<i>Femmes en crise, femmes en colère</i> : Activating Rage in Amandine Gay’s <i>Une poupée en chocolat</i> (2021)

This article examines filmmaker, author, and activist Amandine Gay's autotheoretical essay Une poupée en chocolat (2021). In this rageful text, Gay critiques the politics and violence of transracial adoption. Drawing from her own experience as a transracial adoptee, Gay challenges dominant narratives around kinship and expresses her refusal to conform to traditional family-making or biological motherhood. Her work is a form of activism in process, reclaiming agency amid systemic racism, institutional neglect, and personal crisis. She speaks of the three central pillars of her life – creation, activism, and research – through which she processes and contests these violences. This article focuses on the reparative function of anger and its potential as a generative force within engaged activism. It explores how anger, often pathologized as excessive, is refigured by Gay as a vital resource for challenging institutions that systematically disempower marginalized subjects.