Claudia Torrisi is an Italian freelance journalist focused on social issues such as migration and civil rights. She writes monthly features for openDemocracy 50.50. Follow her on Twitter: @clatorrisi.
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Published in: 50.50How Verona became a ‘model city’ for far right and ultra-Catholic alliancesFar right and religious conservative movements captured the ‘city of love’ years ago. After national successes, they’re aiming at European victories.
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Published in: 50.50These women are demanding their rights from inside Rome’s occupied buildingsPrecarious labour and housing conditions have pushed many to squat Rome’s empty buildings, living in fear of eviction and homelessness.
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Published in: 50.50Italy’s new government is bad news for women and minoritiesThere will be hard times ahead in Italy, unless you are a heterosexual, cisgendered, white man. The new families minister opposes abortion, immigration and LGBTI rights.
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Published in: 50.50Same-sex marriage has become a political football in Italy's electionsThe so-called centre-right coalition is talking tough against Italy’s LGBTQI and immigrant communities, attacking basic rights in the name of defending the “traditional family.”
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Published in: 50.50How the Italian media have helped CasaPound ‘glamourise’ fascismSome reporters have dangerously framed this violent movement and its female leaders as ‘beautiful,’ ‘clean-faced,’ and attractive to voters. RU
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Published in: 50.50"The first prejudice to fight was mine": Italy's only publicly trans police officerItaly is one of Europe's most transphobic countries, and its laws – and rates of violence – reflect that.