{"product_id":"antologaia-queering-the-seventies-a-radical-trans-memoir-paperback-softback-9781978835788","title":"AntoloGaia; Queering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978835788","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAntoloGaia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eQueering the Seventies, a Radical Trans Memoir\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePorpora Marcasciano (Author), Francesco Pascuzzi (Translated by), Sandra Waters (Translated by), Sara Galli (Foreword by), Mohammad Javad Jamali (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978835788\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e364 pages, 0 images\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.059 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Porpora Marcasciano says of this electrifying memoir that, if she could, she would have written it in verse to better capture the wild anarchic energy of the world that fueled her activism. No need. Her life story is poetry enough. What a gift to English speakers for her story to find us now, when we need the inspiration of as much wild anarchic energy as possible.\" - Susan Stryker (author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution) \"A fascinating look into Italy's radical queer and trans cultures and their fraught relationship with wider left-wing politics, Marcasciano's \u003ci\u003eAntoloGaia\u003c\/i\u003e is just as much a guide to how to live one's life with courage, conviction, and creativity.\"  - Juliet Jacques (author of Trans: A Memoir) \"This is a book of exploration-of gender, of one’s life, of things one has dared to dream. Like the people we meet, the stories Porpora Marcasciano tells are cradled in a radical trans love, and isn't that one of the best kinds of love? As you read, you too will be cradled and never abandoned.\"  - Marquis Bey (author of Black Trans Feminism) \"This trans memoir by Porpora Marcasciano, someone who felt born into the wrong world, could not come at a better time. Sexual rights for minorities have been on the map since humans have shared their feelings about being in the world, and what a fitting opportunity that a trans story from 1970s Italy has come to light in this beautiful translation.\" - Bernadette Wegenstein (coeditor of Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking: An Anthology) \"Marcasciano's life is a valuable part of trans history, and her account of the queer movement in Italy during the chaotic 1970s is eye-opening.\" - Diana Goetsch (author of This Body I Wore: A Memoir)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eAntoloGaia \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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 \u003ci\u003efemminielli \u003c\/i\u003esubculture and gives her the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping with this story of gender, sexual, and political discovery, \u003ci\u003eAntoloGaia \u003c\/i\u003eis the first piece of Italian life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eForeword: \"\u003cbr\u003eGiving Voice to the Italian Trans Community,\"\u003cbr\u003e Sara Galli and Mohammad Jamali\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note, Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters\u003cbr\u003e Preface to the Italian edition: \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Unbearable Lightness of Gender in History and Biography,\"\u003cbr\u003e Laura Schettini \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter One\u003cbr\u003e Le dÉ\u003cbr\u003ebut (1973–\u003cbr\u003e1976)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Somewhere in the West\u003cbr\u003e Traces of Dreams\u003cbr\u003e The Source of Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Coming Out\u003cbr\u003e It Happened \u003cbr\u003e Trip\u003cbr\u003e Other Dimensions\u003cbr\u003e Changing the World\u003cbr\u003e The Underground\u003cbr\u003e Technical Rehearsals of Resistance\u003cbr\u003e The Best of Youth\u003cbr\u003e Rebel Music\u003cbr\u003e Exodus, Displacement, Transition\u003cbr\u003e Escape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Two\u003cbr\u003e 1977: Dreaming and Utopia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And 1977 Exploded!\u003cbr\u003e The First Lesbian\u003cbr\u003e We Want Everything!\u003cbr\u003e Alice in the City, Transversalism, Situationism, Fantasy\u003cbr\u003e Strawberries and Blood\u003cbr\u003e Between Class and Gender Consciousness \u003cbr\u003e Nomadic Tribes\u003cbr\u003e The Crush Continuous \u003cbr\u003e The Biggest Piazza Was Too Small\u003cbr\u003e The Transvestite Cries Out for Revenge in the Presence of the Phallus\u003cbr\u003e Porporino\u003cbr\u003e La dolce vita\u003cbr\u003e Lud\u003cbr\u003e With the Faguettes or With the Chavs\u003cbr\u003e Being Overwhelmed \u003cbr\u003e Flora and Fauna\u003cbr\u003e Good Morning, Night\u003cbr\u003e The First of May\u003cbr\u003e Distress and Self-Awareness\u003cbr\u003e Living in a Dream and Not Dreaming about Living\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Three\u003cbr\u003e Extravagance (1978–\u003cbr\u003e1982)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Zanza\u003cbr\u003e Valentina Sanna Cortese\u003cbr\u003e Narciso\u003cbr\u003e The Festival of Poets at Castelporziano \u003cbr\u003e Capo Rizzuto and Gay Camping\u003cbr\u003e Gay Activism and Its First Conference\u003cbr\u003e Mario Mieli \u003cbr\u003e Royal Family and Self-Defense Techniques\u003cbr\u003e Monte Caprino\u003cbr\u003e Extravaganza \u003cbr\u003e Pisa\u003cbr\u003e Desiring \u003cbr\u003e Bologna and the Grand Duchy of Pistoia \u003cbr\u003e Lesbians and\/or Feminists\u003cbr\u003e Punk\u003cbr\u003e The '80s Began\u003cbr\u003e Valerie\u003cbr\u003e Theater\u003cbr\u003e 1981 and the First Gay New Year\u003cbr\u003e Trans Manifesto for 164\u003cbr\u003e Gay Occupations \u003cbr\u003e Beaches\u003cbr\u003e The Cassero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter Four\u003cbr\u003e Transition, Epic Passage (1983...)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Then Night Came!\u003cbr\u003e The Gay Plague\u003cbr\u003e Blows to the Heart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Appendices \u003cbr\u003e Timelines\u003cbr\u003e Key Words\u003cbr\u003e Porpora's Publications\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681739796760,"sku":"9781978835788","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/antologaia-queering-the-seventies-a-radical-trans-memoir-paperback-softback-9781978835788","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}