category: Videos

9.Maka: un processo collaborativo raccontato a tre voci

by Geneviève Makaping, Elia Moutamid, And Simone Brioni

Maka offers an account of Makaping’s journey of migration from Cameroon across the desert and the ocean, her arrival in Italy in 1982 following the tragic death of her partner, her success as a journalist and television host, and her more recent relocation to Mantua. Maka focuses on questions of national belonging, and it reflects on how the perception of migration and race has changed since Makaping first came to Italy in the 1990s.

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gender/sexuality/italy 8 (2021) – Table of Contents

gender/sexuality/italy, 8 (2021) 

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor
Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor
Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar and Lisa Dolasinski, Managing Editors
Arianna Avalle, Beatrice Basile, Leonardo Cabrini, Magda Collazo, Jacob DeCarli, Samantha Gillen, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

Table of Contents

Journal Editorial
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College, 

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Intersectionality in Italian histories, cultural products, and social practices

Journal Editorial by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section: “Intersectionality in Italian histories, cultural products, and social practices.” Marini-Maio also highlights the section Collaborations, which hosts discussions and descriptions of current scholarly collaborations. Paola Bonifazio presents the rationale of the Invited Perspectives.

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6.Intersezionalità, posizionamento e studi critici della bianchezza

by Gaia Giuliani

Intersectionality as an episteme, an epistemology, and a method, is essential to the black feminist project of fracturing Universalism within a feminist debate that is totally dominated by US white feminists. Thus, it is necessary to make the peculiarity of black women’s condition emerge. Within the deconstructive project of postmodern feminism, intersectionality becomes necessary to enable feminist scholars and activists to investigate constructions of normative white heteropatriarchy.

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8.Contrade Ribelli

by Mariana Eugenia Califano

What do the names of streets tell us? What story do they tell, and why do they tell it? Can toxic narratives resulting from revisionism be defused? Contrade Ribelli is a short film, made almost exclusively with archival images from Resistenze in Cirenaica in collaboration with Solipsia, that tells the path of the permanent cultural site in Bologna, the genesis of the odonomastic guerrilla warfare,

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10.An Intersectional Approach to Education

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by Valentina Migliarini and Rahma Nur 

The video contribution brings together a leading scholar and a teacher/activist from Europe who adopt an intersectional approach to educational research and practice. Intersectionality illustrated how some people are subject to multiple inequalities how their experience is not just the sum of its parts (Steinmetz, 2020). The conversation recorded in the video attempts to answer the following questions: what does it mean to utilize an intersectional stance to research in the European context?

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gender/sexuality/italy 7 (2020) – Table of Contents

Gender/sexuality/Italy, 7 (2020) 

Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Journal Editor
Paola Bonifazio, Invited Perspectives Editor
Ellen Nerenberg, Open Contributions and Continuing Discussions Editor
Erica Moretti and Colleen Ryan, Reviews Editors
Victor Xavier Zarour Zarzar and Lisa Dolasinski, Managing Editors
Arianna Avalle, Beatrice Basile, Samantha Gillen, Giorgio Losi, Natura Sant Foster, Katherine Travers, Assistant Editors

Table of Contents

Journal Editorial.
NICOLETTA MARINI-MAIO, Dickinson College, 

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Journal Editorial

by Nicoletta Marini-Maio, Paola Bonifazio, Ellen Nerenberg

The editorial includes the Editors’ introductions to their respective areas: Nicoletta Marini-Maio announces the topic and guest editors of the Themed Section: “Beside, Besides, and B-sides: Collaborations as Feminist and Decolonizing Practices.” Paola Bonifazio presents the rationale of the Invited Perspectives. details the contents of the Open Contributions and the section Continuing Discussions, which hosts informed voices on themes developed in previous issues of g/s/i.

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9.Feminism Makes History in Verona: The Response to the World Congress of Families

by Alessandra Montalbano

The last weekend of March 2019, Verona was at the center of media attention for having hosted the XIII World Congress of Families (WCF). However, the feminist response to this ultra-conservative and religious event became the true news. The transnational feminist movement Non Una Di Meno (NUDM) organized a three-day mobilization that included the biggest march in the history of Verona and had a strong impact on public opinion.

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13.Tutto parte da me: Alina Marazzi, regista. Videosaggio.

Tutto parte da me: Alina Marazzi. Videosaggio.

This is a video-essay that Marini-Maio created from her interview with acclaimed filmmaker Alina Marazzi in New York City on March 17, 2018. The interview is presented in alternate editing with clips from Marazzi’s experimental non-fiction films Un’ora sola ti vorrei and Vogliamo anche le rose, and her stylistically hybrid theatrical feature Tutto parla di te. The goal of the video-essay is to unpack,

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