Léane Alestra

Léane Alestra is a writer, gender studies researcher, and feminist media activist. She founded Mécréantes, a media platform followed by over 90,000 people on Instagram, Facebook, Mediapart, and via podcast—soon to be relaunched as Problematik, a collective editorial project rooted in social struggles. Her first essay, Are Straight Men Really Straight? (JC Lattès, 2023), explores the heterosexual norm through male homosocial relationships. In Les Vigilantes (JC Lattès, 2025), she examines how some women become pillars of the far-right—not just its modernized public face. By intersecting gender, racism, and capitalism, she shows how feminism can be co-opted for identitarian and securitarian purposes.