Théophile de Giraud

Literary work Giraud's first book, The Impertinence of Procreation, was published in 2000. It argues against human reproduction and uses humour and provocation. He was described in Le Carnet et les Instants as noted for eccentricities, and was listed in André Blavier's anthology Les Fous Littéraires.

Giraud's essay The Art of Guillotining the Procreators: Anti-Natalist Manifesto, published in 2006, is a revised version of his first book. Its central phrase is "If you love children, don't create them". In the work, Giraud argues that life is marked by suffering and that ethics is incompatible with reproduction. He also argues for school training for parenthood, adoption, and a procreation strike against reproduction imposed by patriarchy.

In 2008, Giraud published a poetic essay on cold wave, Cold Love, Satanic Sex and Funny Suicide, with a preface by Jean-Luc De Meyer, singer of Front 242. The work uses song excerpts to discuss themes in cold wave and the origins of the Gothic movement, including sex, death, family, the end of the world, and human extinction.

Giraud also contributed to the collective book Fewer, More Happy: The Urgency to Rethink Demography, edited by Michel Sourrouille.

Activism Giraud is associated with the antinatalism and childfree movements. He was one of the creators of Non-Parents Day, which was held between 2009 and 2011 in Brussels and Paris. In 2008, he covered a statue of Leopold II in Brussels with red paint to protest against public commemoration of the king and his role in the colonial system of the Belgian Congo. In 2012, he organised a "denatalist" event in Paris about overpopulation and refusal to give birth for ecological reasons.

Awards Winner of the Belgian Vocation Foundation (1998)

Publications The Impertinence of Procreation, Brussels, self-published, 2000 One Hundred Necromantic Haikus, preface by Jean-Pierre Verheggen, foreword and afterword by André Stas, Spa, ed. Galopin, 2004 The Art of Guillotining Procreators: An Anti-natalist Manifesto, Nancy, ed. Le Mort-Qui-Trompe, 2006 Diogenesis, Fluorescent Poems to Wait Between Two Genocides, Brussels, ed. Maelström, 2008 Cold Love, Satanic Sex and Funny Suicide, preface by Jean-Luc De Meyer, Nancy, ed. Le Mort-Qui-Trompe, 2008 Aphorisms for the Use of Future Familicides, preface by Corinne Maier, foreword by Serge Poliart, Brussels, ed. Maelström, 2013 The Childfree Christ: Antinatalism in Early Christianity, ed. AFNIL, 2021