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Film and TV series

Autumn Beat (Antonio Dikele Distefano, 2022): Written and directed by the author of Zero, the story of two Black Italian brothers making rap music;

Come un uomo sulla terra (Andrea Segre and Dagmawi Yimer, 2008): a documentary it centers the perspectives of the people who have made the perilous journey to Italy–in this case, Ethiopians who experienced the violence and deprivation of the Libyan crossing–letting them tell their stories themselves;

Le fate ignoranti (film, 2001, and tv series, 2022, both from director Ferzan Ozpetek): After a deathly car accident, Antonia starts dating her husband's friends and finds the truth about his life;

Io, Capitano (Matteo Garrone, 2023): A Homeric fairy tale that tells the adventurous journey of two young boys, Seydou and Moussa, who leave Dakar to reach Europe;

Io sono Li, (Andrea Segre, 2011):  the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon;

Nata per te (Fabio Mollo, 2023): the true story of Luca, a single Catholic man, and homosexual, who in 2017 adopted Alba, a Down's syndrome child left in hospital shortly after being born;

Summertime (Netflix): a teen drama set in Cesenatico;

Zero (Netflix): a shy teen with the power to turn invisible.

Books and Graphic Novels

Alec Trenta, 2022, Barba: Storia di come sono nato due volte: a graphic novel about a trans guy’s exploration of his true identity;

Leo Ortolani, 2018, Cinzia: a graphic novel about Cinzia, a trans woman, who navigates the trouble of her identity without losing her sense of humor;

Luca De Santis, Sara Colaone, 2008, In Italia sono tutti maschi: a compelling graphic novel about the confino of gay people under Fascism;

Luana Rigolli, 2022, L’isola degli arrusi, a photographic book about the confino of gay men under Fascism;

Cristina Ali Farah, 2007, Madre piccola: novel from Somali backgrounds about the experience of navigating an Italo-Somali identity. 

Queer Graphics: Fumetti LGBTQIA+ Italiani: a project from TORCH at Oxford that has interviews with LGBTQIA+ graphic novelists in Italian with English subtitles; 

Gabriella Ghermandi, 2015, Regina di fiori e di perle: a novel focused on the colonization of Ethiopia.

Igiaba Scego, 2005, Salsicce: a short story about community, identity, and belonging;

Music

Gender Identity: A playlist of Italian artists that are LGBTQIA+ or otherwise experiment with gender fluidity.

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