'Growing up in hostile environments' (2/7). In 2014, in Xiamen, China, Dutch photographer Sarah Mei Herman met four lesbian students. Over the years, she has continued to follow them, capturing in her portraits a truth that these young women must otherwise hide in a society where homosexuality remains taboo.
Arriving in China in the middle of Covid, our author discovered the love life in Shanghai by the app: Tantan, then Bumble. W.Y., Momo, Lili — three women aged 25 to 30, and as many ways to avoid maternal injunctions. Meanwhile, in Kaifeng, an old lady continues to marry girls in public.