Eccentric Bodies, Soggettiva, Gender Bender, Bologna

I'm giving a little presentation called 'Queer Fat Feminist Activism in a Handful of Amazing Episodes' at Soggettiva, which is part of a festival called Gender Bender. The festival takes place in Bologna, 1-5 November 2011. Come along if you can!

Here's the official blurb:

Eccentric Bodies: Beauty, Normativity and Representations
3pm, Saturday 5 November
Aula Magna Santa Cristina, via del Piombo 5
Free entry

Which are the ways to resist actively the objectification of our bodies and our individualities, that is so much in vogue among our political class today? How can you stop pursuing the ideal of the perfect body dictated by the media? How to redefine the concept of beauty that threatens to crush many of us, since this ideal is more and more distant from the inclusion of real women, lesbian or straight? And it happens especially when our own desires are not in conformity to the mainstream.

Together with Giorgia Aiello, Elisa Arfini, Charlotte Cooper, Alessia Muroni, Roberta Sassatelli we will try to reflect on these issues and give solutions certainly not exhaustive, but analysis tools that can be useful for everyone.

Gender Bender