AntoloGaia

PORPORA MARCASCIANO is a sociologist, activist, writer, and municipal counselor in the city of Bologna, Italy. She is the honorary president of the Trans Identity Movement (MIT) and author of Dawn of the Bad Transwoman: Stories, Gazes and Experiences of My Transgender Generation.   FRANCESCO PASCUZZI is an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. He is the coeditor of the collection Dreamscapes in Italian Cinema (2015). He lives in Somerset County, New Jersey.   SANDRA WATERS is the managing editor of Italian Quarterly and coedits the Other Voices of Italy series for Rutgers University Press. She is the coeditor of The Spaces and Places of Horror. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Porpora Marcasciano says of this electrifying memoir that, if she could, she would have written it in verse to better capture the wild anarchic energy of the world that fueled her activism. No need. Her life story is poetry enough. What a gift to English speakers for her story to find us now, when we need the inspiration of as much wild anarchic energy as possible." - Susan Stryker (author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution) "A fascinating look into Italy's radical queer and trans cultures and their fraught relationship with wider left-wing politics, Marcasciano's AntoloGaia is just as much a guide to how to live one's life with courage, conviction, and creativity."  - Juliet Jacques (author of Trans: A Memoir) "This is a book of exploration-of gender, of one’s life, of things one has dared to dream. Like the people we meet, the stories Porpora Marcasciano tells are cradled in a radical trans love, and isn't that one of the best kinds of love? As you read, you too will be cradled and never abandoned."  - Marquis Bey (author of Black Trans Feminism) "This trans memoir by Porpora Marcasciano, someone who felt born into the wrong world, could not come at a better time. Sexual rights for minorities have been on the map since humans have shared their feelings about being in the world, and what a fitting opportunity that a trans story from 1970s Italy has come to light in this beautiful translation." - Bernadette Wegenstein (coeditor of Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking: An Anthology) "Marcasciano's life is a valuable part of trans history, and her account of the queer movement in Italy during the chaotic 1970s is eye-opening." - Diana Goetsch (author of This Body I Wore: A Memoir)

• Foreword: "Giving Voice to the Italian Trans Community," Sara Galli and Mohammad JamaliTranslator's Note, Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra WatersPreface to the Italian edition: "The Unbearable Lightness of Gender in History and Biography," Laura Schettini Chapter OneLe dÉbut (1973–1976)Somewhere in the WestTraces of DreamsThe Source of ConsciousnessComing OutIt Happened TripOther DimensionsChanging the WorldThe UndergroundTechnical Rehearsals of ResistanceThe Best of YouthRebel MusicExodus, Displacement, TransitionEscapeChapter Two1977: Dreaming and UtopiaAnd 1977 Exploded!The First LesbianWe Want Everything!Alice in the City, Transversalism, Situationism, FantasyStrawberries and BloodBetween Class and Gender Consciousness Nomadic TribesThe Crush Continuous The Biggest Piazza Was Too SmallThe Transvestite Cries Out for Revenge in the Presence of the PhallusPorporinoLa dolce vitaLudWith the Faguettes or With the ChavsBeing Overwhelmed Flora and FaunaGood Morning, NightThe First of MayDistress and Self-AwarenessLiving in a Dream and Not Dreaming about LivingChapter ThreeExtravagance (1978–1982)ZanzaValentina Sanna CorteseNarcisoThe Festival of Poets at Castelporziano Capo Rizzuto and Gay CampingGay Activism and Its First ConferenceMario Mieli Royal Family and Self-Defense TechniquesMonte CaprinoExtravaganza PisaDesiring Bologna and the Grand Duchy of Pistoia Lesbians and/or FeministsPunkThe '80s BeganValerieTheater1981 and the First Gay New YearTrans Manifesto for 164Gay Occupations BeachesThe CasseroChapter FourTransition, Epic Passage (1983...)Then Night Came!The Gay PlagueBlows to the HeartAuthor AcknowledgmentsAppendices TimelinesKey WordsPorpora's PublicationsNotes on Contributors