Anti-rape culture and the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral
6 min readAug 18, 2020
“The only church that illuminates is a burning church.”
I first encountered these words on a meme depicting the burning of Notre Dame Cathedral. The meme appeared before the flames had even been quenched. After some digging I discovered that the quote was attributed both to the Marxist revolutionary, Che Guevara, and to Buenaventura Durruti, an anarchist leader in…