""""CONTR(A)ZIONE""""", women & gay protest in Bologna :::: 7/8 FEBRUARY 2004 The control of bodies, desires and choices : TWO DAYS OF FIGHT against hetero/patriarchal Italian laws that impose a normative-natural procreation

SATURDAY 7 FEBRUARY

Sala di Palazzo dei Notai – CDD (via de’ Pignattari n.2)
9.30 Welcome, tea & friendly atmosphere.
Info.point- info.lounge: open during the two days of event.

10-15: Workshop Cre-Attivista.
From demonstrations to silk strings, new forms and practices of gender mobilization.
This workshop wants to generate cre-aCtive moments during the manifestation of Saturday afternoon.
Participate: Bologna network against the PMA law, Sexyshock (BO),
A/matrix (Rome), Pompomqueers (Rome), QueeringSapienza (Rome), AntagonismoGay (BO).

12-14 Workshop on Communication.
Laboratory for a critical analysis of the mainstream information on law 1514.
The final product will be presented during the sunday 8th seminar on “Female affairs and motherhood”

Sala dello Zodiaco (via Zamboni 13):
10-12 Seminar: A law for who?
Let’s discover what fantastic intrigues and tricks are used to discipline procreation through laws, market mechanisms, hetero and/or patriarchal ideologies and new definitions of humanity.
How do the new laws impose a normative-natural procreation and structure/chain social relations, desires and shared choices?
*Coordination: Grazia Negrini (Orlando association, Women Documentation centre, Bologna).
* Interventions: Milli Virgilio - MariaGrazia Campari (GIUdIT, Italian lawyers). Sergio Lo Giudice (ArciGay, un PACS avanti, Bologna). Marcella di Folco (MIT). Aitanga Giraldi (CGIL responsabile ufficio Pari Opportunità). AntagonismoGay (Bologna).

12:30-15:00: Seminar: Do we like chimerae? But how much does it cost?
The control of bodies, desires and choices happens also through medicals (often forced and unnecessary). Most wanted territories of conquest are the female biological phases (e.g. the menopause), or even the orgasm (hystery?). Can access to biotechnology and scientific knowledge guarantee autonomous choices on our body?
* Coordinate:Sexyshock (Bologna).
* Interventions: Elena del Grosso (Orlando Association, Round table of women on Bioethics, Bologna). Nino Guglielmino (Clinica Hera, Catania). Alessandra Cerioli (LILA). Dott. Angelo Aiello (psycologist psycoterapeutist, ass. Amica Cicogna). Collettivo Laser (Rome).

Workshop on Open Publishing
Other ways of access, from bodies to cyberspace. Participation and sharing through the net. A passage through gender categories and websites present on the net.

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NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
Against law 1514 on PMA (Medical Assisted Procreation)
Concentration 15.30 p.zza del Nettuno, Bologna
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SUNDAY 8 FEBRUARY

Sala Felsinea - Palazzo D’accursio - (P.zza Maggiore).
11-13.30: Seminar: Female affairs and motherhood.
From the symbolic to the real. Various feminisms and various generations confront each other. Imaginary, practices, politics and desires.
* Coordination: Barbara Romagnoli (Carta/Cantieri Sociali).
* Partecipation: Sexyshock (Bologna), Sconvegno (Milan), ArciLesbica nazionale, Tatiana Olivieri (association Educate on freedom), A/matrix (Rome), Laura Fantone (doctorandus at the New York University, expert on gender and science).

14.30-17 Plenarium.
Conclusions, projects and possible political practices for a Calendar of actions on PMA.