Road D

This session aims to investigate the linguistic discrimination of gender and gender orientation through expressions of dissent. We will reflect on the metaphoric language that is used in different forms of communication, both traditional and multimedia, to express the normalness of linguistic diversity. We will also investigate how this language mirrors and forges individual and collective awareness; in particular, we will focus on how it leads to building a negative attitude towards a specific community. Dissent towards linguistic normativity, therefore, becomes an act of civic awareness. We will analyze specific examples of interlinguistic communication that affect the construction of a shared background, also on a subliminal level. In particular, we will focus on gender complexity in the translation of audiovisual and multimedia discourse, which is increasingly widespread in transversal and transnational communities.

In the afternoon, fieldwork is organized in collaboration with Bologna LGBT Center, a historical place of dissent and civic activism. It will focus on a variety of narrations of difference on the grounds of the docufiction “TCT – Torri, Checche e Tortellini”, which focuses on a crucial moment in the history of the LGBT movement in Bologna and Italy: from revolt to vindication of public spaces.