Brave New Women. Pratiche e aspirazioni di solidarietà femminile nella mezza età. Le donne della generazione di mezzo sono un anello forte del sistema di welfare italiano, fondamentale per la cura di grandi anziani e nipoti e delle relazioni familiari e comunitarie, ma rischiano di diventarne un anello debole, tra crescenti sovraccarichi di cura e precarietà economica. Il progetto si propone di identificare pratiche e aspirazioni relative alla ricostruzione di reti di sostentamento e cura da parte di donne tra i 55 e i 70 anni, che non vivono in coppia, e di delinearne le possibili forme di tutela giuridica e di traduzione in azioni di policy. Attraverso l’approccio partecipato, il progetto vuole ridefinire insieme alle donne coinvolte i significati e gli obiettivi di modelli di condivisione e mutua assistenza che rispondano alle proprie aspirazioni. Sito del progetto: http://www.medeacontroviolenza.it/home_progetto/

Queerying families of origin. The research aims to explore how families of origin of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) people are involved in negotiating meanings and experiences of sexuality and intimacy, an underexplored dimension of queer family life. Delving into the perspectives of families of origin and showing the complexity and heterogeneity of the ways people with their different gender and sexual identities "do" families across generations, it contributes to querying the very distinction between families of origin and families of choice, and questions the (hetero)normative assumptions about forms and boundaries of family this distinction rests upon. A focus on marginal contexts, such as Southern Europe, and on marginal subjects, like bisexuals or black lesbians, is proposed as a way to challenge the universality of privileged narratives within heteronormativity, homonormativity and anglocentrism.

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Queerying families of origin. The research aims to explore how families of origin of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) people are involved in negotiating meanings and experiences of sexuality and intimacy, an underexplored dimension of queer family life. Delving into the perspectives of families of origin and showing the complexity and heterogeneity of the ways people with their different gender and sexual identities "do" families across generations, it contributes to querying the very distinction between families of origin and families of choice, and questions the (hetero)normative assumptions about forms and boundaries of family this distinction rests upon. A focus on marginal contexts, such as Southern Europe, and on marginal subjects, like bisexuals or black lesbians, is proposed as a way to challenge the universality of privileged narratives within heteronormativity, homonormativity and anglocentrism, and to reveal unexpected resources families of origin mobilise to make sense of GLBT identities and lived experiences.