T*

This book is inspired by the pictures that Giordano Bonora, a young streetcar operator and aspiring photographer, took of Bolognas small transgender community in 1980 (although it would be more correct to speak, in this case, of proto-Transgenderism). Reproduced here for the first time, these raw and gilded images reflectduring a period in Italy characterized by subversive movements and political revolts that were not just rooted in questions of identityattempts made by T* people at a construction of the self outside the binary logic of the genotypically XY male/genotypically XX female. By people like Valriea womans face, a hairless chest with no breasts, a fleur-de-lis tattooed on the shoulder, and two pairs of pantyhosefor whom gender is not determined biologically but something to be embraced depending on the circumstances. A box containing a jigsaw puzzle with a picture that is constantly changing. Bundled with the photographs, a handful of texts set out to explain how the question of gender involves two cultural levels of sexual difference, the normative and the dissident.

di Barbaro, Paolo;Preciado, Paul B.;Velena, Helena;Vitale, Salvatore;Vogel, Wendy - 2019-01-01

Edizioni Mousse Magazine & Publishing

ISBN 9788867493968