U. rumors
everywhere you hear
a fear of trans and homos
and lesbians and gays
and non-binary people
you hear that it is
a grave danger
for society that
kids are contaminated
by a form of sexual ideology it is
as if a moral panic was spreading
on language-machine platforms
such as “people don’t make
babies anymore, who will
care for us” (two of my
colleagues at the university
actually told me so this year)
“kids are contaminated by trans
ideology, it is criminal”
“gays are terrorists
let’s fight terrorists”
in the 50s it was called
lavender scare it’s coming
back

V. instructions
look and record
prepare a field recording in a random street
sit down and note down what you see and hear

W. field recording #1 – (Toulouse)
A woman, a woman, and a man, chatting, the second woman calls the first ‘sister’
A man and a woman holding hands
A woman, a man, holding hands and kissing
A man, a woman, holding hands, they kiss
A family of 4, the parents are man and woman, the kids say “maman”, “papa”
An elderly lady, an elderly man, a woman and a man, kids, the man calls the elderly lady ‘mummy’
A dog on a leash, a man on a leash, a woman just behind (the man uses the feminine “ma chérie”)
A young woman kissing a young man
Yet another hetero couple holding hands
A woman on a bike slightly ahead of a man
An elderly lady with a basket full of vegetables, an elderly man by her side
Two men who look exactly alike (twins?)
7 kids running around, their parents behind, scolding them gently
A man standing on a bike talking to another man about a girl
A teenage boy kissing a teenage girl
Another teenage girl and another teenage boy
A man sitting on a bench speaking to a woman next to him

X. field recording #2 – in Paris in the Luxembourg gardens
A man and a woman
A woman, a woman, a man and a man (visibly doing what hetero married couples do)
A man and a man (in love)
A woman, a kid, a man, a man (older), a woman (older), the kid says “granny” to the woman
A group of young men talking to young girls (flirting)
Four men in military attire
A family of 6, man, woman, 4 kids in skirts & white socks and pants for boys
A woman kissing another woman
An old man talking to a younger man, visibly his son
Pram 1 and pram 2, pushed by Mom1 and Mom2, and dad1 and dad2 talking far from the prams
Two bearded middle-aged men seated on a chair, one of them has a pearl earring
A man and a woman in running clothing running
A man and a dog
A woman, a man, and a dog
A woman, a man, a kid and a dog
A family of 4 seated on chairs
A group of young persons talking to each other on chairs
A man and a big dog walking
A man and a woman with a puppy meeting another puppy on one end of a leash with a man
and a woman on the other end of the leash (he introduces his “wife” to the other couple)
A man and a woman saying “my love”
A woman and a man flirting
A non-binary young person walking with an older person, at one point the non-binary person says “daddy” to the other person
A god, a dog, and a woman

Y.
Where are all the terrorists?

Z.
I probably need to go
To the countryside
That’s where they
Must be