In the beginning it was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezyoung star of the Democrats and possible challenger to Donald Trump to the next presidential elections: «Woke 1.0 was crazy». He later arrived Giuseppe Contedapper Italian emulator and aspiring returning prime minister: «This cultural direction has become an all-encompassing doctrine». From New York to Volturara Appula, they decree the failure of the now twenty-year obsession: rights, freedom, equality, cancel culture. A mess into which the left has gotten everything involved: from oppressed women to marginalized transsexuals. He hoped to incite the people against conservatives and sovereignists. He discovered that the poor devils are obsessed with salaries and bills.
Political correctness was insanely correct, in short. And what do we do now? In Italy very little, it seems. In the name of Wokism, regions and cities continue to spend merrily. Besides Elly Schleinsecretary of PD and hypothetical contender in the primaries, does not take a position. It needs to be understood. His recantation would be particularly bold and insincere. But many rainbow standard-bearers also continue with their aim. Starting from the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieriand that of Genoa, Silvia Salis. One of the two could even become the federation of the wide field, to avoid the bloody battle between Elly and Giuseppi.
The bill in the red regions: millions pouring in between Umbria and Emilia-Romagna
Death to the woke. In the red regions, however, it seems anything but agonizing. Indeed: he is alive and fighting together with us. In Umbria they have just closed the applications for «Orizzonti di Parità»: 155 thousand euros will be distributed to deserving projects, to prevent gender discrimination. But the most generous remains theEmilia-Romagnaimpregnable fiefdom of Piddino. Two months ago he announced that he had allocated 440 thousand euros to 35 projects to promote the “culture of peace” and “global citizenship”. A week later it raises sumptuously: 2.7 million to counter stereotypes.
The council led by Michele de Pascalein perfect continuity with its illustrious predecessor Stefano Bonaccinitherefore decides: it is necessary to remove “every form of prejudicial inequality”. The program is certainly vast, General De Gaulle would have said, but the amount seems adequate: between past and future appropriations, it reaches seven million in four years. Scrolling through the list of one hundred and sixty-one initiatives already funded there are “Genderful” and “Self-determined trans spaces”. Or the Rainbow Theatre: 32 thousand euros to educate children, adolescents, families and teachers about gender differences. While another 24 thousand euros were used to enhance “non-binary identities” in sport, also promoting “alias memberships”.
The expenses in Bologna and Genoa: from the 290 thousand euro agreement to the maxi contract for the consultant
Staying in the area, it certainly deserves extensive mention Municipality of Bolognaone of the undisputed rainbow capitals. It is led by another fervent Schleinian: Matteo Lepore. Next year he is confident of being reconfirmed, with the enthusiastic support of the secretary and the woke universe. His council has even signed a 290 thousand euro LGBT Pact with the liveliest associations in the sector, contributing to similar initiatives: from the LGBTQIA+ shelter to the Apag Help Desk, a cryptic acronym which stands for Gender Affirmation Path Accompaniment. But the intentions, despite Conti’s retraction, are much more ambitious. The Municipality also approved the guidelines “to integrate the gender perspective into the planning of the city”. And now the Bologna Democratic Party is asking to put those precepts into practice. Construction sites, parks, construction: urban planning in Bologna must also be redesigned to mitigate injustices. On the other hand, shortly after his election, Lepore had municipal employees distribute a woke manual entitled: Words that make the difference. The thirty pages urged employees to adapt their dated language to modern times. Therefore, the unacceptable masculine aimed at the fairer sex is banned. Make way for councillors, councilors and ministers.
Here: Salis, a very aggressive Genoese colleague, does not compromise on this. Anyone who tried to appeal to her and declined inopportunely was struck down. She is “the mayor”. A predestined one: sooner or later, it seems that she will have to lead the heterogeneous progressives. And if Giuseppi disavows, she raises. Let us then retrace his irresistible rise. She is proclaimed national leader while the balloting is still underway in the Superba. We immediately learn that, in due respect to the fight against patriarchy, the son bears only the mother’s surname. He therefore announces the birth of an LGBTQIA+ municipal office, with branches in every municipality, to also facilitate transgender tourism and alias identity. The strategic task is thus entrusted to a very faithful, Ilaria Gibelliwith a contract of 162 thousand euros for three years. The consultant immediately stood out with a lively post on social media, later deleted, claiming that “Catholic parties are the most homophobic, transphobic, racist, Islamophobic, chauvinist parties”. Extensive controversy ensues.
The rent discounts in Milan and the 8.5 million in the capital between exhibitions and festivals
However, his second mandate is coming to an end Beppe Sala in Milan. Already in 2019 he was portrayed wearing rainbow socks, to celebrate Gay pride. This year too he has decided not to miss the parade, promising a legacy of the ambitious “city of rights”. A rainbow enclave, in short. The Rainbow center the Museum of Cultures will be born in the former Ansaldo on the trendy Via Tortona, next to the Mudec. In May the Municipality published a notice to grant the almost thousand meters of the former steelworks with a substantial discount: the rent, for nine years and renewable, will be just under 40 thousand euros instead of 117 thousand. The mega center will not only be a meeting place, but will provide reception, orientation and legal assistance.
Even Gualtieri, the mayor of the capital, does not give up. Creative Rome 365 it is a rich two-year program for culture worth 8.54 million euros. The unavoidable criteria include civil rights, gender policies and interculturality. Sixty thousand euros were used, for example, to finance the film festival dedicated to colonial and postcolonial feminisms. One hundred thousand euros then went to Drag me up, a festival that celebrates the fight against transphobia, patriarchy and chauvinism. And another sixty were used to organize another themed festival: Queer picture.
Spinaceto and patriarchal cement: one and a half million for gender urban planning
Like Bologna, even the capital is experimenting with “gender urban planning”. At the Capitol they want to rethink spaces, services and mobility in a more fluid way. In the genre, of course. Starting from queers and “people with a migratory background”, who “experience the city with greater difficulties in terms of safety, mobility and access to services”. The arduous and onerous task of reviewing the chaotic metropolis has also been entrusted to an old glory of the Italian left: Giovanna Melandrithe stainless ex-minister. Human foundation, chaired by her, wrote a notebook entitled The perspective of gender urban planning in Rome, then published by Campidoglio.
It is urgent to redesign as soon as possible. Enough of cities dominated by the “breadwinner”, or the rough head of the family who leaves home every morning to earn a loaf of bread. As feminist geographer Jane Darke teaches, in modern cities “patriarchy is written in stone.” Everything was built with the dominant male in mind. Understood? That “gender binary” is unacceptable. It is no longer sufficient, for example, to design a square. It is necessary to question ourselves. Who crosses it? What is his identity? How do you feel represented? Clearances, sidewalks, greenery. We need to rethink everything. The first experiment will be in Spinaceto, a free-range Roman suburb, where an area will be redeveloped with one and a half million euros.
After all, what is more patriarchal than concrete? The woke will also be moribund. In the capital, however, he continues to do very well.
