Affidamento/Entrustment
<p><em>Affidamento</em>, or entrustment, is one of the most important and difficult practices enacted by the Milan Women’s Bookstore Collective, founded in 1975. Rejecting a narrative of equality and sisterhood, the Milan group sees difference, or disparity, as one of the most generative qualities of the personal and political relationships between women. Looking to historical examples of relationships of <em>affidamento</em>, and discussing how entrustment operates in our own lives, this session explores how practices of writing and narration give form to these exchanges and open up new spaces for feminist politics in the everyday…</p>
Editors: Cecilia Berkovic, Yaniya Lee, Annie MacDonell, Gabrielle Moser, Zinnia Naqvi, Leila Timmins, cheyanne turions, Shellie Zhang
Contributors: Cecilia Berkovic, Teresa de Lauretis, Alex Martinis Roe, Moyra Davey
Designer: Cecilia Berkovic
Part of: EMILIA-AMALIA