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Support Blast, a new independent media: https://www.blast-info.fr/soutenir What if instead of marrying your lover, you married your best friend? What if instead of raising children as a couple, you raised them as co-parents, with friends? What if the most important relationships in our lives became our friends, not our spouses? While these ideas may seem original, they have the merit of raising a central question: what place do we give to friendship in our society? Because even if most people agree that their friends have an important place in their lives, we collectively tend to prioritize these relationships as being less important than romantic or family relationships. And this is not just a cultural fact, it is a hierarchy embedded in institutions and laws. You don't get a day off for the death of a friend, when you do for the death of a spouse. We don't get a tax advantage if we live with a friend, when we can get one if we get married. The place we give to friendship has something very political, and it is this aspect that the journalist Alice Raybaud decided to study in her book "Our powerful friendships", where she asks herself this question: Why would the romantic couple represent the only way to walk with others in life? During her investigation, she discovered that those who have made friendship their priority have created spaces of resistance in the face of the alienations of the patriarchal, capitalist system and in a period of great ecological uncertainty. Straight or queer, between women, between men or in mixed groups, many of them are reinventing, among friends, ways of campaigning, living, consuming, building a family, growing old together and, ultimately, taking care of each other. So why is friendship an eminently serious and fundamental subject, how could it allow us to dissent from the current system and emancipate ourselves collectively? Answer in this show for Blast. Journalist: Salomé Saqué Editing: Émilie Fortun Sound: Baptiste Veilhan Graphics: Morgane Sabouret, Diane Lataste Production: Hicham Tragha Program Director: Mathias Enthoven Editor-in-Chief: Soumaya Benaïssa Publication Director: Denis Robert The site: https://www.blast-info.fr/ Facebook: / blastofficiel Twitter: / blast_france Instagram: / blastofficiel Mastodon: https://mamot.fr/web/@blast_info Peertube: https://video.blast-info.fr/ Twitch: / blastinfo #Interview #Society #Friendship