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Come le donne, per sempre fratelli. Tatuaggio, genere, parentela nell'esperienza delle fa'afafine samoane
Full text linkThe paper analyses the ties between tattoo, gender, and kinship inward the social experiences of tattooed Samoan fa’afafine, namely people assigned male at birth who perceive themselves, behave and act as women. Within the Fa’a Samoa (the Samoan way or culture), regardless of the predisposition for a diverse gender identification, towards their sibling and their descendants fa’afafine keep the duties and responsibilities related to their assigned sex. By focusing on the intricate relation between gender and kinship in Samoa, this paper looks at the strategies adopted by fa’afafine to manipulate their gender through traditional tattoo in order to re-produce it
Precarizzazione, lavoro accademico e professionalizzazione nei mondi dell'antropologia: note per un dibattito
Full text linkDe-path. Depatologizzazione e ricerca-azione per una riforma della L.164/1982
Full text linkIn 2019 the WHO renamed gender incongruence the diagnosis previouslycalledgenderdysphoriaandremoveditfromtheICD’sMentalHealthChapter.Thiswas considered the founding act of trans depsychiatrization, which laid the foundationsfor a radical reform of the services addressed to trans and non-binary people, both on alegalandsocial-healthlevel.Theproceduresforlegalrecognitionofgenderaffirmationare still slow and cumbersome, when not openly abusive, in diverse National States.In Italy they are ruled by L. 164/1982, which resulted from the battles of the transmovement and was intended to rectify the legal position of those who, at that time, alreadyunderwentsurgeryabroad.AlthoughtheSupremeCourtandtheCourtofAppealhaveformally recognized the right to gender identity as a constitutional right, access tO genderaffirmation procedures is still bound to a psychological/psychiatric diagnosis and to a true "compulsory health treatment". Even in terms of medical practice, gate-keeping modelsinhibit and jeopardize the person's self-determination. By reporting the first findings ofa research-action carried out in Bologna, and by analyzing legal and policy documentsdeveloped in recent years by the trans movement, in this paper I will focus on theelaboration of common meaning from which the trans movement is starting to imaginethe implementation of alternative legal and health paths. Why should anthropology becalled into question in this process? What role for the anthropologist in the construction of reform paths for current regulations? To these question I will offer a first answer by providing further problematization of the issues at stake
From Altri transiti. Corpi, pratiche, rappresentazioni di femminielli e transessuali (Other Transitions: Bodies, Practices, Representations of Femminielli and Transsexuals)
No full text«Et io ne vidi uno in Napoli». Orientalismo e processi di patrimonializzazione dei femminielli napoletani
Full text linkIn Naples, as in several other cities of the Campania region (Italy), the word femminiello/femminella “traditionally” refers to effeminate men who behave and act as women. In the last decade femminielli/femminelle were the subject of a true heritagization process, intended to enhace and capitalize their “ancient identity”, now considered on the verge of extinction. Nonetheless, still today, people who self-identify as femminiello/femminella embody an “old-fashioned way” ideal of femininity, sometimes claiming the specificity of their local identity, and distancing themselves from the LGBTQI+ representations and identities. Based on the data collected during a long term fieldwork in Campania, this essay focuses on the processes of production, reproduction and manipulation of the femminielli/femminelle’ identities. More specifically by crossing literature and field notes, I will propose an analysis of the interactions between an orientalist and colonial imaginary that “produces” the femminiello/femminella as otherness (southern) and the reversal that occurs with the distinctive claim of gender experiences embodied by people who still identify as femminielli/femminelle. How do these imaginaries interact? And what implicit stereotypes lurk in such representations
Etnografia della presa in carico di richiedenti e rifugiate trans a Bologna. Note preliminari
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