July 4, 1980: The First Trans Protest in Italy

Elia A.G. Arfini (a.k.a. AG) is founding member of CRAAAZI (Centro di Ricerca e Archivio Autonomo transfemminista queer “Alessandro Zijno“ [Transfeminist Autonomous Research Centre and Archive “Alessandro Zjino”]) in Bologna and researcher with the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan. With colleagues in CRAAAZI, through research, archival, and translation practices, they work to develop critiques of reappropriation and valorization of grassroots knowledge produced by political and social movements, especially (trans)feminist movements. AG has published a book on transgender studies, Scrivere il sesso (Writing the Sex, 2007), and several book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals and coedited with Cristian Lo Iacono Canone inverso: Antologia della teoria queer (The Inverse Canon: A Queer Anthology, 2012). They conduct research in the fields of consumer culture, feminist and queer theory, and disability studies with particular interest in queer theories of value, affective archives, and resistance to gatekeeping in the trans field. They can be reached at elia.arfini@unimi.it.