{"id":51205,"date":"2026-02-05T14:45:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/?p=51205"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:45:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T13:45:29","slug":"splinters-of-joy-lylybeth-merles-eco-queer-fairy-tale-of-transition-and-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/en\/2026\/02\/05\/splinters-of-joy-lylybeth-merles-eco-queer-fairy-tale-of-transition-and-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"Splinters of Joy: Lylybeth Merle\u2019s Eco\u2011Queer Fairy Tale of Transition and Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lylybeth.merle\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lylybeth.merle\/\">Lylybeth Merle\u2019s<\/a> new book\u00a0<em>\u00c9chardes<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cSplinters\u201d), out in February 2026, is a tender, defiant journey through gender, trauma, and the wild joy of becoming yourself. Written between poems, memories, and ritual-like fragments, it reads like a queer fairy tale rooted in very real violence \u2014 and in the stubborn, glittering will to heal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years ago, Merle began to question the \u201cboy\u201d gender identity imposed on her body and started unravelling it, thread by thread. In the middle of that upheaval, something unexpected surfaced: joy. As she moves away from an assigned identity that never fit, she discovers a more expansive version of herself, one that refuses to be contained by binary expectations. Her painted hands become feathers, tools of metamorphosis, portals to another way of inhabiting the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144428-1024x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144428-1024x333.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144428-300x97.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144428-768x250.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144428-18x6.jpg 18w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144428.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But claiming femininity in a trans body in our societies does not happen without backlash. As Merle steps into her affirmed self, she faces the everyday and structural violences that patriarchy reserves for the feminine: harassment, objectification, erasure, and the exhausting demand to justify her existence.&nbsp;<em>\u00c9chardes<\/em>&nbsp;does not look away from these wounds. Instead, it names them, holds them up to the light, and lets them transform into language. Writing becomes both shield and spell: a way to survive, but also to imagine other futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"219\" height=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144005.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144005.jpg 219w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144005-10x12.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the edge of the forest \u2014 a recurring image in the book \u2014 Merle invites us into an eco\u2011queer space where bodies, plants, seasons, and spirits speak to one another. This is not escapism; it is a political and poetic tactic. By reconnecting with the more\u2011than\u2011human world, she challenges the capitalist, cis\u2011heteronormative logics that place bodies and landscapes under the same regimes of control and extraction. The forest becomes a place of refuge and of reckoning, where gender can be as shifting and alive as moss, water, or wind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stylistically,&nbsp;<em>\u00c9chardes<\/em>&nbsp;moves between humour and sharp lucidity. Merle can be bitingly ironic about the absurdity of gender norms, then suddenly intimate and vulnerable, sharing the small daily rituals that keep her afloat: doing her nails, performing on stage, holding space for friends, whispering affirmations to herself in the dark. This constant movement between the intimate and the political is at the heart of her work. She insists that care is not a soft afterthought, but a radical way to reconnect with ourselves and with the world, and that vulnerability is not weakness but a transformative force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Strasbourg in 1991, Lylybeth Merle is a writer, stage director, drag performer, and queer activist. Trained in drama at INSAS in Brussels, she fell in love with cabaret as a space where performance, community, and resistance intersect. She created&nbsp;<em>LILITH(s)<\/em>&nbsp;in 2022,&nbsp;<em>Hippocampe<\/em>&nbsp;in 2023, and has been touring her itinerant&nbsp;<em>Cabaret Po\u00e8me<\/em>&nbsp;since 2023, blending spoken word, drag, and live ritual. Across these projects, she weaves intimate stories with poetic visuals and claims the stage as a place of collective care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rooted in a queer and underground milieu, Merle also navigates institutional cultural spaces, constantly trying to build bridges between scenes, venues, and audiences. She knows how fragile those connections can be, and&nbsp;<em>\u00c9chardes<\/em>&nbsp;is part of that ongoing work: creating texts that speak directly to those whose paths, scars, and misadventures mirror her own, to counter the suffocating feeling of isolation so many trans and queer people experience. At the same time, she writes for those who \u201cdon\u2019t know yet\u201d \u2014 those who are curious, willing to learn, and ready to question themselves together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144100.jpg 307w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144100-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/ket.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capture-decran-2026-02-05-144100-10x12.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u00c9chardes\u00a0is a slim book (169 pages, 15 x 18 cm, 15\u20ac, ISBN 978\u20112\u2011930822\u201141\u20119), but it opens onto a vast terrain of queer lives, ecologies, and futures. It is a feminist eco\u2011queer tale, a love letter to transition, and a guide for anyone who has ever felt out of place in their own body or in this world. For LGBTQ+ readers, it offers recognition and a path towards healing; for allies, it is an invitation to step into the forest, listen, and let yourself be changed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lylybeth Merle\u2019s new book\u00a0\u00c9chardes\u00a0(\u201cSplinters\u201d), out in February 2026, is a tender, defiant journey through gender,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":51208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,30],"tags":[2898,129,81,128,78,72,73,64,67,126,61],"series":[],"class_list":["post-51205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist","category-books","category-portrait","tag-books","tag-brussel","tag-brussels","tag-bruxelles","tag-community","tag-gay","tag-lesbian","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtqia","tag-party","tag-queer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the 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