Fifteen years since the first notebook Viola on lesbianism ("And the last to close the door," 1995) an editorial team composed of Lidia Cirillo, Fabiola Correale, Paola Gouache, Claudia Lopresti, Eva and Anna Muraro Mamin discussed and developed a new contribution
writes in the editorial policies of the first introductions Notebook:
"A first question that we put in evoking the old number was as follows: what has changed since 1995 when we debated passionately that the relationship between feminism and lesbian politics? You can answer that first of all, many things have changed in two opposite directions exactly with the end result of an apparent immobility.
There was above all a clear shift in feminism. For the first time in Italian history, a sweeping motion, like the one that showed violence against women in November 2007, was called "feminists and lesbians, openly acknowledging the existence within it of a component of women who love women .
There was then a change in the political scene on which he broke the Pride, which takes place every once in tens of thousands of people forced to take the political position and the press to break the silence. In addition, the time that fourth book of the old series, a television series like The L Word would have been unthinkable and there were no parliamentary openly gay, lesbian or trans. Other phenomena
instead go in the opposite direction. Italy is still one of the few countries in the world north-west where the movement has not achieved anything in terms of rights and action against homophobia, while lesbian, gay and trans are much more exposed today than yesterday homophobic violence .
Pride and Prejudice, the third new series of notebook Viola post-2000, try to take stock of the situation of lesbians in Italy, both politically and from the historical, theoretical and imaginary, without ambition wrong provide on-line movement or closing of a complex world into a comprehensive framework captiously, but also without fear of expressing an interpretation of reality and to draw a political perspective.
Beyond this general summary, even many other nodes are treated in the three sections of policies Pride and Prejudice: the relationship between lesbians and feminists in the movement, the marriage controversy yes / no marriage, to the more general for civil rights for lesbians and gay men in Italy and worldwide, lesbian motherhood, the critique of political lobbying, the issue of exploitation of gays in anti-Islamic in Europe, to name just a few of the topics covered. The views are varied, and articulate speakers, we tried to give the right space to issues that cross the political debate within the lesbian movement, also including GLBT issues more generally and feminists.
also interviews with activists of the movement (Elena Biagini, Cristina Gramolini, Luki Massa) testify to the intent of the drafting of interim and provide an open, non-fossilized often forced dichotomy on institutional / radicals, which makes little account of the wealth and complexity of the paths of groups and individuals.
At the same time it is activated a channel of communication with the feminist movement and the anti-capitalist left policy area, in the tradition of logic is that intersectional Notebooks, putting in work since their birth in Nineties ( the history of the first series and archive material available for download ).
From the perspective of lesbian theory, which contains the complexity and variety of placements are difficult to summarize in a synthetic instrument, was chosen line delauretisiano "eccentric subject" , from reading the Wittig queer subject, however, a priority political reading compared to a postmodern academic.
were also highlighted texts on which was most recently discussed in meetings lesbian mass (eg the Five Days lesbians held in Rome in June 2010), containing the issues of greatest timeliness and urgency for political and cultural groups.
There are also an annotated bibliography and thematic and a section on community and imaginary , given the vital role - in the last decade - from the communication network and a global production of lesbian images in film, on television and in newspapers, this community is based on the imaginary pre-political, but not negligible, because it stems from the humus to work on a comprehensive policy, in which desire for transformation is not a speech dropped from 'high on the bodies of refractory and blessed subject of their alienation.
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