The response to our open letter regarding the March 29th assembly at the Mario Mieli Hospital in Rome.
The Day of May 17th against homolesbobitransphobia has finally passed a threshold of
politicization: from the time when gays and institutions met only one day a year to
celebrating differences and denouncing discrimination, has turned into a day of struggle and
claim. Ten years ago the same thing happened on November 25th, then on March 8th, thanks to the push
from below and to the strength of Non Una Di Meno. It is happening now in the LGBTQIA+ community in the name of
anger, insubordination, the demand for unity, justice and radicalism that respond to a
patriarchal, anti-gender, post-fascist, security-minded, sovereignist, militarist, racist, colonialist drift
and Islamophobic closely connected to the intrinsically authoritarian aspects of neoliberalism which,
as evident as they have always been to the eyes of us marginalized subjects, in this phase of crisis
are brought to the fore and brutally exaggerated.
Today more than ever it is necessary to cultivate and strengthen a collective capacity for self-organisation and
political autonomy commensurate with the resistance that our communities are loudly demanding at least
from the mobilizations around the DLL Zan and then with Stati Genderali. We recognize in the path – that is
to say, for the moment, in the only assembly on March 29th – promoted by La Strada dei Diritti in
view of the organization of the Roman square on May 17th an attempt to move in that
direction. We have crossed it and we cross it, supporting it in its partiality, just as
We support and join every initiative of struggle launched in these days – from the procession of the 18th of Rete
Trans Queer in Rome, to those in Naples and Palermo, from antifa marches in Milan and La Spezia, to those
which on May 17 will remember the Nakba of the Palestinian people.
We respond – positively – to the Roman demonstration of the 17th by organizing in Bologna, as
Rivolta Pride, a queer transfeminist march twinned and converging with the Youth Pride march
Palestinians because we believe it is necessary, to compose and recompose intersectionally the
struggles, starting from the territories and taking on the demands of all the struggling subjects through
participatory, horizontal and democratic methods. For us, it is the only way to avoid our
common struggles are exploited to the detriment of some of us, and it is therefore the only way
imaginable to create a truly shared platform of queer resistance. They said so
well in their letter the Cassero company and we reiterate it, a month later, recognizing and
welcoming the political progress and the analytical gap produced by La Strada dei Diritti
after (and perhaps in response to) that letter. In fact, to everyone's amazement, the call on the 17th
initially addressed to all movements without mentioning the Security Bill, the battle
referendum on citizenship and work, Palestinian resistance and the refusal of rearmament,
necessary and non-negotiable conditions to "define the lowest common denominators" with whom,
This time, without any surprise, he didn't want to answer that call. To date, all this
was included – at least nominally – in the political positioning of La Strada dei Diritti, and
we can only be happy about it.
So go ahead, comrades! This is no longer the time for words, even if they are shared with difficulty.
during the phase of the General States: as Porpora Marcasciano underlined in his letter,
grasping the immediacy of the international response to the attacks on trans* people in the US and
UK, it's time for readiness, action, and struggle. It would be useful to start again with a national call.
just to build a common lexicon, which apparently we already have, and perhaps not even so much for
discuss the contents, but to build and implement the conditions for a mobilization that
it can be said to be collective and unitary only if it is at the same time participatory, open, decentralized and
receptive to the requests of anyone who passes through the various Pride events – and also, perhaps, of those who don't go to those Pride events
is never, or more, felt nor understood nor welcomed, and that we cannot abandon to frustration and
to resignation without risking ending up in it ourselves.
We are here, we were there, we will be there!
The article The voice of: Laboratory Unmaskings comes from Keep.
