Biancǝ Stoppani

Organised in collaboration with Altalena, this reading group engages with feminist speculative fiction and its emancipatory potential. These stories, in fact, question the power relations that imbricate and regulate one’s subjectivity by opposing strange and estranging scenarios.

The aim is to open up a time-space to critically imagine with the desires and forces of the stories, by siding with them and asking: Which questions about the present time do they trigger? Which modes of being do their characters live in, which strategies of resistance do they articulate, and which possibilities do they harbinger in order to rewrite that very same present?

Open to all, Stereotyper fosters intersectional and collective practices of listening, learning, and wor(l)d-making. For further information on the readings and calendar, please send me an email.

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V Sunday, 2nd June 2019
Joanna Russ, Quando Cambiò, 1972; and Pamela Sargent, Paure, 1984. Published in VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff, eds. Le Visionarie: Fantascienza, Fantasy, e Femminismo. Rome: NERO, 2018.

IV Sunday, 5th May 2019
Susan Palwick, Jestella, 2001. Published in VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff, eds. Le Visionarie: Fantascienza, Fantasy, e Femminismo. Rome: NERO, 2018.

III Sunday, 31st March 2019
James Tiptree Jr, La soluzione della mosca, 1977. Published in VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff, eds. Le Visionarie: Fantascienza, Fantasy, e Femminismo. Rome: NERO, 2018.

II Sunday, 17th March 2019
Vandana Singh, La donna che si credeva un pianeta, 2003. Published in VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff, eds. Le Visionarie: Fantascienza, Fantasy, e Femminismo. Rome: NERO, 2018.

I Sunday, 24th February 2019
Eileen Gunn, Strategie stabili per manager di fascia media, 1988. Published in VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff, eds. Le Visionarie: Fantascienza, Fantasy, e Femminismo. Rome: NERO, 2018.

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A special thanks to Enrico Boccioletti, Marina Cavadini, and Elena Radice for having generously created a space to gather and think together.

Thanks to Luigi Amato, Enrico Boccioletti, Dafne Boggeri, Alessandra Castellazzi, Anna Castelli, Margherita Castiglioni, Marina Cavadini, Gabriele Cremonesi, Zoe De Luca, Gloria De Risi, Rebecca Di Berardino, Maria Giovanna Drago, Melissa Ghidini, Diego Gualandris, Viola Leddi, Nicolò Porcelluzzi, Ivan Rachieli, Elena Radice, Riccardo Sala, Stella Succi, Pier Mauro Tamburini, Natalia Trejbalova, Laura Tripaldi, Isabella Zamboni, and Ilaria Zanella.

Image courtesy: NERO