Queer Italian Cultures. Themed Section Editorial.

Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, SA Smythe August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Editorials, Themed Section

by Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, SA Smythe

The editorial includes the Guest Editors’ introductions to their respective areas. Julia Heim, Charlotte Ross, and SA Smythe offer a brief critical contextualization of current and ongoing sociopolitical issues undergirding the question of LGBTQIA+ rights in Italy. They reflect on anti-queer/anti-LGBT discrimination within academia, on intersectional solidarity and activism, and on the developing field of “Queer Italian Studies.” The editorial also provides a summary of the articles contained in the volume.

2.Mario Mieli, ovvero il maestro masochista: Performative Elements of a Perverse Militancy

Matthew Zundel August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Themed Section

by Matthew Zundel

This essay offers a reading of Mario Mieli’s militant political project through the theoretical lens of performativity. Performativity, suspended between, and fully incorporating both the linguistic and the theatrical, courses through Mieli’s cultural production. I begin with a discussion of the role of the travestito within the context of Mieli’s involvement in the emergence of gay theater in Italy in the late 1970s and its necessarily political valences.

4.Translating Spanish Transfeminist Activism into Italian. Performativity, DIY, and Affective Contaminations.

Michela Baldo August 31, 2019 Issue: g/s/i 6 (2019) Category: Themed Section

by Michela Baldo

This article examines the translations into Italian of four post-porn and transfeminist Spanish texts, written by the writers and performers Diana Torres and Itziar Ziga: Pornoterrorismo/Porn terrorism (2014), Fica Potens/ Powerful Cunt (2015), Vomitorium/Vomitorium (2017), and Diventare Cagna/Becoming a Bitch (2015). The texts were translated by a group of Italian transfeminist translators. The presentations of these translations, between the years 2014 and 2017,

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Tag: performativity

Queer Italian Cultures. Themed Section Editorial.

2.Mario Mieli, ovvero il maestro masochista: Performative Elements of a Perverse Militancy

4.Translating Spanish Transfeminist Activism into Italian. Performativity, DIY, and Affective Contaminations.

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