Feminist and LGBTQIA+ resistance against fascism
In Italy, the government of Giorgia Meloni, of the “post-fascist” Fratelli d’Italia party, has withdrawn the rights of thousands of same-sex parents, claiming to give “priority to the traditional family”. Piotr Tolstoy, the Deputy Speaker of the State Duma in Russia, declared that “LGBT people are not poor homosexuals or lesbians against whom, as we are told, Russia has decided to fight. It is a well-organised and planned project to undermine traditional societies from within.”
Across Europe, far-right parties are experiencing a resurgence in popularity and are gaining access to power structures. This is a reminder that fascism can be found not only in the political, legal and media spheres, but also in the private domain. On the front line of these repressive policies, could queer identities be a force for resistance against fascism?
Costanza Spina
Journalist and author of "Manifesto for a deviant democracy"
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Carlotta Vagnoli
(in videoconference) Journalist, writer and feminist activist
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Farrah Youssef
Transfeminist activist and community worker
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French, english, italien
Queendom
Gena, a queer artist from a small town in Russia, creates and dresses in fantastical costumes and protests against the government on the streets of Moscow. Born and raised in Magadan, an icy outpost of the Soviet gulag, Gena is just 21. She staged radical public performances that have become a new form of art and activism. Her aim was to change people’s perceptions of beauty and gender, and to draw attention to the harassment suffered by the LGBTQ+ community. The shows – often dark, strange, evocative and queer – are a manifestation of Gena’s subconscious. But they come at a high price.
Agniia Galdanova
Toke Bronson Odin
