Historic Italian LGBTQI+ group
Arcigay on Sunday elected its first woman president, 45-year-old
Siena-born journalist Natascia Maesi.
"From today, for four years, I will be president of Arcigay,"
said Maesi after her election at the 17th annual congress of the
association in Latina south of Rome.
She stressed that she would be called "la presidente" (Ms
President), using the female gender, and not "il presidente" (Mr
Premier) as has been controversially chosen by new Italian
Premier Giorgia Meloni, Italy's first woman head of government.
"Giorgia Meloni, in breaking the glass ceiling, ordered the
cancellation of the female gender, with the subsequent making
invisible of women in public and political discourse,
reinforcing the idea that women only have value if they resemble
men, become like them, and are called male in order to be
authoritative" said Maesi.
The way in which I and other transfeminist activists of Arcigay
mean to approach genders, making them visible and traversible,
disobeying gender norms and expectations, and overcoming the
limits of binarism, is totally different".
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