanona
Global Invest Her / Twitter
‘Their Paris’ women
Sarah Andelman
Just an Idea / Instagram
Eliane Cheung
Illustrations / Instagram
Benedicte Reitzel-Nielsen
See My Paris / WanderWonders
Céline Pham
Website / Instagram
Emilie Franzo
Plus Une Miette / Instagram
Order the book!
If you’d like to order a copy, here are a few options:
Order the audio book (narrated by me): Audible
Order from North America retailers// Barnes & Noble // Bookshop.org // Books are Magic // Indiebound // Indigo // Amazon //
Order from the UK: Waterstones
Order from/pick-up in Paris: Shakespeare & Co, OFR, Merci, The Red Wheelbarrow, Galignani
Order from Australia:Booktopia
Order from Anywhere: Book Depository
