Laurence Rosier is a linguist, professor at the ULB and specialist in verbal violence. An exhibition curator, co-author and coordinator of numerous publications, she is the author of ‘Petit traité de l'insulte’ (2006, republished and expanded in 2009), ‘De l'insulte... aux femmes’ (2017), ‘Cohabitante l'égale’ (2023) and, at the start of 2025, ‘La riposte. Femmes, discours et violences’, which uses women's words as an act of resistance.