Here is the missing link | poster

In an age of technological acceleration and increasing complexity, how can we go back and rewrite the liberating potential of feminism? And how can we reshape gender politics in a world transformed by automation, transgender people, globalization, and the digital revolution?
Helen Hester, one of the founders of Laboria Coponics, the group to which we owe the famous “Manifesto of Zeno Feminism” makes us think about these issues. In Le favolose, director Roberta Torre tackles the disenfranchisement of identities, looking at the roots of gender and love for transgender performers, some of whom have made the transition, and telling the story of Antonia being disenfranchised on her deathbed. identification. Families are ashamed of them, funerals are held in the strictest secrecy, and the name they had before moving is carved into the tombstones, violently nullifying the entire journey. This also happens to Antonia. Her friends gather to summon her, in an attempt to regain her rejected identity.
The heroes, stars of the boundless transient constellation, intertwine their experiences through telling the stories and memories of their travels. The sex of these people is filthy and forbidden, they are outcasts seeking assimilation into the female realm, disowned by their mothers.

In Andrea Paloro’s “Monica,” transgender actress Tracy Lisette plays a woman coming to terms with her terminally ill mother. The film, in competition at the 79th Venice Film Festival, begins from the director’s personal experience: in recent years he has had to deal with his mother’s illness, which leads him to reflect on his past and the psychological effects of abandonment. The sexuality of these people belongs to the female world, they are groups of both sexes who feel that they belong to the female world without being, they are often “encouraged” or sold, their sensitivity to many disgusting, distorted by cosmetics. Surgery and disguise, but their humanity is enormous and being intimately recognizable women. They feel and think like women, although they have a certain aggressiveness that makes them very masculine. It’s time for feminism, the missing link between the radical feminism of the 1970s and the current emancipatory strategies of cyborg, mutants, and gay culture. Love it, hate it, but just think about it.