PRATO-FIRENZE This year, in the OFF Calendar of the VII edition of L’Eredità delle Donne Festival (held in the Tuscan capital, at Manifattura Tabacchi, from 22nd to 24th November 2024) there is also the Creative Residence of CCT (based in Prato) designed to offer hospitality in exchange for one story on the feminist future or rather on how it is possible to imagine (therefore create) an increasingly feminist future starting from a reflection on the territories we inhabit and cross as citizens and travellers. And with this small satellite event in full CCT style and so much emotion, we finally go online with the website [www.gioialibera.it] of our project gioia libera tuttə, a dream that blossomed exactly one year ago to map and tell about the Feminist Italy!

Who are the #CCTravellers? “Creative Curious Travellers” – writers, journalists, bloggers, photographers, instagramers, filmmakers, illustrators, artists, etc. but above all passionate people! – who love to explore the world and share STORIES, to publish on our web guidezine CCT-SeeCity.com!

 

What do we offer them? As always, hospitality in exchange for one story! Selected candidates will be guests at the Creative Residence of CCT in Prato, Tuscany, for 5 days (4 nights) from 21 to 25 November 2024. Hospitality includes: accommodation, welcome kit, logistical assistance.

 

In this case, the CALL is promoted by gioia libera tuttə [www.gioialibera.it] and so it addresses in particular to (over 18) FEMINIST people, invited to partecipate in the Festival L’Eredità delle Donne 2024 (Firenze/Florence) and then describe in an article how it is possible to imagine (and therefore create) an increasingly feminist future starting from a reflection on the territories we inhabit and cross as citizens and travellers.

 

We have choses this theme taking inspiration from the title of the #EDD2024 edition of the Festival, namely FUTURE: “Future, in Italian, are the women who will come and Future, in English, is the future in their hands, which we look to with confidence, despite everything”.

 

To apply for the CALL, open from 24th October, just fill out the FORM below [which can be also found at this link] by 7th November 2024. Those selected will have to confirm their participation and independently organize the return trip; hosted people (max 3) will share their experience on their social media and then in a long-form article, a STORY on the “feminist future” to be delivered to the CCTeam (our editorial staff) so that it can be published by the end of the year on cct-seecity.com e gioialibera.it

[…] These movements and many, many others are already enacting visions of the feminist city. These visions ask us to think about new ways of organizing paid work, care work, and social reproduction. Importantly, they do not rely on the heterosexual nuclear family as the default basis for organizing these relationships. They do not rely on family or men as sources of economic and physical protection for women, although they recognize the importance of allowing people to create and cultivate their own kinship structures. They recognize women’s autonomy but also our connection to our friends, our communities, our movements. They call for solidarity with all those who want to feel safe in their homes, on the streets, in the bathroom, at work, and at school. They recognize the intersection of gender with many other systems of privilege and oppression, rejecting a feminism in which elevating the status of privileged white women is the mark of success. The feminist city does not need a project to be real. I don’t want a feminist super-planner to tear everything down and start over. But if we start to understand that the city is set up to support a particular way of organizing society—across gender, race, sexuality, and more—we can start to look for new possibilities. There are different ways to use the urban spaces we have. There are endless options for creating alternative spaces. There are little feminist cities popping up everywhere in neighborhoods, if only we could recognize them and nurture them. The feminist city is an ambitious project, without a “master” plan, that actually resists the call of “mastery”. The feminist city is an ongoing experiment in living differently, better, and more justly in an urban world. – From the conclusion of the book The Feminist City: The Struggle for Space in a World Designed by Men (Verso Books, 2021) by Canadian writer Leslie Kern, feminist geographer and director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Mount Allison University.

An article:

The city of the future is feminist – inGenere, 2022

A non-song:

Future Feminism from the album Cut the World (2012) by Antony and the Johnsons