The Queer Black Italian Experience

In this chapter of MBQMQB, done in collaboration with Converse we zoom in on Italian society as we explore the realities of being Black and Queer while growing up and/or living in a highly Eurocentric, heteronormative social landscape. With a small sample of individuals from across the country, we use mediums of photography and video to frame each experience as blossoming oases of innovation and light in a progressively parched desert. Each of which are inherently linked to form a Black Queerhood. This project signifies the building of this framework, the joining of hands and collective sharing of experiences with the aim of highlighting the beauty of the Black Queer Italian Experience while also voicing the racism, queerphobia, homophobia and transphobia that so often comes with it.

In particular, this instalment of the series — The Roundtable — things take the form of a conversation as we create a physical manifestation of the originally virtual safe space with a roundtable discussion with seven Black Queer Italian people who discuss whatever it is we feel the need to in an effort to take back the mic and take up the space we deserve.