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).
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureWhy this Italian MP launched a book-long protest against patriarchyLaura Boldrini has been fighting for women’s rights and against sexism for years. Her new book demands both outrage...
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Published in: 50.50: Feature‘We were revolutionaries’: Angelo Pezzana, founder of Italy’s first LGBT movementGay Italians gained a voice in the early 1970s thanks to FUORI!, founded 50 years ago in Turin – though struggles...
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Published in: 50.50Include 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
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Published in: 50.50: ExplainerHow journalists around the world are taking action to help Afghan colleaguesFrom Italy to India, media workers have launched new initiatives to support colleagues from Afghanistan since the...