Abstract
In her documentary Ouvrir la voix (2017), Amandine Gay addresses, in addition to the color-blindness of French society, the blindness toward non-normative sexual relations between racialized subjects. According to Afrofeminist Kiyémis, invisibilization is even more significant for female same-sex relations, which are not necessarily coded as lesbian by the predominant male gaze. This article will show how Céline Sciamma's Bande de filles (2014), translated as Girlhood in English, subverts this white male gaze and empowers her female character by attributing to her a queer sensitivity. Having to struggle against sexism and racism, the protagonist finds in female kinship and gender bending performance better alternatives than heterosexual romance and compliance to gender stereotypes.
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