Antologaia: Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir by Marcasciano, Porpora

Antologaia: Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781978835788)

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Antologaia: Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir by Marcasciano, Porpora

Antologaia: Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir

$34.95
Antologaia: Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir by Marcasciano, Porpora

Antologaia: Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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In this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider's look at the beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to Naples's unique femminielli subculture and gives her the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping with this story of gender, sexual, and political discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.



Author: Porpora Marcasciano
ISBN-10: 1978835787
ISBN-13: 9781978835788
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2023
Pages: 364
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.95h x 4.96w x 0.94d
By Porpora Marcasciano
By Porpora Marcasciano
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PORPORA MARCASCIANO is a sociologist, activist, writer, and municipal counselor in the city of Bologna, Italy. She is the honorary president of the Trans Identity Movement (MIT) and author of Dawn of the Bad Transwoman: Stories, Gazes and Experiences of My Transgender Generation.

FRANCESCO PASCUZZI is an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is the coeditor of the collection Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema (2015). He lives in Somerset County, New Jersey.

SANDRA WATERS is the managing editor of Italian Quarterly and coedits the Other Voices of Italy series for Rutgers University Press. She is the coeditor of The Spaces and Places of Horror. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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