La Barbe: France’s Bearded Feminists
‘La Barbe’ protest (Photo: La Barbe/Facebook)
A group of French feminists have been using an unusual form of protests — fake beards — to protest what they think is a male-dominated society.
Host Marco Werman talks with Colette Coffin from the group La Barbe, which means beard.
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