News of August
The new testimonies published in August explore the realm of motherhood: the one lived in search of new awareness, the one desired but still suspended in doubt, the one that questions how to return this experience to the world with honesty – different perspectives and less rhetoric.
Let’s find out about them!
Francesca: “Motherhood made me feel disabled”
Francesca, an artist and performer, recounts her experience of motherhood, desired but not in line with common rhetoric, rather made of a daily exercise applied to self-definition, of the relationship within the couple and work management. Francesca’s is an invitation to share women’s stories so that they can articulate their reproductive choices more consciously.
This testimony was collected in collaboration with the Fabbrica dei Gesti in Lecce, as part of the Equality Festival_ identities, arts, territories, as part of the Body Awareness Practices Workshop ‘In the Wefts of the Body’ organised by Stefania Mariano, with the women of the Cooperativa Rinascita.
Rosella: “For the first time ever I felt I was not just a thinking mind”
Rosella, mother of two grown up sons now independent, tells us about the feelings she experienced during her pregnancies: the sense of responsibility and of being inadequate, the awareness of having a body, the fear of people’s judgment.
Flavia: “There is a greater pressure on women”
Flavia tells she doesn’t have a definite position on children. What she is sure about is that a woman’s happiness and fulfillment, despite social pressure, cannot depend on the existence of another life.
These testimonies come from comes from Annotu, Lunàdigas’ living archive dedicated to accounts of parental choices by speakers of minority languages, starting with the Sardinian language and its alloglot varieties.
For the Impossible Monologues series we present an impossible one par excellence: that of Wilhelmina Shakespeare, performed by Michela Sale Musio
It has been a year since Michela Murgia passed away making the world her orphan, we remember her every day and every day we continue to feed on her words and her legacy. We pay tribute to her, thanks to our Claudia Mazzilli, with the review of Dare la vita (Rizzoli 2024).
In her posthumous book, Michela Murgia addresses the question of gestational surrogacy without simplifications and without hypocrisy, but also without absolute certainties, with the will to project herself into the future, beyond her own life, in an attempt to overcome both the fracture that has been created between feminists (for or against surrogacy) and the paralysis which jurisprudence has reached in many European countries and the world (where gestational surrogacy has always been either not allowed or downright prohibited).
