Porpora Marcasciano, a prominent figure in trans activism in Italy, allowed herself to be photographed in her daily life by her friend Lina Pallotta. Pallotta has now published this intimate and poetic portrait in the book “Porpora,” a visual embodiment of the slogan “The personal is political.”
A militant, writer, and sociologist, Porpora Marcasciano (born in 1957) has been involved since the 1970s in the struggle for the recognition of the rights of trans individuals. She was particularly active within the MIT Movimento Identità Trans [Trans Identity Movement], long the sole group representing this cause.
