Crossing gender in the Postmodern Italy

  • Porpora Marcasciano MIT
Keywords: Transsexualism, transsexuality, transgender, pathology, a significant human experience

Abstract

Forty years after transsexual coming out, from the beginning of a physical, cultural and historic transit, what has changed in Italy today? It is certainly the visibility that filled a historical vacuum. It allows us to speak, understand, read the trans experience: for some, as a phenomenon, for others, as category, pathology, gender incongruity. Open questions are several about a complex and varied experience on a socio-cultural contexts at same time complex and varied. One answer is certain: we can no longer talk about transsexualism / transgender in the singular, but rather about plural transsexualism. The Transsexualism is different, various, diversified according to several possible variations that the Post-modern presents us.

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Author Biography

Porpora Marcasciano, MIT
Porpora Marcasciano, MIT President (Transsexual Identity Movement) and vice president of ONIG (National Observatory of Gender Identity), is a sociologist and an activist Trans Queer, artistic director of “Divergenti” Transsexual International Film Festival. She has published: Tra le rose e le viole (Manifestolibri) 2002. Antologaia sesso genere e cultura degli anni ‘70, (Il dito e la luna) 2007. Favolose Narranti, (Manifestolibri) 2008. Elementi di critica Trans, (Manifestolibri) 2010. She has published several essays in collective works. She made her debut in the theater with Il sogno e l’utopia, letture immagini visioni degli anni ‘70. E-mail: mit.bo@tin.it
Published
2013-10-22
How to Cite
MarcascianoP. (2013). Crossing gender in the Postmodern Italy. La Camera Blu, (9). https://doi.org/10.6092/1827-9198/1998