by Marzia D’Amico

June Scialpi’s poetry embodies a poetics of queerness and Southerness, intertwining marginalized identities, historical inheritances, and the fluidity of selfhood. Her work resists dominant cultural narratives by contesting patriarchal structures and advocating for an identity shaped through relationality, vulnerability, and transformation. This study examines how her engagement with themes of conflict and magic reframes the queer subject through a Southern Italian lens, where ritual and myth provide an alternative to normative frameworks of identity.