Josépha RAPHARD

Her superpower is speech. And she decided to use it every day to get mothers talking. To help them put their pain into words. To help them free themselves from their shackles and spread their wings. She's Josépha. She's luminous, she's sublime, and with her magic wand, she dared to dust off the idea most of us had of a support group. She doesn't hide that she was afraid of dreaming too big, but it turns out that the women liked it. They even adored getting together to talk. It turns out that, in fact, they needed it, and they followed her on this crazy adventure of the Loma Club, ultimately forming a fabulous peaceful army together. At the Loma Club, we can talk anything. No subject is taboo. We cry, we let ourselves go, we laugh, and above all, we don't judge each other. We support and help each other. Exit competition. Welcome sisterhood.

Everything at the Loma Club reflects Josépha. And it must have been written somewhere that she would one day be its great warrior and peacemaker, she who grew up surrounded by women. She who has always had unconditional love for them, and who loves listening to them talk, without ever tiring. She even started interviewing them, in the documentaries Meufs, then Mères, which she made well before the Loma Club and with which she already brought women together. Today, she also brings them together on Instagram, sharing her beautiful writing with them every day. Convinced that we are much gentler among ourselves than we let on, and that we more easily see the light in others, she sends love, helps us better accept our bodies, to feel less guilty about our roles as mothers, to feel less alone. Never alone or alone together.

So, the one who is able to talk about everything without taboo and to loosen tongues like no one else. The one who is still carried today by the blind trust that her mother has placed in her since she was very young, and who has always felt as legitimate as a man to take her place in this world. The one who was convinced that she would become an adult by becoming a mother, but who since then has always felt like she is 15 years old. The one who works every day to become a better person in her daughter's eyes and who never forgets that there are as many ways to be mothers as there are mothers. The one who persists and insists on saying that when women talk to each other and unite, extraordinary things happen. Josépha, the instinctive one, the warrior, the unifier, agreed to welcome me into her little Brussels cocoon, to my great joy.

Josépha and I talked about the vision we develop of society when we grow up like her, surrounded by women. About the fact that becoming a feminist isn't just a sign held up in the street, but rather a long, daily journey. We talk about motherhood, which made her feel freer than ever before, about the Loma Club, of course, and also about the superpowers of our bodies, her wonderful grandmother, Lauren Bastide, and pizza parties on the living room floor.

Let's go! With Josépha today, we're blowing your wings.

So listen carefully. Deploy them. And fly!