Roberta Scalise

Based in Turin, Italy, Roberta is a feminist media fellow on openDemocracy’s Tracking the Backlash project, focusing on gender equality and feminist media stories. She has a degree in philosophy and a master’s in bioethics, and collaborates with the Italian Bioethics Council as a journalist. She also writes about feminism and inclusion for national newspapers in Italy. Follow her on Twitter (@RobertaScalise1).

Roberta Scalise

Why this Italian MP launched a book-long protest against patriarchy

Laura Boldrini has been fighting for women’s rights and against sexism for years. Her new book demands both outrage and cultural change

By Claire Provost and Roberta Scalise

/ 1 Feb 2022

Why this Italian MP launched a book-long protest against patriarchy

‘We were revolutionaries’: Angelo Pezzana, founder of Italy’s first LGBT movement

Gay Italians gained a voice in the early 1970s thanks to FUORI!, founded 50 years ago in Turin – though struggles for rights continue

By Roberta Scalise

/ 23 Dec 2021

‘We were revolutionaries’: Angelo Pezzana, founder of Italy’s first LGBT movement

Include women and Indigenous people in the fight against the climate crisis

‘We are the people who are being killed by climate change: this is environmental genocide,’ say Indigenous activists at COP26

By Roberta Scalise

/ 12 Nov 2021

Include women and Indigenous people in the fight against the climate crisis

How journalists around the world are taking action to help Afghan colleagues

From Italy to India, media workers have launched new initiatives to support colleagues from Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in August

By Roberta Scalise

/ 13 Oct 2021

How journalists around the world are taking action to help Afghan colleagues